Thank you for your input, Wim. I appreciate that very much. Yes, true, The primary cause of my flashcarding dying out is just that. Trying to do too much too fast. Come to think of it, it's mostly due to not realizing how big of a task I was undertaking. Although, even that could perhaps have been doable had I not insisted on doing the whole day's pile in one go.
That's actually one of the goals with this idea I brought up. To facilitate doing more cards by dividing it into bite size pieces that are offered to you during the day at opportune moments. One possible future development idea once the basics work might be to take over the task of calculating how many you are willing to do per day and offering you that many per day. Although, for the moment, something to help new users to pick an amount of cards they can handle per day would be quite nice. Peter, this reminds me that I was a bit puzzled about why the settings have a "grade 0" cards at once instead of a "I wish to review X cards per day" setting. The latter would make much more sense to me and actually give me an idea of how big a piece I'm about to hog down per day. Important for new users I think. I think in my case, in the past, it'd have been beneficial if there'd been a setting like this and a conservative suggestion for how much to do per day for start. Perhaps even with an updating estimate of what kind of daily review numbers I'm heading for per day if I choose to go over it. Best Regards, Joel On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 18:53 +0200, Wim Woittiez wrote: > Hi Joel, > > That's an interesting take on things... quite the opposite of mine in > some respects, but it has a lot going for it, too. I looked into immsd > and found it very interesting... unfortunately I'm on Windows. I would > still recommend you to set up a daily routine which is not a heavy > burden, something like 10 to 15 minutes or so. Who can really not > spare 15 minutes every day? Then determine how many cards you can do > in that time, and make sure you don't do more. It will require > patience because you won't see the number decreasing very fast, but a > long-term, stable, not too heavy effort gets you very far in the end. > I sometimes compare with a kid running or a grown-up running. The kid > starts off like a rocket, making fun of the grown-up, but is quickly > exhausted. > > Signing off the subject now, but I enjoyed the exchange, thanks! > Kind regards, > > Wim > -- 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.
