Interesting idea! Could certainly be implemented as a plugin with the 2.x codebase.
Cheers, Peter On Tuesday, May 18, 2010 01:22:12 pm Joel Joonatan Kaartinen wrote: > Hi, > > I used Mnemosyne for a while a couple of years ago and while I had a > goal that Mnemosyne helped me get towards, I managed to use it, almost > daily. However, once that was past, my use of Mnemosyne dropped fast. > Eventually, I was launching it rarely enough that the number of cards > waiting for me alone was enough to keep me from launching it. > > My approach obviously has problems and while fixing my mental approach > would be better, it does appear to be a long term project in itself. > Also, a part of that project would be to figure out what is a good > amount of cards per day and to adjust accordingly. Also another aspect > would be figuring out the times when I'm most likely to be willing to > divert my attention to doing a few flashcards. > > The part of this I'm currently able to do, reliably, myself, is to know > whether I want to do a few flashcards, if I remember they exist. The > problem part is remembering they exist at the times when I'd be willing > to do a few of them. > > So, since my problem is one of persistence in remembering to go through > the flashcards and computer software is very good in persistence, I > thought it'd be a nice idea to have a flashcard software that sometimes > gives me a small transient box for a few seconds in the corner of the > screen that has a link I can click to get a flashcard UI to do a few > flashcards. > > However, just a random reminder would likely get annoying eventually, > leading to the user disabling it. So, it would need some intelligence. > Ideally, it would only show the box at the times I'm willing to do some > flashcards. So, I was thinking that perhaps it could pay attention to > mouse&keyboard usage as well as programs starting and stopping (or > alternatively, being focused and unfocused) on the system and use those > as clues as to whether or not show the box. > > So, it'd keep a log of the times you do click the box to do the > flashcards and slowly learn what events happening mean you're more or > less likely to do some flashcards and avoid showing the reminder when > you're likely to ignore it. > > So, I'd be interested in what people here think about this idea. Would > you like it? Do you have ideas on how to improve this further? If so, > I'd be thrilled to hear back from you. > > Best Regards, > Joel -- ------------------------------------------------ Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be email: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------ -- 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.
