I'm a big Mnemosyne fan, but I've never been happy about the treatment of new difficult words that have a steep forgetting curve. Some words initially refuse to stick in my memory.
As an example of difficult words, here are some capitals of the world that I would never be able to memorize using Mnemosyne alone. I need to use my own method outside Mnemosye (known as "Der Sledgehammer") before eventually importing them to Mnemosyne: Yamoussoukro Ouagadougou Tegucigalpa BTW: I apologize in advance if I offend any person who is associated with any of these towns. The current "Not memorised" group does not solve this problem. (I've always thought that the "Not memorised" group seems to be a well- meaning "hack" rather than an implementation of a sophisticated algorithm. No offence intended :) ) Here are two reasons why the current non-memorized group does not work for difficult words: 1) Non-memorized words are pushed to the back of the queue. In other words, scheduled words are presented before non-memorized words. I assume that the steep initial forgetting curve of difficult words can reach zero before the word is re-presented from the "Not memorised" group. 2) Currently, the smallest unit of scheduling time is 1 day. So any "Yes" answer causes the card to be pushed to at least the next day. I know from bitter experience that if I get "Tegucigalpa" correct today, there is no guarantee that I will remember it tomorrow. Again, I assume that this is because the initial "forgetting curve" for "Tegucigalpa" is so steep that it reaches zero in less than 1 day. (I searched the SuperMemo articles for any reason why the minimum scheduled interval is 1 day. No reason was given.) I need the scheduled intervals to be much shorter for such words - measured in minutes or hours, rather than days. Eventually, of course, the interval would become multiples of 1 day. I'm wondering if it would be difficult for an idiot such as myself to use a plugin to specify the smallest unit of time that is to be used by the SM2 algorithm. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
