1. Life means suffering 2. The origin of suffering is attachment.
3. The cessation of suffering is attainable. 4. The path to the cessation of suffering. Mnemosyne is great for learning new stuff, but if you are getting greedy about "knowing stuff" and it is hurting you - maybe you need to reevaluate and stop being so attached to the totally insignificant number of "scheduled cards". Sorry about being so unhelpful! :-) Jan Egil Hagen On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, as its a Buddhist Vipassana monastery where I will be isolated > and observing noble silence for 10 days and meditating for just over > 10 hours of each of those days (not to mention the simple fact that > technology is not allowed), that isn't really a plausible option. > Also, when I get back there will be new things I need to start > learning right away. > > Any suggestions given those limiting factors? > > - Chris > > On Dec 6, 11:41 pm, Jan Egil Hagen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Re: your first question. Ideally, you should keep doing the repetitions > > during the holiday. Bring the laptop and schedule some "me-time" every > day > > to get through the cards. If this seems like too much of a waste of an > > expensive and wonderful holiday, you could just stop caring about the > > scheduled cards count. 4000 unread cards, so effing what? Make sure you > have > > the time to do a couple of hundred more than normal every day when you > get > > back and it will soon come down to 0. > > > > JEH > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Chris <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, quick question which I can't figure out (I have no programming / > > > scripting knowledge whatsoever, but I am computer literate). > > > > > I'm a university student, and at the rate I'm consistently learning > > > and adding cards, I have 350-400 scheduled cards per day, which take > > > quite a while to go through. > > > > > There are two things I want to figure out how to do: > > > > > 1) I will be going away for ~11 days. I do not want to have >4000 > > > scheduled cards when I get back, because I will never be able to catch > > > up and the program will become basically useless (as I will not be > > > able to get past the scheduled cards in order to learn new cards). Is > > > there any sort of vacation setting or way to pause the scheduling of > > > cards for a period of time? > > > > > 2) Secondly, based on the first question, if I do miss a couple days > > > and have a buildup of scheduled cards, is there anyway to force them > > > back into the future? Likewise, when I want to learn <i>new</i> cards > > > quickly (e.g., in the few days before an exam), is there a way to stop > > > old scheduled cards from coming up temporarily, so I can learn the > > > important new ones first? > > > > > Thanks for your time and consideration, Chris S. > > > > > -- > > > 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]> > <mnemosyne-proj-users%[email protected]<mnemosyne-proj-users%[email protected]> > > > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > > World works; done by its invalids > > -- > 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. > > -- World works; done by its invalids -- 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.
