New features and plans for the future

2009年 10月 1日 by Peter | 11 comments

Dear Speedanki users,

My name is Péter Kasza and I’m jointly working on developing the site with Vili. As the first post to the blog states, there have been a few modifications to the site, mainly fixing bugs and improving security.

I am working in my free time on improving the site, so sometimes new features may take a while. I’ll try to implement the easy-to-do ones first so that you don’t have to wait months for something new.

The first visible change I have made concerns the list view. I have added buttons for toggling the kanji and hiragana for each entry. This way you can quickly skim through a large number of cards and ‘flip’ only the ones you didn’t recognize. I personally use it for practicing writing kanji.

Current plans for the site include:

  • randomization of the cards
  • keyboard navigation
  • personal comments for each card
  • editable example text
  • displaying stroke order
  • kanji to hiragana transcription based on the learned cards

Please feel free to contact us with your ideas on improving the site.

Thank you all for using speedanki!

  1. martin’s avatar

    martin on 2009年 10月 2日 at 05時 09分

    very good ideas and keep up the good work, there is also something that i find really helpful, its creates your own filters not just mastered review , if possible might be a good idea, dont know

  2. Jamie MacG’s avatar

    Jamie MacG on 2009年 10月 2日 at 17時 50分

    aye man! All good stuff! It’s like the things from the kanjikuma site, but it’ll have 2 kyu too! So I’ll be happy ^_^

    and yea martin, sounds like a good idea!

    Thanks Peter!

    Jamie Macg

  3. ken’s avatar

    ken on 2009年 10月 3日 at 09時 21分

    thank you to all those who maintain and continue to improve this site! I love how easy and effortless this site makes for studying kanji.

  4. Josh’s avatar

    Josh on 2009年 10月 4日 at 13時 40分

    Please get shuffle in as soon as you can, but thanks for offering this site!

  5. Joe’s avatar

    Joe on 2009年 10月 5日 at 02時 06分

    Hey guys,

    Good to hear you lot are back!

  6. Sumiko’s avatar

    Sumiko on 2009年 10月 5日 at 05時 09分

    It looks like you are missing examples for approximately the last 800 of the ikkyuu kanji. Would it be helpful for us to submit example sentences? Or is it just some kind of bug?

  7. Peter’s avatar

    Peter on 2009年 10月 6日 at 16時 16分

    Sumiko: Yes they’re missing. I am thinking about implementing user submitted examples, but parts of the site is very badly written and it is hard to make modifications.

    Josh: The randomization feature is almost done, but there is a bug somewhere and I can’t get it to work properly. (Note that I’m not just picking a random card. I’ve implemented this feature using random permutations, so the cards remain in order after being shuffled.)

  8. Joe’s avatar

    Joe on 2009年 10月 7日 at 19時 51分

    Hey Vili,

    It’s Joe here, the owner of http://kanjikuma.com

    Thanks for checking out my site, I really love your site too, it really helped me prepare for JLPT 2. And of course you can see kanjikuma is totally influenced by speedanki!! Just out of curiosity can you let us know why were the original forum and blog taken down?

    Good to know you guys are back in town though!

  9. Vili’s avatar

    Vili on 2009年 10月 8日 at 13時 28分

    Hi Joe,

    Thanks for your message. The old forum was not maintained for over a year and was in pretty bad shape in terms of spam, so I thought it easier to start over. As for the old blog, are you referring to http://www.njuku.com/ ? It’s still online, it’s just not been updated since 2006 so I removed the link.

    Cheers!

  10. Matthew’s avatar

    Matthew on 2009年 10月 9日 at 05時 13分

    Haha, if I had only seen this post before my comment on the most recent blog. I suggested a randomization… i.e. a shuffling option. Haha

  11. Joe’s avatar

    Joe on 2009年 10月 12日 at 04時 57分

    Thanks Vili,

    That is indeed the blog I was thinking of, sorry I should have bookmarked the address. I really really liked the blog, I used to print one out everyday! It’s a shame that no one is updating that blog anymore.