I get this too occasionally ... running Linux (64 bit) on a netbook.
First time it happened I thought I had a faulty card and deleted it!
Dougie
On 17/05/2012 08:23, Murray James Morrison wrote:
I can second Dan's issue. I've had this problem with other images
files (jpgs, gifs) for a few
On 28/03/2012 07:43, Peter Bienstman wrote:
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 08:29:29 PM Dougie Nisbet wrote:
I'm quite happy with this setup and I only raise the subject as I'm
interested to know if there's anything I've missed (such as temp files
being created)
Well, if your sensitive data
I think I've found a quirk in Cloze-Deletion. It's best explained by
example.
Enter the following as a Cloze Deletion card:
TEST CARD
[iAesculus hippocastanum/i (Horse Chestnut)]
[buds] are [sticky]. Below each [bud] there is a distinct [horse-shoe]
shaped [leaf scar].
What I'm finding
On 07/03/2012 17:00, Scott Youngman wrote:
Dougie, have you edited the [buds] part of that card after it had been
put into the review cycle (that is, after clicking yet to learn when
first creating the card)?
[ ... ]
I have concluded that it
is unreliable to edit a cloze card once it has
On 07/03/2012 18:31, Scott Youngman wrote:
... Finally I added it as a new card completely, with the title TEST
CARD and gave it its own category 'tests', and the behaviour
persists.
Do you mean you have the problem even with a new card which was not
edited after being added to the database?
I've just installed beta-11 on debian.
I think a brief check-list on the website might be handy. Just a few
bullet points perhaps on what the install sequence might be, I have
little idea how bzr works and each time I use it followed by the make
sequence I usually hit problems. I usually end
On 23/02/2012 07:40, Peter Bienstman wrote:
This info is in the tips of the day and the contextual help, but I guess you
haven't run across it yet :-)
BTW, searching on tags, within the card browser, I find the search
facility erratic. Sometimes it misses cards, and sometimes it only
On 23/02/2012 08:57, Peter Bienstman wrote:
The text box where you can type is just for contents of the cards.
ah .. I've got it now. Yes, that would explain what I'm seeing.
Dougie
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On 20/02/2012 17:17, Gwern Branwen wrote:
On Debian Squeeze,
I'm on Debian Wheezy/Testing so my setup is probably a little different.
I can't recall the details but I know it did take several iterations
before I finally had all the dependencies installed. Looking back
through my install
On 20/02/2012 19:24, Peter Bienstman wrote:
Anyway, just do 'sudo make install-system' to install it globally.
A word of caution with 'sudo' on debian systems. Having migrated to
Debian from Ubuntu (via Linux Mint) I've been caught out on a few
occasions with sudo as I believe debian does
Thanks for the ideas, I'll look into giving it a try.
Dougie
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Sent: 26 January 2012 07:25
To: mnemosyne-proj-users
Subject: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re:
I would be interested to hear views on how to use Mnemosyne 2.x for learning
map symbols and control descriptions as used in orienteering competitions.
Examples of what I mean can be found in this pdf document:
http://orienteering.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IOF-Control-Descriptions-
On 10/01/2012 18:43, Gnome wrote:
Here are some bugs and feedback:
* Right click'Open image' does not work.
* Right click'Save image' does not work. Copy image makes this
function unnecessary, you could easily copy it to an image editor then
save it, how about changing it to 'Open file
On 23/12/2011 16:25, Peter Bienstman wrote:
Some more things that cross my mind: to setup a sync, at the moment you need
to start from an *empty* database on the client, and then during the first
sync, the client will download the full database from the server. Is this how
you did it?
That
On 23/12/2011 08:57, Peter Bienstman wrote:
On Thursday, December 22, 2011 07:19:43 PM Dougie Nisbet wrote:
It's just a straightforward home LAN. server is 192.168.1.4, client is
192.168.1.5, both running Linux Mint Debian Edition. Is there a way of
turning debug on or writing to a logfile? I
although it took a few attempts to get it to upload. I also uploaded
it to my vimeo account but I suspect the playback is the same whether
you go to zenfolio or vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/34121124
The vimeo video (link above) seems to be better under HD than the
zenfolio link.
