Usage

karatasi is a learning program based on flip cards. Each card has a front view with a question, and a back view with the answer. The cards are grouped into categories. Each category has its cards sorted alphabetically.

A card consists of 6 data fields. For every single category you may configure a style sheet. It defines which data fields appear in the question and which in the answer, and which is the data field that determines the sorting order of the cards in this category.

karatasi supports the creation of several databases. These databases are maintained separately. It is possible to move a card inside a database to another category, but not into a different database.

Recommended Work Flow

We recommend the following work flow with karatasi:

daily procedure:

perform daily test

drill cards

optional:

create more cards

commit additional cards to the learning procedure

learn the committed cards

The number of committed cards should be restricted to an amount which allows you to master your daily test and your daily drill well.

Getting Started

You can use the database wizard to create a database and then the data wizard to enter the information.

Or perform the following steps on the very first start of karatasi:

• create a database
• create one or several categories for this database
• create cards
• commit cards

karatasi adds these committed cards to the drill list, so that you can now learn them.

Step by Step

Create new database

• on database list screen tap the edit button
• tap +
• enter the name of the new database
• tap back arrow
• tap done

Create categories

• tap on database name and see the category list screen
• tap the edit button
• tap +
• enter category name
• tap back arrow
• enter additional categories if you want
• tap done

Add card

• tap on category name
• tap + and see the card details screen
• tap on question field
• enter question
• tap done
• tap on answer field
• enter answer
• tap done
• tap on the empty square to commit the card
• to create further cards tap on + and repeat as above
• tap back arrow
• tap back arrow
• tap back arrow, now you are in the database list again

Exercise (drill) cards

• tap on the drill button on the very right of the database name
• read question and remember answer
• tap "show answer"
• if your answer was right tap "known" else tap "failed"
• repeat until you did remember all answers, or tap "done" to interrupt the drill.

Test cards

You have to wait until the next day to get cards in test!

• tap on the test button just right of the database name
• read question and remember answer
• tap "show answer"
• tap one of the buttons depending how well you did know the answer, "+" to "+++" stands for known, "-" to "---" stands for not known
• repeat until you did test all cards, or tap "done" to interrupt the test.

read more about the karatasi learning process.