> In short, mnemosyne and "real life" aren't different for me; the "real life" > reviews only serve to also train me, and mnemosyne helps fill in the gaps > with its timing, which is affected by my ratings, which is affected by both > in and out of system reviews.
This is fine and works well, it's the best situation especially if you can get a good mesh between the flashcard information and the real life experience (which after all is why we bother to learn the stuff in mnemosyne in the first place), the (small) problem lies when suddenly that outside stimulus disappears. > > This definitely affects me. I use Mnemosyne to remember chess > > openings, both ones I am currently using and ones that I have on the > > back burner. I fail a significantly larger fraction of the non-active > > ones, because I am not constantly being forced to review them in real > > life outside of Mnemosyne. I can't think of a good way to account for > > it, though. On Sep 23, 11:02 pm, Michael Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > How do you distinguish "currently using" and "back burner" cards? Obviously I can't speak for Dan's specific situation, but how it might apply to the problem I brought up is: Say in preparation for a big chess tournament you enter a bunch of new chess openings into mnemosyne. You decide to focus on using these openings actively in the tournament. Every time you use, come across these openings in a game outside mnemosyne, you get an extra repetition that helps you remember the move. No problem here, that's probably a good thing to anchor the flashcard info to real life. However when you face the card in mnemosyne and rate it a 5, because you've been using the opening every day for the past week in your tournament, it thinks that the last time you saw it was two weeks ago. Mnemosyne decides that 2 weeks is far too short a gap and so the next gap is now a month or so. Your chess tournament ends, and now you don't play chess every day and don't come across that chess opening at all until the next time mnemosyne brings it up a month later. Your repetition gaps (including those outside mnemosyne) have therefore gone something like 1 day, 2 days, 4 days, (start tournament) 1 day, 1 day, 1 day, 1 day, 1 day, 1 day, (end tournament) 1 month. That last gap was far too long and you forget the card. If you look at cards with a very long repetition gap this situation can happen quite easily. Another situation this could happen would be for botanical species identification, when the seasons change, the summer species that you were identifying every weekend are gone and you lose all those bonus repetitions, whilst mnemosyne thinks you have a much more solid long- term grasp of those plants than you actually do. Maybe you initially enter local species into mnemosyne whilst you are on a sabbatical year long field trip in Siberia. When you move back to the US, those local species might be tricky to remember if you are not careful. As Peter mentioned there's not much mnemosyne can do about this other than start mind reading, but the way I try and deal with it is to be aware of it, be aware when I'm coming across certain flashcards a lot outside mnemosyne and rate those cards correspondingly lower when tested. For cards I haven't seen in a long time, I'll also rate them a 1 if I struggle at all to remember, to play it on the safe side. This is also for the reasons that Oisin mentioned (if I struggle in mnemosyne then I don't have a hope in real life). -- 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.
