2009/5/29 Timothy Bourke <[email protected]>:
> On May 29 at 12:54 +0900, Robert Gravina wrote:
>> Yeah. For a mobile client I'd be happy with something which would grab
>> and scheduled/forgotten cards from the desktop Mnemosyne and allow you
>> to grade them... it could then give this back to the desktop version
>> to merge back in. Could this be done with a Mnemosyne plugin on the
>> desktop side?  Maybe adding a "sync" button/menu item which would
>> listen on a known port and you could enter the address of this machine
>> into the client and away it goes.
>
> The MnemoGoGo plugin does this more or less. You tell it to export
> cards for a certain number of days, it writes a series of files to a
> folder on your mobile phone (mounted over bluetooth or usb, for
> instance), these are used and updated by the mobile client, and then,
> at any point, the updated statistics can be imported back into
> Mnemosyne. The only restriction of this approach is that it's not
> possible to safely review cards on both a phone and the desktop at the
> same time.

Reading the design page it seems you've thought about this problem before :)
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~tbourke/software/mnemogogo-design.html

> The plugin also has to massage html used in the cards, and to rescale
> images.

Ah didn't consider that... I guess because my flashcards are all (unicode) text.

> It supports export/import plugins so that it can be extended
> for different clients on different types of phones.

I wasn't aware of that... that's great, that should take a lot of the
work out of creating another mobile client. Good stuff.

Robert

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