On Sep 24, 1:57 pm, mzatanoskas <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Yes, this is a very accurate description of the issue. (Sorry, I forgot to check this group to see if there had been replies to my post.) If Michael meant how do I distinguish current from back-burner cards in Mnemosyne: I have a separate category for each opening, and openings that I'm not active playing get a category starting with "Old". > 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). Yeah - also, when I find that I have more trouble with a particular category in general, I'll by default rate them 3s or even 2s even when I remember the cards fine. -- 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.
