While the decision of Skritter to only allow adding while enabling all active practice methods in the account settings helps to keep progress in a list consistent I actually hate it.

You sit there type with your pen in hand hoping it is just a few prompts to get back to writing. It gets annoying so you remove the tablet from lap, put away the pen and the next prompt is writing again. If you put it away immediately you just get two prompts and then you are back to writing (argh!!!).

Can I disable writing in the account temporarily, enable just writing and go through a list again to add the writing at a slower pace or do I lose anything in history, progress when switching like this to get previous Skritter behaviour?

I actually had no issue with the spread of reading,tones and definition vs. writing as I learn writing much slower but it allowed me to use Skritter for the general vocabulary learning with its great easy interface. Do I really have to fight with Anki to set it up?

Any other way to at least add very quickly with few changes and then go to review mode which on it's own is great?

How do you cope with the changes?

I'm not sure if it would screw anything up, but one possibility would be to click the add button (the green plus sign) while you're studying and add a whole bunch of words all at once. Then switch to reviewing, say, definitions and get them down to zero due. Repeat for readings and writings. When they're all down to zero, reenable adding and repeat the cycle. I've been doing this recently and it seems to work.

James

Yes, there's James's way. You can also disable writing, add through a list once, then re-enable it and go through the list again and everything will work fine. You'll have to make sure to go to the list page, click "study settings", and set yourself back to where you were. So it's not the quickest way. You can leave all four parts on when you go through the second time; it'll just add whatever's missing (writing in this case).

Thanks for your hints, I will try them. Seems there is always a way in Skritter.
Yeah and of course I don't hate it :-)