Hi, I'm afraid I don't have time to commit code to this myself, but of course you can write Mnemosyne importers and exporters for your project without any problems.
Good luck! Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:mnemosyne- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Piotr Wasik > Sent: 20 December 2014 22:08 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [mnemosyne-proj-users] New website with spaced repetitions and > incremental reading from the Web and pdfs > > Hi, > > > I am Piotr, it has been about 20 years since I first encountered Spaced > Repetition Software (SRS), first Supermemo and then Mnemosyne and Anki. > I just built my own website (http://buboflash.eu) for SRS, because I wanted > few features that I couldn't get in any existing software. I am announcing it > here so we can work towards content and learning process interchange > between Mnemosyne and Buboflash, hopefully also Anki (Supermemo will > be harder with its idionsyncracies). The overview of Buboflash is here: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc_7oAwmkTA > > The features I wanted and I built into Buboflash are: > > > * Crowd editable material of textbook quality, licenced under Creative > Commons wherever possible, like in Wikipedia. "Free" like in "freedom", i.e. > you can process and reuse the material, and "free" like in "free beer" - you > don't pay for it. We can create annotations (for incremental reading) and > flashcards from both internet and uploaded pdfs. The pdfs remain private by > default as they may be and usually are copyrighted, but all the annotations > and flashcards are shared. > * Collaboration - yes, I know we can exchange decks of cards in > Mnemosyne, Anki and in Supermemo, but it is no more collaboration than > say exchanging Word or Excel files between users. In Buboflash you can pick > friends who are interested in learning the same things as you are and you can > follow them. I added versioning system so we can share but we do not have > to agree on specific wording of the flashcard. Wikipedia is also crowdsourced > but in Wikipedia it is always the last version that wins, which is > unacceptable > for learning, people would overwrite each other's versions. In Buboflash > each user can bookmark a version he or she likes most. If you like my > changes, you accept them, otherwise you ignore them. > * Search - works on the entire database with sensible autocomplete. > * Integration between Mnemosyne, Anki and Buboflash. Content > should be easy, for me it is just html. Next, learning process - Supermemo > has a lot of "factors" that are proprietory algorithm parameters. Mnemosyne > and Anki are open source, so we know what different "factors" mean, but - I > really think that SRS programs should only exchange learning histories > (events) and recompute whatever internal parameters they want. This way > there is no guarantee that say Mnemosyne and BuboFlash would schedule > next repetition in the same way, but so what? At least both systems would > put their "best effort" to calculate next interval based on objective facts - > repetitions. So, I would just export and import learning histories, no > proprietory "factors" and "matrices". > * Last but not least, I am in a mood for Christmas promotion. See, I am > learning from the following books now: "Mastering Financial Calculations", > "Programming in Scala" and "Java 8 for the Impatient" - see my movie about > pdfs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W9J8DpPWcU So, back to > my Christmas gift: if you have your favourite textbook in paper format, send > it to me and I will scan it for you (destructively) and we can experiment with > incremental reading. Ping me at piotr.wasik[at]gmail.com Of course - unless > you explicitely "show it to a friend" - only you will be able to view and > download the pdf from Buboflash. Alternatively just google for "scan my > books in MyTown". > > > What do you think? > > Enjoy, > Piotr > > > -- > 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 mnemosyne-proj- > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/4c38a29a- > 3ddd-4057-ac1f-ab767e5cf9eb%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/4c38a29a- > 3ddd-4057-ac1f- > ab767e5cf9eb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=foo > ter> . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/004b01d01cf0%24085807a0%24190816e0%24%40UGent.be. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
