On Sep 22, 4:26 pm, Michael Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > How I work it is this: If the # of cards I am scheduled to do today is over > 60, I just do at least 60. For a while you'll be in this mode, just doing > your daily quota of total. That's ok. > > When you start seeing fewer than your daily quota today, just work on > today's scheduled plus whatever you'd forgotten until tomorrow's number hits > 60.
That does sound like a good solution to managing the quota problem. > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Christoph Groth <[email protected]> wrote: > > However, she feels that she is asked too often about cards which she > > already has graded with a 5. That's something I've noticed too especially early on. Personally I feel there should be a bigger difference between the grades 2-5 early on in the learning process. Ie if a card is marked a 5 straight away, it shouldn't come back for 3 weeks or so. Another 5 and it should be banished for a couple of months. In contrast, 2 should be an automatic next day review. I also think that how long it took you to remember a card initially should affect the "difficulty" of the card and the initial review gaps. ie if I have seen a card 10 times or so and keep on marking it a 0 or a 1 before finally remembering it and marking it a 2, it should be marked as significantly more difficult than a card I see once and immediately mark it a 2. As far as I can tell right now, there is no difference between the two situations. While we're on the subject, I feel that a "2" should be a more powerful "hit" in general. At the repetition= a month or two stage, I often found I can barely remember a card and grade it a 2. I notice that the subsequent gap is still very long at least another couple of months. When I come to that card the next time, again I can barely remember it and grade it a 2 again. Problem is that although I am still "remembering" this card, 2 for me is not a satisfactory level of memory, it usually means that I won't remember it at all in the real world outside my room, when I'm not in front of my computer. I'd much rather the algorithm halve that repetition gap on the initial "2" grading and then let me work that gap longer again as I enter consecutive "4"s. As it is in this situation I usually grade cards as a 0 or 1 instead, even though I do actually remember the card. I realise the algorithm should not be changed because of one user's "anecdotal" evidence/personal whim, but I thought I'd just mention my observations anyway. Bonus question/thought: how does mnemosyne/SRS theory deal with the fact that flashcards/information we learn aren't confined to the SRS software environment/individual flashcard themselves. What I mean by that is, say I have a flashcard "X". This flashcard is never going to be the only place that contains that information. Depending on the card I'm going to come across this info outside mnemosyne more or less often, and thus get "bonus" reviews that mnemosyne cannot take into account. Often related flashcards are going to stimulate the memory of this info as well. If a similar flashcard "Y" that stimulates the memory of card "X" comes up the day before X does, when I get to X I might mark it a much higher grade that it really deserves. This probably doesn't matter too much, but one situation I thought of was of learning foreign vocab in a foreign country on a year abroad. While you are abroad this vocab you are entering into your SRS is going to be coming up on a regular basis. By the end of the year, you are going to have some very long repetition gaps on some of your vocab, but because you've been hearing some of these words quite often outside the SRS, the gaps are not correct. When you leave the country and stop hearing these words in your daily environment, all the gaps are too long and you forget all the words?!! -- 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.
