User experience with Anki
Anki is a treasure tool for tapping your brain potential when it comes to memorization, recall, spaced repetition and organizing a huge volume of content. Anki can be a great learning tool if the students practice a few things with it. Creating their cards, organizing the decks, and sharing their decks with fellow students can hugely benefit them. It contains different features like Synchronization, which keeps the cards synced on different devices for the user. Its users get different options for customization of cards; they can set in different media options and control the display options. It allows optimizing multiple decks (set of cards) easily and keeps the important data safe. Medical or law students usually get voluminous material to study in schools. Many students look forward to Anki to aid their studies. It can be used by simply integrating flashcards into their study routine. Anki is associated with superior performance as it has high regard for many students who’ve used it as a study method in comparison to others. What lacks in Anki is that its
“Time-consuming, confusing and outdated for an internet user who is constantly exposed to other productivity apps based on mobile and cloud technologies.”
User experience with Supermemo
Supermemo is considered a pioneer of Incremental Reading. This method is an innovative reading method which helps you gradually build up your knowledge in summarized iterations. It seems a combination of appropriate grouping, chunking and summation. Imagine you have to digest a large piece of information and you have a mechanism to create portions or readable subsets of the large information set.
Supermemo also uses spaced repetition of flashcards system for language learning, claiming its effectiveness for learning a new language. Spending few minutes daily on SuperMemo is enough to learn a great number of new words or facts. Their system takes an optimal time to repeat the content.
Just like Anki, it can be used through mobile or computer. Learners can use the existing courses in Supermemo or create their own to learn. Its users can set up the material in a way that they want and keep it at their own pace. Supermemo is great at spaced repetitions incremental reading and memorization. What lacks in SuperMemo is
- A few reviews about Supermemo.
- A very steep learning curve.
- Poor flexibility for integration with existing learning mediums.
- Its primary focus is incremental reading which is requires practice and perservance.