Help me find this flashcard program?

May 14, 2008 5:56 PM

About a year ago, I installed a freeware program onto my Dell Axim to aid with learning. Since then, the program has been removed and I've forgotten what it was called. I'm hoping someone out there can help me.

The program was for learning languages and memorization. I remember that data to be memorized was added to the program in pairs (i.e. "Ottawa" and "Canada"). The program would display one of the two strings (Ottawa) and then show a prompt to be clicked after the user had tried to remember what the matching string was. Clicking the prompt would display the matching string (Canada). If I recall correctly, several options were displayed where the user could enter how well the text had been recalled ("I remembered it immediately", "It took a bit of thought", "I was completely wrong", ...). The program would keep track of which were memorized less correctly and show those more frequently.

If anyone can help me find this again, I'd really appreciate it.

posted by Proginoskes to computers & internet (4 comments total)

That's Supermemo.
posted by Wolfdog at 5:59 PM on May 14

Sounds like Anki.
posted by peacheater at 6:08 PM on May 14

Anki is the freeware, user-friendliy version of Supermemo.

http://ichi2.net/anki/

The palm version is free. Do I get a favorite Amirite?
posted by mecran01 at 6:09 PM on May 14 [1 favorite]

Supermemo was what I was thinking of, but Anki looks promising, too. Thanks all!
posted by Proginoskes at 7:07 PM on May 14