Seems a bit odd to me that you experienced so many problems with Quia (you should send them feedback)-millions have chosen to use that site as have college professors. It probably has some glitches but it is an extremely popular site in the world of academia. Now I realize mnemosyne offers different services but when I spoke to a half a dozen college professors none of them used it. Doesn't this community want the beneficial results of this memory program to be known to others and more importantly used by others? I would think that the very intelligent programmers and developers of this site would want the fruits of their intelligence better appreciated and very accessible to others. I teach students, as do my colleagues and we would like to use this but quite frankly we all have experienced problems. Now of course I realize that finding empathy, with regard to my installation problems, on this board is really quite unlikely because anyone who has experienced the same is quite frankly not here. I do appreciate that many of you have tried to sincerely offer help and I will continue to try to put this software to use. But in the mean time, I think those who feel the site is so self explanatory that as a test you direct your non computer savvy but otherwise intelligent acquaintance to the site and see what he/she says about it. Please forgive me if you think it an oxymoron to say a non computer savvy but otherwise intelligent person. Once again thanks to all of you for your many suggestions and help.
On Sep 20, 9:48 pm, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:44 PM, [email protected] > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This whole system is a work in progress and is not user friendly. I > > would LOVE to use this but I am NOT a computer programmer. Take a look > > at Quia.com to see how a real user friendly program works. It is a > > pity that no one just took this private and charged 10-20 dollars for > > user friendly quickly installable programs. Even the card making > > program which the setup 1.21 installs is NOT user friendly or > > intuitive. With quia.com you can make 25 types of activities and each > > takes 15 minutes. Importing cards into mnemosyne requires writing > > codes or whatever--just not ready for the hoi polloi yet-- which is > > maybe what this community wants. Mnemosyne should have a program using > > their own program demonstrating how to use Mnemosyne step by step. It > > is a pity and I am sure I am not the only one to have been discouraged > > by its lack of user friendliness. > > ...I'm sorry, but did you just cite quia.com as a service which is > intuitive & user-friendly? > > I've used Quia for 2 classes I was in. Clearly we must be thinking > about different services, because the Quia I used had all sorts of > ridiculous flaws that made me dread signing on (couldn't bookmark > pages, had to navigate through a rigid unobvious system, couldn't have > multiple tabs, audio files which were just mp3s, nasty time-outs, > random spaz-outs, and just the general rigidity and terrible taste of > corporate-style intranets) - when I could figure out the right page to > sign onto and not get lost in their site mazes. > > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
