That's quite clever Rax, and a good point about the spacing issues. There is an easy solution to your sorting issue. Use the ISO date format, 2010-02-31.
It works because the categories are text which sorts alphabetically. To a computer 0-9 are characters, just like letters. Numbers come before 'a' and in ascending order. Try to sort 1, 9, 22, and 02 alphabetically. Dates in the ISO format are the same in alphabetical and in chronological order. The same concept works with any numeric text that your computer sorts. Nick On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 19:19, G. <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's a trick I use: create an alternative Mnemosyne library (or > deck, > or whatever the set of all categories is called") - it can be > completely > empty, it doesn't matter, but so far as I can tell, while you have > one > library loaded, Mnemosyne doesn't keep track of the others (so the > days > basically don't progress). > > I use this for Arabic vocabulary acquisition in a university class > and > find this to be more effective than just 'catching up' later as the > catch up method skews my response by repeating some of the cards > within > a single session (i.e. within the same day): giving me a false sense > of > how well I know the card. > > As for focusing on most recent material, I use the categories for > this, > usually I have all categories selected, but when push comes to shove > (ahem: exams), I shift my focus towards the most recently added > categories. > > If you can afford the generality in the categories - you can even > title > them by add-date, allowing you to focus on material added in the last > X days/ > weeks/months etc. > > The only problem with the above is that categories are listed in a > strange way > such that number > 9 are listed after the leading number (e.g. for 12 > chapters, > they list as follows: 1, 10,11, 12, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) and I've > not found > a means of selecting only certain categories (e.g. 4, 7, 9) without > selecting > all the ones in between. > > Indeed, enjoy the retreat! (&nd I can't believe you're doing 26 > credits ~ that's > actually insane). > > ~ Rax > > -- > 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.
