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Studying is hard. You can spend hours highlighting things, taking notes, and looking them over again and again, but then when the day of the test comes, it can all still somehow manage to slip away from your mind like sand through your fingers.
Even in the age of smartphones, studying is still an uphill battle. If you want to use an app to make flashcards, you still have to input all the information manually. And sure, you can take pictures of the information you need to memorize using your phone, but simply staring at a picture with no interaction is not going to help much.
That’s where AnkiSnap comes in. It’s a highlighter that helps link textbooks and smartphones together in a way that makes studying a lot easier. You simply highlight the information you need to know, take a photo of it, and then the AnkiSnap app turns it into a game where you can test yourself.
▼ Step 1: Highlight the hard-to-remember stuff. ▼ Step 2: Take a picture of the page. ▼ Step 3: Open it up in the app and all the highlighted areas are blackened out. Touching them reveals the answer, and it keeps track of how many you’ve done.
As a former Japanese teacher, AnkiSnap looks like it could really be helpful for students. One of the most effective ways to study and get information to stick is by using Cloze deletion, having words blanked out in sentences where you have to fill in them in based on the context, and that seems to be what AnkiSnap is all about.
Plus you can even share your AnkiSnap data with others who also have the app, so study groups and friends can divide up the work and get more done more efficiently.
If you’re interested in trying out AnkiSnap, you can buy the pen and a one-year app license at Amazon or Amazon Japan. Reviews of the product on Amazon Japan vary from people having lots of success with it, to others who claim it doesn’t work as they expected. However, many reviewers got it to work fine, so maybe we need to take Japan’s notoriously harsh reviews with a grain of salt?
Source: Pentel
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Poor English Speaker
Umm... I think these advantages above the article are right in terms of preparing for entrance exams or regular test, which means focucing on memorizing. However, depending solely on the app (taking pictures of certain pages, saving on the cloud and invoking the data when necessary) means that students might concentrate only what they highlighted some pages without reading other contents such as colums, trivium, etc. So, a textbook itself should be highlighted, not partially. Whenever these useful apps or other systems are introduced on the market, I have a mix feeling about it.