Okay, I am trying to make this post as succinct as possible!

I study at University and China, 2 classes a day out of 3 different classes-speaking,lisening,comprehension. From those, I get about 40 new words per text. THis works out at around 80-90 per week per class.

At the moment I pick and choose the moost important (hard to tell!) from the lists and dd them to ANKI. I had no more than 20 and no less than half per class a day. For example, speaking is 4 days a week so I would end up with 80 new words in a week. It endd up just too muchto add to Anki. By the time I got round to reviewing aword again it's long been forgotten.

Do you think I should add ALL the vocab to SKRITTER or just import those which I've added to Anki?

I think I just want to add Comprehension vocab for now as this is the clas where writing is required.

COnfused about how to proceed, any help/advice would be great!

How long have you been studying? Back in my second year I started adding everything I learned to Anki. That got old in about half a year.
Now, when I go back and look back at the words I added at that time, I must say that most of it not something I have had to use in daily life since... nor academia, for that matter.
So I would say, yes, do pick and choose. There may be many words from the glossary that are there in order to drive the story, rather than being the object of the teaching itself. That said, 100 words a week can be done, especially if the lists already are on Skritter (this depends on your textbook), and several words will share characters, so studying the glossary in its entirety will help you in regards to remembering the individual characters better.

Bottom line is that you should just study them all if you have the time (and if you just started, and don't have other classes, now IS the time when you've got the time!). But don't be afraid of blocking the leeches, if they get too annoying. You will probably learn them eventually.

Thanks so much for your input.

I think I will attempt to add everything from my comprehensive/writing book into skritter and see how it goes. I will probably keep picking and choosing from ANKI. If I feel I need more words, I can just go back and add more. I've marked every word added to ANKI in my textbook (small orange dot!) so I know what's in and what's not!

My textbook isn't on the skritter list but I guess I can publish my list for all.

p.s. I've been studying at University for 2 weeks. Before that around 5 months for around 5-6 hours a week - that includes 1.5 to 3 hours with a Chinese tutor. At my University there is Beg1, beg2, pre-int, int1,2, adv1,2. I am Beginner 2.

i am in the same situation, studying at university.

i dont even use flashcards. ALL the words i need and i want to learn i add in skritter and then i study them here.
skritter is the best tool since you have the spaced repitition here. this makes sure you will keep all the characters in your brain.

so add ALL to skritter and invest more time here. forget anki and flashcards is my advice.

to give you an impression of the time you will have to invest per day: 1,5 to 2 hours a day.

But Anki *is* spaced repetition. And Skritter is flashcards, isn't it?

ya, that is why i like skritter.

when you look at an older thread from me i also showed a way how to make your own flashcards and then import them into another flashcard app. i personally dont like anki.

Anki is a flashcard program that uses spaced repeition.

On it's own, I find ANKI to be a very effective tool at developing recognition of characters. It's super easy to use and I find I can work through characters a lot quicker. I guess this is mostly because there is no production aspect to it. Skritter also a host of other cool features Anki doesn't.
I can, however, take Anki with me on my phone free of charge. Very useful if you have 10 minutes to kill.

I think I will stick with my plan above for now. Add all 'writing class' words to Skritter. Pick and choose listening/sopeaking class words into ANKI. Perhaps I will eventually export those to skritter, perhaps not.

Thanks for the input!

chris, just out of curiosity: how much time do you spend on writing/ flashcards as a fulltime student?

problem with anki and the other flashcard apps on the iphone is that the characters are too small for my eyes. no fun to look at.
i stick with skritter. and skritter is also super if you have to kill ten mins waiting ...

I add 20 flashcards for each chapter in the book - these I judge to be the key words/characters/structures. That ends up usually between 100 - 120 words a week for all classes I guess. Adding 20 characters takes me about 5 minutes.

For some reason, If you export from skritter into ANKI the characters are really small - at least I found this on my phone. However, if you input them yourself they are bigger. You can also adjust the size of the top card / character.

I actually almost bought the new-ish Google tablet. Then I probably would have soley used skritter (just through wifi) but then I found out that FLASH are withdrawing from Anroid devices and not making further developments. As skritter uses flash then it be unuseable eventually - so I was led to believe.

Skritter should switch to HTML5 or develop an Android app. Untill then I don't think I'll ever switch over to skritter completely.