On Friday, March 04, 2011 03:27:25 pm Michael Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]>wrote: > > If I may ask, why do you find directly entering cards in Mnemosyne not > > convenient? Many people seem to enter their info first in a text file, > > but to me > > that seems like long detour, so I'm curious to find out why people do > > this. > > I can only speak for me of course, but here's why I usually do it this way. > > I'm a programmer by trade (and an older one at that) and as such grew up > with tools that allow many and varied ways of text manipulation, and am > also a reasonably proficient touch-typist. It's easier, and almost always > faster for me to gather the data I need for cards, then use text editors, > stream editors, shell and/or python/perl/ruby scripts to manipulate that > data into one of the importable formats Mnemosyne uses.
OK, thanks for the feedback! > When entering more than a couple cards, doing so through the application > would be far slower for me. Also knowing that you can enter many cards at once in Mnemosyne using just the keyboard? question <tab> answer <cntrl+2>, <cntrl+3>, ... to select the initial grade Peter -- 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.
