Men of AJATT, on to glory! See Surusu famed in story! Waves these burning words before ye: “Britain scorns to yield!”.

Hmmm…and on that note.

Surusu now supports import of decks from Anki. Current limitations:

• Only Anki “cards“ (not “facts”) exported in the form of tab-separated text file, are supported.
• As you might expect, repetition history is not imported. However, Surusu does have facilities such as the warp button, whereby you can set very long intervals in a single click, allowing you to basically say: “I know this card very well, don’t show it to me for a long while”. This keeps well-memorized cards out of your hair so that you can spend more of your time on the cards you know less well.

In other news:

• Surusu now also supports rudimentary “undo” of repetition scores. If you accidentally give the card the wrong score, simply click on the link to its data page (shown at the top of the current page together with interval information), and “reset” it.
• Surusu decks can now be deleted and merged as well as renamed. However, delete and merge are irreversible, one-time operations, so use them with care. At present, there is no deck trashcan, i.e. no undo for deck mergers and deletions.

Let it be known throughout the land. Surusu now comes with the ability to rename decks! Just visit the bottom of the “decks” page to give your old decks nicer names

ちわーっす！Surusu users united can never be defeated.

Um…There’s a new feature up, accessible when you view the back (“answer”) side of your cards and are scoring your performance. It’s a button labeled “|DAILY|”.

Basically, what this button does is bypass normal interval processing, forcing your card to appear the next “day”, regardless of its previous performance (note: this is subject to some minor variation due to Surusu’s priority scheduling). This daily repetition function is useful if, say, you’re wanting to really brainwash yourself with some idea, and you’d like to exposed to it on a daily basis.

That’s it .

While Surusu’s automated card rescheduling and salami-slicing (essentially, showing you only N number of cards at a time) is one of its strengths, sometimes you do want to do a ton of reps uninterrupted.

So, by popular demand, I have added a new feauture dubbed “autofeed cards”. Basically it causes Surusu to keep “feeding” you cards without your constant intervention (no being taken back to the home screen every N cards). Rather like a, uh, an automatic firearm. There’s a friendly image for you .

And that’s it for now! Thanks for using Surusu!

After a lot of tiny Surusu updates comes a big ‘un. A long awaited feature is here at last: decks. The semantics are the same as for a physical deck of cards, in that a card belongs to one and only one deck, but can be moved freely between them. Now, you can:

• Combine/import your other accounts as decks, into a single account
• Create decks
• Move cards between decks
• View deck-specific stats
• Do deck-specific reps
• Cure cancer, AIDS and athlete’s foot
  
• Be happy

Note that in order to fully enable decks in your account, you may need to log out and then log in again. The ability to rename decks shall be added in a future update . For now, enjoy! All you beautiful Surusuers, keep your comments and suggestions coming using the Surusu hotline.

Other new, hip major features:

• PC/cellphone browser detection (cleaner redirects for PCs, linked redirects for cellphones)
• Background processing (asynchronous data-handling, allowing Surusu to give you a fast interface even as the amount of data being worked with increases).
• An improved repetition scheduling algorithm with more randomization and wider mix selection. Basically, your cards are shuffled more and they’re chosen in a way that further improves performance in terms of coverage breadth/depth.
• Decimation. “Trash bad cards” moves egregiously poor-performing cards to the trashcan, up to a maximum of 1% of a given deck’s cardcount.

Thank you for using Surusu.

As you may be aware, Surusu has up until now had periodic 15~20-minute service interruptions while backups are taken.

Wanting to eliminate the need to interrupt service in order to take a backup, today I started working with a “live backup” solution.

Unfortunately and quite ironically, this “live backup” solution led to the loss of the very user data — yours and mine — that it was intended to protect.

Fortunately, I had taken a full, “normal” backup just one week ago.
It has become necessary to restore this week-old backup.
As a result, one week’s worth of entered cards [anything entered between September 12 and September 20 (Japan time)] have been lost, and may not be recoverable. Repetition data has also been reset to September 12 status, although this does not represent a significant problem since it will just mean extra review.

Your time and data are valuable.
I apologize deeply for the inconvenience.
I shall continue to work to find stable, sustainable ways to ensure the integrity of the system.
For now, that may mean the occasional 15~20 minute service interruption while a very pedestrian backup is taken.

The Good News

The Surusu interface has been updated extensively for even more pleasant use. There have also been dozens of back-end fixes. Notably, the sporadic problem with “Extra Reps” processing not going through, has been repaired.

Thank you again for using Surusu.

Best regards,

Khatzumoto

[P.S.]: Will This Sort of Thing Happen Again?

No.

This was the first Surusu data loss incident of any kind in all its nearly 4 years of operation. And the fault was ultimately human error — mine. At the time, I was in a rush to get cool new stuff working “invisibly”, with minimum inconvenience to everyone else.

The webhost/server is one of the best out there…the database system is stable…the programmer was in too much of a hurry . A deliberate pace and simple safety checks, as has been the usual policy, can and will prevent all loss of this kind.

The immediate short-term direction is more frequent backups. Beyond that, adding functionality so we can all download and back-up our data locally is a high priority, something I want to add as soon as possible.

So, both as a user and a programmer…I’ll do my very best and more. Your concern is completely warranted, and I feel your pain — my data, all 25000 odd cards and  nearly 100000 reps — are in there, too .

Deepest apologies again for the inconvenience .