Thanks for the link, Chris. I'll read that and give it another shot...
Mvh.
Randi
Den 07-12-2010 22:52, Chris skrev:
I'm not really cramming... I'm taking Nursing, Anatomy& Physiology,
Cell& Molecular biology, and related health sciences, and my load is
26 credits (where I'm at 15 is considered a full-time load). So, as
compared to what people do as "cramming" at the last minute, I'm
basically required to be consistently cramming, every day of every
week.
As for Randi, the best advice I can give is take the time to read
through www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm and you should be able
to make fantastic cards. It's a quite long page, but it is
excellent. I use a whole bunch of different techniques on my cards--
that page will give you an idea of most of them. Using a broad range
of techniques and judging an appropriate one for each card, I am able
to learn a ton of information very quickly.
Michaël, that sounds like an awesome idea. That way I could even be
adding new cards each day and keeping up with them. I hope it will
work. Your comment made me think--if I just save Mnemosyne on day 1,
and reload it on day 11, would I even have to play with my computer's
dates? Wouldn't the day of reaload--day 11--then be day 1 to
Mnemosyne?
P.S. I do understand the basics of learning (e.g., that cramming is
not optimal)--I am consistently getting 100% in my tests thanks to
Mnemosyne (along with understanding how to optimize the cards for
recall in other contexts).
- Chris
On Dec 7, 12:21 pm, Michael Campbell<[email protected]>
wrote:
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.
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