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back from the dead

sonorier   October 27th, 2009 5:21a.m.

Hi,

i haven't used skritter in a long time until this week, but plan to be back with a vengeance. Hopefully i can keep it up, since i am quite tired because of many things i am busy with.

I almost got through my huuuuuuuuuge review queue and ready to get a paid subscription when I do, so i can start adding again. I'm on 740 characters learned now and my next goal is one thousand.

The site has improve in this time, congrats guys and i like the new practice page. I will comment some more later as I get familiar enough again with all that's available.

That seems to me my main problem: I don't use half of the features available, for example 'add your own characters/words'...if i would use this i could get my character learned much higher in a short time I reckon since I haven't stopped learning with my tutor and nciku. So that's my first step...using Skritter more efficiently.

well, this post may not be of much interest to most of you, just wanted to make my return official hehe.

cheers

nick   October 27th, 2009 8:08a.m.

Welcome back! Will be looking forward to your feedback on the new stuff.

You probably didn't see the blog post, but one thing that makes it easier to keep up with Skritter is Faceleg's Skritter Agent:
http://www.skritter.com/misc/SkritterAgent.jar

You can put that in your startup programs and watch as it makes sure you keep studying by jumping out from your tray whenever it's been X hours or you have Y characters to review.

west4east   October 29th, 2009 3:52a.m.

Actually, it was interesting!

And I think sometimes one should take a few days off here and there, and see how many of the characters have evaporated from one's mind in that time, lol...

And I am sure you'll get to your 1000 characters faster than I will, haha!

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