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Studying list without reading

Noqa   December 15th, 2011 9:44a.m.

I recently started to study radicals word list. But I don't see much sense in learning to read them; it's quite easy, but not something (I think) I would ever use.

Can I somehow ban reading and tone for whole list?

scott   December 15th, 2011 10:30a.m.

Studying specific parts for a given list is on my to do. But site related development has been put on hold while we put all our time into the iOS app, so this feature won't appear soon.

If you'd like I'll write a quick script to handle this for you and ban the readings and tones for all those items in that list, since there's simply no efficient way to do this on the site for the time being.

Noqa   December 15th, 2011 3:59p.m.

I'd be very grateful, if you would :)
Thanks very much!

scott   December 16th, 2011 11:21a.m.

And done!

Noqa   December 16th, 2011 2:26p.m.

That's great! Thanks very much.

mrpoo   December 29th, 2011 12:33p.m.

Thats a great help for me too, thanks.

Dennis   December 29th, 2011 1:31p.m.

I would like to be able to study just parts of a list too. In studying a Heisig list, I only want writing on. For now I just change "Review these parts only" to writing only. This works for me for now, but the setting is not permanent and turns adding off which is fine. I also still see the definitions which is a distraction if you follow the Heisig method. I have a separate copy of the Heisig List that only contains the Lessons I've more or less completed.

I'm anther one who would like a shuffle feature on lists, but for that I can always create a scratch list and shuffle it.

scott   December 29th, 2011 1:49p.m.

A shuffle feature? What would that do exactly?

If you want I can run the same script on your account for that list, Dennis.

Dennis   December 29th, 2011 4:11p.m.

Scott, I would be very grateful for a version of the Traditional Heisig list to be used with only writing checked. Should I make a copy of it for the script?

As far as shuffling, I suppose SRS puts a list into some kind of random order and makes shuffling unnecessary for the most part.

With Heisig shuffling is important because characters are grouped into lessons where the characters share one or more primitives. It's to prevent remembering characters with a clue given by where they occur in the list. Lesson 2 contains 唱,晶 and 品, for instance. Using the Scratchpad to shuffle the cards is fine with me.

scott   January 2nd, 2012 3:06p.m.

The SRS already does some shuffling for exactly that reason. Anytime an item is scheduled, it's being placed a little at random so that they aren't showing up in the same order as before.

Link me to the list you want to have only study the writing for and I'll ban the parts for all the words in that list. Remember though that you can't study those parts at all anymore, if they're in any other list for example, unless you unban them.

Dennis   January 2nd, 2012 3:49p.m.

The list is Remembering Traditional Hanzi 1 (Remix) made by Dennis. I made it editable by Anyone. The URL is

http://www.skritter.com/vocab/list?list=142090873

I'm not sure what you mean by linking you to it.

Dennis   January 4th, 2012 6:51p.m.

Thanks, Scott

I see what you mean about the characters being banned in any list I reference. That's actually OK. I'll just unban them in another list when I get back to it or unban in My Words.

scott   January 5th, 2012 11:00a.m.

Whoops, I just noticed the first run didn't actually go through everything; it broke halfway through. I'm running the script again to make sure it goes from beginning to end, just so you know.

scott   January 5th, 2012 3:31p.m.

The script finished successfully, so you should be all set.

Dennis   January 5th, 2012 4:00p.m.

There still seem to be a lot of characters that are not banned except for writing.

scott   January 6th, 2012 10:12a.m.

The script was banning simplified, not traditional. Running it again and getting those too.

Dennis   January 6th, 2012 11:49a.m.

Thanks again, Scott.

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