It's currently completely random, as it was in previous version of Mnemosyne.
Feel free to contribute code for other randomisations :-) One technical issue is that what you propose would be difficult to implement efficiently in the context of the SQL backend and running on mobile devices. Cheers, Peter On Friday 20 February 2009 15:52:17 Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: > 2009/2/20 Peter Bienstman <[email protected]>: > > When you review them, they are sorted in such a way that the shortest > > intervals come first. If cards have equal intervals, it's well possible > > that they stay in the order that they were entered. > > > > There is a plugin to always randomise the revision queue if you don't > > like that behaviour. > > How much randomising does it do? I think just a little bit of noise > added to the revision queue would be good - i.e. when Mnemosyne sorts > them as you said, it could simulate noise of +/- a few percent of the > card's interval.. or simply run through the sorted list and jitter it > slightly. This would be better than two options of either "sorted > strictly by shortest interval" or "completely random" - the sequence > of cards wouldn't become very predictable, but one would still on > average deal with the most important (shortest interval due) cards > first. > > Then again, maybe the plugin already does that, in which case great :) > > Oisín > > -- ------------------------------------------------ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
