No, you are clear. I understand the problem. Gwern Branwen was right about the sharing of the *actual* single deck. The point of the application is that it learns how to respond to your learning so sharing the deck from a single laptop not only won't work. It's counterproductive.
My recommendation is that every student update their own version of the deck. When they have added new cards then they can simply export the category for which they are responsible and upload the .xml file to a central place. You can share any kind file via google docs so it's a pretty ideal place to do it but there are other service as well. When the categories are updated then you will have to "check them out" from where they are saved and add them to the deck on your personal computer. You can either rewrite over the cardiology.xml each time you update (google likely notifies you when there are changes to shared files) or agree on a scheme to keep it organized (i.e. cardiology1.xml, cardiology2.xml, cardiology3.xml). This is an easy problem to resolve once everyone agrees on the plan. The only thing that I can't account for are the duplicates. When you import from a category you will have all the previous duplicates from what has already been created. I don't know (because I haven't had your problem) how the software handles those, whether it knows the duplicates are there and does nothing with them or whether you have to manually "clean duplicates" each time. At any rate there is a tool to deal with it so it's not really a problem. Good luck, doc! Michael On Jul 5, 1:46 am, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 4:34 AM, aahan.dewdrop <[email protected]> wrote: > > hii.. > > im a medical student preparing fr speciality exams...since the > > material is vast,...i planned to share the job of loading our material > > in to mnemosyne deck as flash cards among my > > friends...like...cardiology me...neurology one of my frnds... renal > > another...since all of us work on our own personal computers at > > home...nd bcos we r sharing the work of making flashcards ...nd bcos > > ultimately i need to hav all the categories on a single deck...ie > > ultimately i need all the categories...made by me nd my frnds as > > well ....on my laptop...how could it be done...could the .mnemosyne > > directory from all my frnds be saved in to a single laptop...ie mine?? > > plz do help me... i will be waiting anxiously fr ur reply... > > thanks...take care.... > > It's very difficult to figure out what you're asking because your > writing is so bad. > > Is there some reason you guys cannot just create a category of cards, > and then export and share that category? You wouldn't want to share > the same deck because then everyone's schedules will get mixed up and > be utterly useless. > > -- > gwern -- 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.
