Commands on VIM marks

  • :marks – Display all the bookmarks
  • ma – Creates a bookmark called a
  • `a – Jump to the exact location of the bookmark a
  • ‘a – Jump to the beginning of the line of the bookmark a
  • `. – Jump to the exact location of the last modification
  • ‘. – Jump to the beginning of the line of the last modification

With marks, it’s very easy to switch between different files.

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Anki sync on my touch works again

I adjust the time on touch and it works again.

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The easiest way to add an article into evernote from google reader is to “Email” it

We can use a customized link to send an article from google reader to evernote, but it’s very slow. However, email it to the unique email address of you evernote, is easier and faster.

Instapaper also come out with a beta feature to let us bookmark an article by sending an email.

2010/3/26: The instapaper bookmark seems to work in Google reader. Just select the article and click the bookmark.

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SRS is not the silver bullet

SRS (Spaced Repetition Software, like supermemo, anki, mnemosyne) can help you to remember the words, sentences, but it doesn’ mean you can speak them fluently nor you can recall them when you want to use them.

You still need to practise. Remember, this is no silver bullet.

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Why my google customized search is not as good as google site search?

I created a customized search engine to search ivyenglish.com.cn, but I find that I cannot use phrase search on it.

For example, I search “problem for” and will get nothing. But I search the same phrase using google site search: “problem for” site:ivyenglish.com.cn, I can get two results contains this phrase.

Why?

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Switch to mnemosyne

I switched to mnemosyne from anki for my english study recently.
Anki’s online synchronization is good and it also can be used on my touch. (It was broken, though.) But I don’t like its review is minute-by-minute, not day-by-day.
I try to put all my data on dropbox, including .mem file and the whole .mnenosyne folder. However I can’t use .mnemosyne on another computer but I can open .mem file. Is there anyone tell me the difference between using .mnemosyne and .mem file directly?

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Readability, a small tool to improve browsing experience

Readability是一个改进在浏览器上阅读体验的小工具,可以把网页上的正文提取出来然后重新显示。不需要太多的介绍,到主页上看看就知道了。除了用书签的方式,它也有firefox的插件。

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Supermemo for iphone is updated to 1.1

It works but still buggy.

  • It’s very slow when studying or reviewing.
  • Can’t import utf-8 format file, but works well with ANSI format.
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听ESL podcast居然自动搜出了lyric文件

在Windows 7上用media player听ESL podcast,居然搜出了lyric文件.. 真是不错啊

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禁用Windows下的gvim默认的Ctrl+v的行为

在Windows下,gvim的Ctrl+v默认是粘贴,而不是可视块模式。要修改回来,最快的方法就是修改vim的安装目录下的mswin.vim,注释掉里面映射Ctrl+v的两行就可以了。

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