Well, yes and no. Do stick to your guns and work on some every day, but it's only overwhelming if you consider it so, and I'm not trying to be "zen" here. The size of the backlog isn't relevant, really, as long as you do some every day. If you do actually learn the facts, you can do 1 per day and you'd eventually get through a deck of any size.
For me, I find it a lot easier to maintain a constant workflow per day than to worry about how many I have to do. I have a deck that started with something like 3300 new facts (it's a language deck). I installed the plugin that shows me how many cards I have scheduled for the next few days. I work on "new" cards and "forgetten" cards (i.e., whatever mnemosyne schedules for me for the day) until I have a schedule of 20 *for tomorrow*. I do my scheduled stuff then let it feed me forgotten and new cards until the counter for tomorrow says "20". Sometimes it's over 20, but never by much. This way I get a smattering of new stuff every few days as I work through the backlog. Sometimes I NEVER get new cards; sometimes I get a lot; it just depends. My 3300 is down to 3000, and although it may take me quite a long time to get to the point that I'm JUST doing the schedule, I AM getting through it. Mind you, I have no schedule that I need to have them done by; if you do have an end-point then this changes the situation. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is a good description of the spaced repetition algorithm > on the Project Mnemonyse web site: > > http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/principles.php > > Since the algorithm works in units of days you need to use the program > daily and complete all the scheduled cards otherwise you end up with > an overwhelming backlog! > > Charles > > > > Michael Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It's based on calendar date, but otherwise you have the idea right; you > > get > > -- > 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]<mnemosyne-proj-users%[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.