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I've just tried to use the synch server using 2.x. The server will be
192.168.1.4. On the client I've entered the details and it appears to
login ok but then nothing happens. The progress bar doesn't move.
Screenshot here:
http://www.fellandforest.co.uk/p788391640/h2efdcc9c#h2efdcc9c
I also
I notice that when I do the
|bzr branch lp:mnemosyne-proj
thing to get the beta code, it won't work if the mnemosyne-proj
directory already exists. If I delete the directory I lose the datadir:
~/mnemosyne-prog/mnemosyne/dot_mnemosyne2
what's the best way to do a beta upgrade without
One of the reasons I wanted to investigate the 2.x synch option is that
I thought it might allow me to run mnemosyne on different platforms. At
the moment I only run under Linux, using rsync to keep the data
synchronised across machines. This is is simple and works well.
When I run 2.x for
On 22/12/2011 13:02, Peter Bienstman wrote:
On Thursday, December 22, 2011 11:05:31 AM Dougie Nisbet wrote:
When I run 2.x for the first time and it imports the 1.x database it
produces lots (about 50+) import errors with a window pop-up 'media not
found'. This is a slight nuisance as I have
On 22/12/2011 12:46, Peter Bienstman wrote:
What I do, since I don't use 1.x anymore, is just installing it
system-wide using 'sudo make install-system', and then use the default
datadir location (~/.local/share/mnemosyne/ for data and
~/.config/mnemosyne/ for config)
That sounds a better
On 22/12/2011 15:20, Peter Bienstman wrote:
On Thursday, December 22, 2011 01:51:05 PM Dougie Nisbet wrote:
On 22/12/2011 13:02, Peter Bienstman wrote:
On Thursday, December 22, 2011 11:05:31 AM Dougie Nisbet wrote:
When I run 2.x for the first time and it imports the 1.x database it
produces
On 22/12/2011 12:51, Peter Bienstman wrote:
The server will be
192.168.1.4. On the client I've entered the details and it appears to
login ok but then nothing happens. The progress bar doesn't move.
Screenshot here:
http://www.fellandforest.co.uk/p788391640/h2efdcc9c#h2efdcc9c
a little
On 22/12/2011 19:01, Peter Bienstman wrote:
The only thing I can think of right now is that perhaps there is proxy
involved in your lan. There is proxy transversal code in the sync
protocol, but it's never been tested in anger since I don't have a
proxy myself.
It's just a straightforward
On 20/11/2011 19:48, Peter Bienstman wrote:
As long as it's not packaged by a distro, running 2.0 will be a bit
complicated technology wise, and even slightly more at the moment, since there
is not yet a complete source package.
Instructions are here:
http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/hacking.php
I have not explored it in detail yet but a couple of things are
immediately noticable.
1. Image size. I've now tried 2.x on a desktop and netbook and in both
cases the image display is too small and I can't resize the
Question/Answer pane. The Answer pane seems to take up about 1/3rd of
the
I've a feeling this has come up before but I can't find the previous
references.
I can't resize the question and answer panes and I'm assuming this is
WAD. For images this can be a bit frustrating as the answer is usually
only a single line of text, and I'd rather maximise the amount of
On 29/11/2011 07:52, Peter Bienstman wrote:
Is this 2.0 or 1.x? Normally, in 2.0 the sound of the previous card
should
stop when you display a new card.
Peter
I haven't checked in a while but I recall having exactly the same issue
as the OP, and on bird sounds as it happens! (1.x under
On 30/11/2011 15:11, Peter Bienstman wrote:
On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 02:51:40 PM Dougie Nisbet wrote:
On 29/11/2011 07:52, Peter Bienstman wrote:
Is this 2.0 or 1.x? Normally, in 2.0 the sound of the previous card
should
stop when you display a new card.
Peter
I haven't checked
On 20/11/2011 19:48, Peter Bienstman wrote:
On Sunday 20 Nov 2011 08:49:31 Henrik in Oslo wrote:
Thanks for the great work taking place!
I have been happily running Mnemosyne ver 1.2.2 on Win7 since easter
2011. This is still (besides on-going Supermemo 7...) my tool for
daily learning.
