I changed to the excellent Mnemosyne after trying FullRecall, MemoryLifter, and WinFlash. My main reason for changing was that I liked Mnemosyne's use of the "hand" for "new" cards.
With the other three tools, if I added 50 new cards, then the first card would not be presented for review until the other 49 cards had been presented once. I was forced to manually "pre-learn" those new cards before entering them into the tool :) Mnemosyne's use of the hand allows the initial repetitive, "brute force" memorization that most people would have used for new vocabulary before computer tools arrived. I would prefer if "Not memorised" items were treated in the same way as "new" items. I think this might have been suggested earlier (by Paul Harker?), but it's difficult searching the archives now because of all the posts that offer cheap copies of Mnemosyne. After finishing my scheduled items today, I had 11 "Not memorised" items. I graded the first item as 0. This item was re-presented immediately. I do not see any value in that. In several other cases, a non-memorized item was re-presented immediately after being graded 0. For non-memorized items to be treated in the same way as new items, here is what could happen: 1) Build up the "hand" to the specified value (for example, "5"), using non-memorized cards. 2) If any card is grade 2+, add the next non-memorized card to the hand. 3) If any non-memorized card is graded 0, do not present it again until four other cards have been presented once. 4) When the number of non-memorized cards drops below 5, add cards from the next scheduled cards that are due to be presented. 5) Continue until all the "genuine" non-memorized cards have been graded 2+. Notes: Using "not due to be scheduled" cards to replenish the hand might distort the statistics for these cards. Therefore, do not change the statistics of these cards - they are simply used as "padding". --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
