On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:02 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to mnemosyne and have a few questions. > I use it to study Japanese vocabulary, using 3-way cards. I imported a > text file with tab separated entries (kanji - kana - English) > > 1. The words seem to be in a similar order as they were in the list I > imported them from, is there any way of shuffling them? In general, do > cards get shuffled by mnemosyne? I don't think it's a good idea to > have sets of words that always appear close together.
The idea is that similar cards will drift over time, as they are independent and you will remember them at varying levels of accuracy. (I personally find it easier in English vocab to go from the word to the definition than vice versa, so my cards tend to only be 'close' early on.) If you don't want to wait for the disparities to manifest themselves, then you can apply brute force - perhaps deliberately grade the first one you see a 4, and the second a 2. The third solution is to randomize scheduled cards for the day. This apparently can be done with a plugin:http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/node/142 (This isn't quite perfect, because if I understand the description correctly, if you have a card A-B and another card B-a, and they're both scheduled for today, they will both still show up today; just that the randomization may put one in the first ten and the second in the last 20, or something.) > 2. For each word it first shows the kanji, then the next question will > be the english of the exact same word (after I've scored the kanji > card). Obviously this is useless, I just saw the word so I'm not > testing anything, is there any way I can change this? This is much the same issue as #1 > 3. More generally, can I choose to only be shown kanji, or only > english, or only kana, as questions, instead of a mix, depending on > what I currently want to study? You could. Have you seen the category functionality? See "Learning only selected cards" in http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/help/organizing-grading-cards.php (Of course, it's still up to you to create the categories Japanese:English, Japanese:Kana, Japanese:Kanji, and populate them with appropriate questions.) > 4. Sometimes I click 0 because I don't know the word, and I get shown > the exact same card about 2 or 3 cards later. Is this intentional? > Obviously the second time I know the answer (I just saw it 2 cards > ago!), should I answer '2' this time? or '0' again, as I have no > reason to believe it has entered "long term memory"? > > Thanks for your help! -- gwern --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
