Playbooks
An Offline Traditional-Character Writing Tracker
Want an offline tool to practice traditional characters and track progress, with no account? Here is what a local-first writing tracker should do and why it fits.
Lawrence Arya··4 min
Essays
Tracking Hanzi, Kanji, and Thai on One Dashboard? Mind the Gaps
A unified retention dashboard across Hanzi, Kanji, and Thai looks impressive, but the scripts are too different to share a meaningful metric, and tracking builds none of them. Here is the honest take.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Playbooks
The Most Aesthetic iPad Chinese Tracker for Notion
Want a beautiful iPad Chinese study tracker that fits your Notion setup? Here is how to pair an aesthetic dashboard with practice that actually builds writing.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Essays
Tracking Dashboards vs Active Testing: What Builds Recall
A tool that tracks and maps your practice on-device looks rigorous, but dashboards do not build memory. Active testing does: producing characters from memory, offline, scored by performance.
Lawrence Arya··4 min
Playbooks
Tracking Your Character-Amnesia Recovery With a Self-Test
To know if your character amnesia is actually improving, test production, not feelings. A simple offline self-test, can you write these from memory, maps recovery far better than a dashboard.
Lawrence Arya··5 min