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> And finally, here are the results: > > http://qsdeutschland.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/chart_1.png > > The stacked bars show the total cards in my “deck,” broken down by rating. As > you can see, I was adding 20-80 cards every day for twenty days, about a > chapter a day, and when I finished the book, the last ten days were just > spent reviewing cards. You can see at the end that according to my own target > of 4 or better, I had learned well over 500 new German words by the end of > the month. And I knew these words outside the context of these drills, > recognized many of them in other settings, and even managed to use a few in > everyday conversation. http://qsdeutschland.de/en/why-isnt-spaced-repetition-software-more-popular-part-2/ > Why not? Here are some of those “obvious reasons”… > > Not enough feedback, or not the right kind. This is a critical one. Notice > that the graph I showed you — progress over time — does not come standard in > Mnemosyne. I had to record that data every day in Excel and make it myself. > You can get “snapshot” charts in the app, but not time-oriented ones, which > are a better motivator. The current statistics plugin can show you cards added per day, and it can show you grade breakdown over the entire deck, but it can't show you anything similar to that PNG with the growth of your deck and the growth of 4/5 cards over time. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
