Good way to study modern Joseki?

[oren]

Most likely the explanations will not have the exact board position in discussion,
so there could be some unanswered questions, from a few to many.
This is often what happens. Much work to follow.

And that is exactly how you study.

[daal]

There are lots of ways of studying joseki. The best way I envision for someone starting out would be a combination of learning the meaning of joseki moves, and using some sort of spaced repetition system to memorize certain important lines. What I am imagining is a combination of something like Robert Jasiek's most recent joseki book and the android app go joseki. The app, like it's sister go tesuji is buggy, but full of good ideas. It shows you a position in the middle of a joseki, and you are to choose the continuation. After you pick, you are shown whether you got it right or wrong, and you can then wind back to the start of the joseki and step through it up to the problem diagram, and you can try out variations on your own. If this were combined with some good teaching texts and better spaced-repetition implementation and the possibility to choose which josekis to learn it would be ideal imo. Maybe smartgo books will someday offer something along these lines...

Other than that, there's also dailyjoseki which lets you choose what you want to learn from its pro game database, and lets you choose the starting point. Also quite nice, like go joseki, you have to provide the rationale for the moves yourself.