Hi,

Personally, I'm not convinced that later versions offer all that much 
improvement over older versions. Keep in mind that predicting intervals is a 
heuristic anyway, and not an exact science. Additionally, Supermemo is 
commercial software, so having a new scheduler each release is a nice 
commercial selling point :-)

Finally, Mnemosyne is built in a very modular fashion, so if somebody wants to 
write a plugin with a different scheduler, that's entirely possible.

Cheers,

Peter

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Subject: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Why don't anki or mnemosyne use newer SM 
versions?

Hi everyone! I'm new here.

I've been using spaced repetition software for quite a while with the 
"repetitions" app, and later on switched to the new tinycards app from the 
creators of duolingo. However, the webapp limitation to have only 150 cards per 
collection is really frustrating me and I've been evaluating anki or mnemosyne 
as a new flashcard app.

I've noticed, though, that both anki and mnemosyne seem to use something called 
SM 2 algorithm to calculate the frequency of repetition. However, I've also 
seen that SuperMemo (creators of the sm algorithm?) works with a much newer 
version. 

Upon doing some more research I came across this site that explains what has 
been improved with each iteration. 
https://www.supermemo.com/help/smalg.htm#Historic_note:_earlier_releases_of_the_algorithm

It all sounds good and the latest versions seem to improve the older versions 
in very convenient ways.

Now I'm also intrigued about using supermemo, but I still do like some 
featurese that mnemosyne has, like different types of cards so that I can add 
pronunciation to the words that I learn in other languages.

What's the reason behind sticking to version 2 of SM? I can't help but to feel 
like we're missing optimizations. I want to pick a new flashcard software ASAP 
but this makes it quite hard.

Cheers!

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