I think you confuse the concepts of new cards, unmemorised cards and grade 0 cards.
new cards: cards you have never seen before in the revision process unmemorised cards: cards with grade 0 and 1. This includes the new cards, and the cards that you have forgotten grade 0 cards: well, er... The 'hand' is only for grade 0 cards (as it says in the dialog box). As for the same card being asked twice in a row, that occasionally happens. There is no use in that, but also no big harm. Patches are welcome, though. Peter On Saturday 25 October 2008 10:22:39 OldGrantonian wrote: > 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". > -- ------------------------------------------------ Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
