Peter Bienstman wrote: > On Tuesday 17 November 2009 11:09:35 am Dougie Nisbet wrote: > >> How does 'Learn ahead of Schedule' work? (I'm from a Supermemo on Palm >> PDA backround). >> >> Although I'm using mnemosyne for long-term memorising I need to learn >> things in the short term. (I quite liked the anki feature of basing >> repeat intervals on hourly granularity rather than by day). >> >> If I start Learning ahead of Schedule will mnemosyne prompt cards in a >> particular order? e.g. Poorly memorised ones before better memorised ones? >> > > It will start by showing you the cards that are due for tomorrow, then the > day > after tomorrow, etc... > > That's great. That's what I'm after >> For short term memorising (where I'm actually trying to learn stuff in >> the first place, rather than refresh already learned stuff) what would >> be the best approach? >> > > Just drill them with grades 0 and 1 until you're really confident that you > will > remember them for a few days. > > For cramming of already memorised material, 'learn ahead of schedule' is not > recommended. 2.0 has a true cramming option, but obviously cramming goes > against the SRS philosophy. > The material isn't 'already memorised' though as I've yet to learn it. (the example is visual botantical idents using jpegs). I'm sure there are many opinions and much research about the best way to learn in the first place, and I'd be interested to know what's recommended, but for me I found using the 'Drill' feature of Supermemo a reasonably stress-free way of learning things. It was the desire to start using images that made me move onto mnemosyne. I may run the drill several times in one day to help learn something.
I understand that cramming is against the SRS philosophy but for me I find the confidence boost of bringing things forward to refresh ahead of time helpful. I'd be mightly peeved if I had a test/event/function/meeting/lecture/anything in which I wished to be confident of my recall in a particular field, and even though I might think I'm ok, discovered that a lot of the material was scheduled for review just after the event I wanted to be sure I knew it for. I would like to refresh the material for my own peace of mind. If I understand it correctly (correct me if I'm wrong), SRSs work best for refreshing and consolidating already learned information rather than learning the stuff in the first place. That may be the case, but I find, for me anyway, that the SRS tools (back to Supermemo 'drill') a fairly relaxing way of learning the new material in the first place (and one thing I didn't care for in anki was the countdown timer on each question). So I'm not sure I'm cramming (although come exam time I may want to). I want to learn it in the first place and quite like using mnemosyne to do that. I think my idea of using dedicated categories in the short term and using the 'learn ahead of schedule' then merging the category with an existing mainstream one. Dougie -- 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=.
