I'm often thinking, that it would be great, if there were some option to make study interface more ascetic, to get rid off the distractions.

While I generally like queue bar, time ticker and these lovely quotes (thanks to whom I discovered three cool TV series - thanks you, guys!) sometimes they are to big distraction. Instead of studying I start to watch the clock and how much reviews are there left (this is lethal to the motivation! You start to care only about finishing the task, not the task itself) or flick through quotes. Then it would be nice to have some lights-out option, switch to full-screen and concentrate on 汉字 :)

I see what you're saying. I don't think we'll get to something like this any time soon, but if you wanted it now, you could play with making a custom CSS stylesheet for yourself to hide various elements that you didn't care about. (And if you want the quotes at the bottom hidden, turn off the eccentric flavor in your account settings.)

Hmm... this may be a good idea. Also, while using Opera I can try to delete from code anything apart from learning space.

(I can't turn off eccentric flavor, because I'd lose these cool various "that's right" exclamations - and I shall never let that happen :>)

I know what you mean entirely
here's code that will work with chromes "personalized web" extention that will hide the timer, review bars, hide the quotes at the bottom, make the reading and rune size really large (so you can make the zoom on the page tiny making the canvas tiny while allowing readings to be visible, and font changes
and hides the english reading

can play around with it more

div#word_defn{color: #FFFFFF;}
div#original_recipe{visibility:hidden;}
div#time{visibility:hidden;}
div#to_review_bar{visibility:hidden;}

span#word_rune_value{font-size: 80px; font-family:"衡山毛筆フォント";}
span#word_rdng_value{font-size: 30px; font-family:"Hiragino Kaku Gothic","ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3";}

as far as night time, if you are on windows you can load up the magnifying glass, and turn the color settings on invert for the screen :)

Just a way to hide the 'number of reviews pending' and/or the time spent on this session would be great.

While sometimes they are good motivators, other times they make skrittering needlessly frustrating. As Noqa points out, they lead to focusing on the wrong thing.

Talafar, these are the CSS lines that would do it, from the above example:

div#time{visibility:hidden;}
div#to_review_bar{visibility:hidden;}

You'd just have to toss that into whatever custom CSS solution exists for your browser so that it's used on http://www.skritter.com/study/*

Google should be able to tell you how to do it without much fuss. Hope this helps.

This seems like a good idea, but for me, the time and items aren't discouraging - what would be most useful is hiding the ever so tempting 'progress' and 'forum' buttons! I can get rid of other distractions using F11, but hiding the entire menu bar at the top would stop me wandering off... for example to here!

Basically I'd keep everything that's inside the white box on the study page, and white-out the rest.


P.S. Surely div#word_defn{color: #FFFFFF;} would cause a few problems for writing prompts?!

If you want to see it sometimes, you can have things appear again on hover with the :hover CSS selector:

div#word_defn { color: white; }
div#word_defn:hover { color: black; }

Catherine, what about moving the top of the browser window off the top of the screen? Then you won't see any of the top links when you don't want to be distracted by them.

Thanks for the fast response, I'll try your suggestion.

You can't scrool the browser lower, if there's nothing more down and you're in fullscreen mode.

But I found it works "bearable" if you delete everything from to . It's pretty analigned, but helps a bit with distractions. Still I think such distraction-free interface should be an option to trigger.
(I'm thinking something like lightbulb here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/591504)