I've wondered a bit about this. In general I agree with you, that one should stick with the schedule. On the other hand, if you have a card coming up tomorrow that was set for 300 days, doing it today after only 299 days is pretty much the same. Occasionally I know that I'm going to have a hard time doing my reviews in the near future (going on vacation for a week or something), and I think it would be useful to take care of some of those upcoming reviews ahead of time rather than coming back and facing 1000 reviews.
So this isn't by any means the most urgent thing, and presumably could be implemented through a plug-in or something, but I think it would be useful to have a "review early intelligently", which scheduled reviews by order of "minimum distortion to the schedule". By which I mean that the above card was distorted by 1/300 which is about .003. If you had another card that was due in 2 days but had a time lag of 1000 that would get scheduled first, since its distortion would only be .002. So if you were reviewing early by minimum distortion, you could only review cards where the interval was distorted by up to some amount which you could specify. I really think that even a distortion of 0.2 isn't that big of a deal, if you were supposed to review a card in 20 days and you did it instead in 16 I don't think you're doing that much harm to the system... cheers, -Eric On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sorry for the triple post... one more thing I'd like to add on the >> "features" topic. I sometimes get into the situation where I still >> have lots of unlearned cards in a deck, which I don't want to cover >> today, but I want to work on repetitions ahead of schedule anyway. >> This is currently impossible. > > Doing reps ahead of schedule is really not recommended, it's really best if > people learn new material instead. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
