2008/11/30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > I read on the site that Mnemosyne handles large numbers of cards by > rescheduling them to the future, even if you can't quite finish all > that are scheduled for a review. How exactly does this work? I am > currently entering around 100 cards a day, and am finding the review > to be too time consuming (around 3-4 hours per day). If I cut this > back to a review of only 100 cards, even though Mnemosyne is > scheduling more cards on top of those, will I still be gaining the > optimal results from the scheduling algorithm?
When you say "entering" 100 cards a day, do you mean adding 100 new cards and doing all of your reviews and looking at the new cards (which should be scheduled at the end, depending on the settings... I think)? The important thing is really that you're not just making too much work for yourself; as Peter says, you should probably cut down on the number of cards you add each day. Remember that the review workload will be proportional to the number of new cards you view each day. Since the normal rule for a set of cards that are due for review is that the most urgent appear first, you can just do as much as you have time for (e.g. 45 mins-1 hour, bearing in mind that this is apparently the most optimal study period anyway and you should be taking a break/stopping around then) and things will work out - if you're already swamped, then only doing 50 minutes (or x cards, where x is, say, 120) will neglect the new cards in favour of the more urgent cards needing review. Soon, the backlog will clear itself and you will be left with a more manageable workload. If it's any help, I only add cards every 3 days, adding about 36 at a pop. I spend a little under an hour (if things go well) to do my reviews and learn 12 new cards (and no more). I arrived at these numbers (they were initially much too high, like in your case) through simple observations of adjustments of the workload I was seeing. These are Chinese character/word production cards though, so if you have cards that require less brute-force learning you'll be able to progress much more quickly than I do. good luck, Oisín --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
