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I updated Chris of Nihongo Notes already, but this blog has been too quiet lately, so I’ll expand on that post a bit.

So I’ve been using ndsrs for over a month now. The verdict? It’s OK. By its simplicity, it ensures that I spend more time studying than I do working on nitpicky things like revising kanji stories or adjusting word order. ‘Fix it later, buddy, because right now it’s study or nothing.’

The features I miss from Anki most are sync and editing. Sync is not really a deal-breaker for me, as the DS is my primary on-the-go study tool and I have it with me all the time, so the simple Anki-based intervals work well for me.

You can do a one-way sort of editing: if you need to change a card, all you need to do is modify the line in your original text file and re-import it. Still, I can’t add any notes to my cards or modify them (‘oh! I got this great new idea for a story but…I can’t edit it and I don’t have pen and paper…’).

Since they already crammed Opera into a DS (and integrated it into the DSi), if enough people from the Anki community and the DS homebrew community got together, we could certainly fit Anki in there. There are slot 2 memory cards that increase the DS’s built-in 2MB of operational memory up to 32MB. A stripped-down version of Anki could certainly use a 1GB flash kart and 32MB of operational memory. I just don’t have time to learn C++ to do it myself. :P