On Friday 05 December 2008 06:58:32 Kevin wrote: > I did some more testing and here is what is happening - I import a set > of 10 items and they show up in my not memorized queue. I cycle > through them a few times marking them as 1. I go to import another 10 > items, expecting that they will be added to the pool of unlearned > items along with the previous 10. They aren't - I can only cycle > through the first 10 items regardless of any preferences settings or > whether I grade them 0 or 1.
Your revision queue is not rebuild until it is completely empty. If after import you go through all of your previous grade 1 cards one more time, the newly imported cards should start to show up. Do they? Peter > UNTIL... I mark one of the first 10 items as a 2 or higher - then I > finally start to get the most recently imported items. Why does > mnemosyne behave this way? > > To test this I made a dummy deck where the questions and answers were > just integer values - integers 1 through 20. I imported them in two > batches of 10 from a tab delimited text file. The first numbers > (1-10) come in and I cycle through them a couple times marking them as > 1. Then I import the next ones (11-20) and start cycling through the > cards, but only numbers 1-10 are showing up - restarting mnemosyne > doesn't make any difference either. When I mark one of the 1-10 cards > as 2 or higher, then after a few more reps the others finally start to > come in. > > What I would expect is that newly imported items would be added to the > pool of questions showing up without having to mark anything as > learned - but somehow they aren't pulled into the queue of questions > that appear until one of the first imported batch is marked as > learned. I want to build up a stack of unlearned cards (via import) > to practice throughout the day before marking any of them as learned > until I am ready for it. I like to do this incrementally because it > is like building a tower - I don't move on to adding more unlearned > items until I am comfortable enough with the previous ones (although > not comfortable enough to mark them as learned). So, this seems like > a bug to me, unless there's some underlying logic to it that I don't > understand. > > Hope my long-winded explanation helps here :) Duncan, what you > describe is consistent with my experience and seems to be the same > issue. However, I don't want to let go of my items so soon - I need > to practice them for most of the day before I really commit them my > 2-3 days memory. Either way, it seems to be an inconsistency in the > way unlearned items are handled - and I want to emphasize again that > this doesn't seem to have ANYTHING to do with the number of grade 0 > cards to hold in hand setting. Seems to be a completely different > issue, especially because we're dealing with grade 1 cards anyway. > > Thanks > km > -- ------------------------------------------------ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
