I believe the reason why the decks switch is so that you can do your reps in bite sized pieces through-out the day. This can be disabled by turning RepCap to OFF. (As you probably now assumed, repcap is that limit before switching decks.) Although since the recent update, the RepCap button doesn’t seem to work for me anymore…

If you hover over those items at the top, they’ll give you a description of what they are. Some seem straight forward, but I’m not entirely sure what they all do either ^^” Either way, they appear to be for navigating through your decks…for the most part at least.

I hope this helps 🙂

What is the RepCap?

And one other thing: what do the two buttons at the top left do?!? There’s the omega symbol and next to it a button just with a bunch of vertical lines.

Thank you so much!!!

I don’t know if this has been covered before, but I’ve looked at all the Surusu articles and couldn’t find an answer.
Basically, for the techno-fearing dinosaurs of myself, is there any way to manually backup my stuff on Surusu in another location? As in download all those cards and throw them on a flash drive? I figure that Surusu must be safe, considering you use it yourself, but I’m such a baby when it comes to stuff like this (OMG! It’s just FLOATING out there in the INTERNET)
If this isn’t possible, then a direct assurance from you regarding the complete safety and security features of Surusu would probably work just as well. Because you see I’m looking at making the switch to Surusu but I really just don’t want to lose my stuff, because then I’d lose all my credibility.

Thanks

I really think it’s admirable you’re responding to user requests and continuously tinkering. It takes a really long time to get things right so thanks for spending the time.

I’ve had a play with the new decks function and wonder if it might be made even more usable by adding a little more flexibility so that:
(1) items could be attached to multiple decks
(2) multiple decks could be reviewed at once (including a “review all” option)

I suppose what I’m saying is opening up the decks functionality so that they were, in effect, tags.

At the moment, reviews are only deck specific. This could be useful psychologically if you had a goal – say mastering the kanji – and wanted to dedicate some time to that specifically. However, presumably you would still need to attend to each deck each day otherwise you would be getting behind in your reps somewhere. Personally I think I would prefer to avoid having to think about which decks I had revised and which I hadn’t, especially if the decks were to accumulate. So, if you’re going to run with the idea of decks, I think it would be helpful to include an option to review all decks at the one time.

Also, I think it would be helpful if the same flashcard could be tagged with multiple decks (i.e. tags). Something might have a Japanese tag but also be related to psychology. I might want to include this item both when I’m studying psychology or when I’m studying Japanese. It would be also cool to have the option to study items relating to both psychology AND Japanese.

One way of implenting this might be that, when clicking the review button, you had the option of putting a check-box against all the decks you wanted to review at that one particular time. As I mentioned above, it would also be handy to have a “review all” option too.

I don’t think you would need to change the name – you could still call these “decks” – but just open up the functionality so that items could be attached to multiple decks and multiple decks could be reviewed at once (including a “review all” option).

Hope this is food for thought.

Cheers,

Dougal

Thanks a lot, Khatz!