Querido, I really like that idea of calculating the number of cards
with intervals of fewer than 30 days. It strikes me as being much more
useful in gauging projected workload than the calculations I was
thinking of.

On Oct 28, 4:26 pm, querido <[email protected]> wrote:
> While you're thinking about it, let me mention a statistic I've been
> keeping for about six months with my modified mnemosyne. It's "number
> of cards with intervals < 30 days" (not the same as "cumulative number
> of cards due in next 30 days"). I use this stat to gauge workload. For
> that it works like "cards per day" but is more stable. This number
> approaching 1000 almost kills me, while <300 might be unnecessarily
> easy.
>
> On Oct 28, 2:42 pm, Bill Price <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > This isn't a feature request for the core program, so I'm posting it
> > here for general discussion.
>
> > I realized today that it might be useful to gauge the "maturity" of a
> > deck by combining every card's statistics to calculate the median and
> > the average number of days until the next repetition.
>
> > We might expect these sorts of patterns:
>
> > New deck: Very low median and average times to next repetition
>
> > Old deck which has not had additions over time: High median and
> > average times to next repetition
>
> > Old but "evolving" deck which had new content added regularly: High
> > average but mid-range median times
>
> > It could be interesting to compare these metrics against user
> > performance, e.g. what percentage of cards has received which grade,
> > what the median and average easiness ratings are, how well the user
> > complies with a daily studying schedule, etc.
>
> > I feel like these sorts of calculations and comparisons could be made
> > either by a general "Deck Statistics" plugin or by a 3rd-party program
> > which would parse the data in the default.mem file to create a
> > statistics report. This could also be done manually by importing an
> > XML file into a spreadsheet program and running calculations on the
> > relevant cells, though that would require a lot of user effort.
>
> > Any thoughts/opinions/suggestions on this topic?
>
> > – Bill
>
>
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