Like many others intimated, I think this is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. *Ideally* you'd exhaust your scheduled cards every day, but from a practical standpoint, it doesn't really matter and going to these lengths I think is totally unnecessary. I have a brand new deck with over 3000 cards in it. I go through 20 cards a day, regardless of how many it has scheduled for me. It may take a long time to get through it, but it doesn't matter; eventually I will get through it and the "scheduled" number per day will be quite reasonable.
That said... I understand that my situation is such that I can afford to take however long it takes to get through the deck, and others might not have this luxury so you might have to "force it" a little to get done what you need. So, to the OP; if you have to memorize a lot of things in some number of days you can still go about it using mnemosyne; the naive mathematical approach is to do this many cards every day: (# of scheduled cards + # of "unmemorized" cards) / (# of days left in your time frame) Simply recalculate this number every day and do that many. Let the scheduler take care of what gets shown when. I've often wondered how differently my academic life would have been had I known about and used an SRS system at the time; I think it certainly would have helped, but it's not really a good way to 'cram'. 'Cramming' is a NOT a good way to learn, but it can be a moderately effective way to pass a test, and I realize that simply passing the test is a lot of what school can be sometimes. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:59 PM, unpeulent <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Could you not cheat with the clock of your computer ? > > Say : > - you backup your ".mnemosyne" folder ! > - you leave on day 1 > - you return on day 11 > - you change your computer clock : day 11 becomes day 2 > - you launch mnemosyne > - you learn whatever number of cards you want/can; say 500, 600, ... > - next day, you say it's day 4 (you've got to gradullay regain clock- > days), you launch mnemosyne > - next day, you say it's day 6, you launch mnemosyne > - and you repeat method this the following days, until you digest the > cards, and until the clock of your computer tells the right date > > It should be wise to test if this really can work (or ask Peter ^^). > > Michaël > > On Dec 7, 12:12 pm, "Randi H." <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is not always possible to chose when to learn what when at a > > university or other school :) > > > > A bit off topic... You say you're studying at a university. So am I. > > What are you studying? Is it possible to see some examples of your > > cards? I have tried as well to add some cards in relation to my studies > > but I find it hard to figure out what information to put in my cards, so > > I could use some inspiration. > > > > Mvh. > > Randi > > > > Den 07-12-2010 11:34, Peter Bienstman skrev: > > > > > In addition to what other people have said, I would also suggest adding > less > > > cards per day. 400 is already a pretty big workload, and there is a big > risk > > > of burning yourself out. > > > > > As for catching up, Mnemosyne will automatically show the most urgent > cards > > > first, so there is some rescheduling going on behind the scenes. > > > > > Enjoy the retreat, > > > > > Peter > > > > > On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 02:15:54 am Chris 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]> > . > 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.
