Oisín wrote:
On 14 April 2010 12:31, Michael Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
I do my scheduled cards, then check the Ctrl-T screen (statistics) to see
how many are for the next day. I let mnemosyne throw me new cards and
recently "forgotten" cards as it will and I check the stats screen every so
often until my next day's card # is that magic 60. This keeps me getting
around 3-5 not-yet-seen cards a day; sometimes more, sometimes none. It's
a pace I can keep up with, it doesn't take overly long during my morning
routine, and it keeps things fresh by showing me new stuff fairly
frequently.
That's a clever way of ensuring your workload is roughly constant each
day - although the number of new cards seen every day will gradually
drop as more cards are learned and come up for review each day (i.e.
eventually more than 60 cards will come up for review and you'll see
no new cards). Might be nice actually, to plot the number of new cards
seen every day as the number of known cards increases, for a given
"magic number".
The learner is faced with either a drop off in the rate of new cards
seen, or an increase in workload/time spent (by revising that target
number upwards). Would be interesting to see at what rate that
happens...
My goal with that process is exactly what you describe; keep the
workload roughly constant GIVEN I imported a couple new really big decks
and just didn't want to be overwhelmed. Once I get to the point where
there are no "unmemorized cards" other than what I forget from day to
day, I just do what the scheduler doles out for me.
My # is 60 - and if the # of scheduled cards for the day is over that,
which does happen on occasion, I do all the scheduled and stop. But
most of the time the scheduled # is between 35 and 50, so between what I
forget from the scheduled and "backlogged forgotten" cards, I usually
have 2-5 actual never-before-seen new cards per day.
My overall goal with mnemosyne is to keep my brain active, not
necessarily knowing the particular facts I'm learning (though that is
fun too), so as my average scheduled cards/day figure starts going down
once I've learned a deck, I add a new deck and repeat the process. I
usually look at flashcards.com (etc.) for new decks that interest me.
I'm American and my knowledge of geography is typical (that is to say,
bad), so I picked up African, European, and Asian countries, capitals
and flags. Then US presidents and the US constitutional amendments.
I'm enjoying it.
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