In case you missed it, yesterday we sent out the Skritter January newsletter, which you can read here: Skritter January Newsletter(or here, for China users) If you’re not signed up to get them, you can …
Example Words in Word Popup
We built this a while ago, but haven’t gotten around to featuring it until now. This is a really cool feature because it allows you to see which words a character is used in, helping …
Did you Know? Keyboard Shortcuts
We have fielded enough inquiries to know that many Skritterers don’t seem to be aware of the awesome power and speed afforded by the keyboard shortcuts on the Study Page. We have a short FAQ …
One Million Characters Learned
Skritter users have now learned how to write a combined total of one million characters! That’s a million less scratched heads, anguished sighs of incomprehension, points missed on tests, and delightful animal parts accidentally ordered. …
Add Words Via Google Chat
While taking advantage of some new Google APIs to upgrade our deployment process, I worked in a small new feature to test things out. You can now use Google Chat to add words to your …
Redesign #5: List Creation
And last but not least, the making of lists. This is something else we tested thoroughly, and found the process had a big tendency to confuse people. So we brainstormed a whole mess of things …
Redesign #4: List Page
Ah the list page, we meet again. This page has been giving us trouble ever since the very beginning. Each time we get a little closer, but still just not up to par. We did …
Redesign #3: Vocab Lists
We decided to try something radically different with the new vocab list page, at least, different than what we had before. Before we had nice large icons giving first time users an overview of the …
Redesign #2: My Words
One thing that Skritter does rather differently from many other SRS systems out there is it coordinates studies between different groups of words. If you’re studying two lists, and they share some words, you don’t …
Redesign #1: Study Nav
So, after about a week of alpha testing we’re pushing all these changes live for everyone. Most everything is the same as before, it’s just rearranged and organized better, and hopefully easier to use. Since …