Hi Nick, Thanks for the advice. I guess I just have to wait for 2.0 for Mac to be ready . . .
Quick question along the lines of spacing issues: when using Mnemosyne for something like vocabulary, when would one use the "zero" category? I currently only use it when a word is first introduced and I quite literally do not recognize it. However I try to use Mnemosyne not only for word recognition and translation, but for spelling as well - so I wonder if I shouldn't be using the zero category (for horrible misspellings . . . ). Thoughts? Rax On Dec 7, 11:35 pm, Nick Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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%2Bun > > [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.