I
Yes that is interesting. It would explain a few things. I know in my
experience if I'm reading something that I find very interesting and
easy to understand I assume that I will remember it better, and get very
frustrated when some time later I can't recall the information. This
might explain
On 27/08/2011 21:18, Peter Bienstman wrote:
1.x was fundamentally broken in the sence that if you had images larger than
the screen, that would push the controls beyond reach, so something definitely
had to be done about this, as many people complained about this. That's the
reason why there
On 22/05/2011 23:41, mzatanoskas wrote:
Out of interest and completely off topic, why did you switch from
ubuntu to mint?
well as it's off-topic I'll keep it brief.
Ubuntu is fine and mint is based on Ubuntu anyway. But Ubuntu is getting
glitzier and snazzier all the time and I don't like
+1
Oh yes, an Undo. Gets my vote. I've often accidentally misgraded cards
and it just feels so wrong!
On 23/05/2011 19:25, Michael Campbell wrote:
I would love exactly this feature. not sure if it could be done with
a plugin or not, but I've misgraded cards many times and would love an
Yes, as time goes on, I'm more of an end-user than an under-the-hood
tinkerer, and looking for a stable platform for my apps that isn't too
dated that it won't run them at all, but not so bleeding edge that it
just feels like glitz and eye-candy and a brooding cauldron of instability.
So when
On 23/12/2010 18:17, Mikhail Gavryuchkov wrote:
Or, if Patrick doesn't read this forum, can anyone please forward this
request to him?
As a side note. I think if you implement this feature you'll have a
higher adoption from card creators - especially those who are
associated with some more
Thanks for looking into it Peter.
My use of mnemosyne is now pretty steady consistent but in the early
days there was potentially a bit of corruption as I was trying different
setups. Initially I imported cards from supermemo that I used to run on
my old Palm Tungsten PDA. It often surprises
On 20/11/2010 10:15, Wim Woittiez wrote:
I'm curious to hear how many of you are really using these techniques,
and how you feel about the subject!
One of the reasons I didn't pursue Anki was the little countdown timer
in the corner. It drove me nuts. I do more and more work in mnemosyne
On 20/11/2010 13:55, Oisín wrote:
I've rarely used mnemonics when learning in Mnemosyne though, because
I worried that it might circumvent the process of getting things into
my long-term memory (i.e. when I have to use a mnemonic to recall an
item, is it cheating? Or does it reinforce the
That's a lovely word. Easiness. I'm going to start slipping it into
conversations!
Dougie
On 18/11/2010 16:16, Peter Bienstman wrote:
The interval is reset, but not it's easiness. (That's how the original SM2
algorithm works, too)
Peter
On Thursday, November 18, 2010 04:59:02 pm Dougie
On 16/09/2010 07:04, Peter Bienstman wrote:
On 15/09/2010 22:28, Michael Campbell wrote:
You can put images wherever you want, no? The card question/answer is
what tells the application where to find it, per card.
Pre-packaged decks of course need to have them in a specific spot
since the
On 17/09/2010 22:05, Oisín wrote:
On 17 September 2010 21:16, Dougie Nisbet substatio...@googlemail.com
mailto:substatio...@googlemail.com wrote:
Your comment regarding file deletion is interesting. Sometimes I
delete a card when I'm reviewing (it it's a poor image for example
Images are becoming the main component of my mnemosyne workflow. I
usually do by reviews on my laptop, which has limited screen size. I
often don't see the 1-5 choices at the bottom of the screen because
there's not enough space. This isn't a problem as I do all my mnemosyne
stuff keyboard
On 15/09/2010 22:28, Michael Campbell wrote:
You can put images wherever you want, no? The card question/answer is
what tells the application where to find it, per card.
Pre-packaged decks of course need to have them in a specific spot
since the cards and images must match on location, but
On 13/09/2010 12:27, Tony wrote:
I think a good feature to add is a slideshow mode, where you don't
have to press any buttons, the cards will just show the answers by
themselves and move on to the next card automatically. The user should
be able to adjust the time between flipping cards and
On 09/06/2010 11:20, Timothy Bourke wrote:
On Jun 9 at 10:21 +0100, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
I decided to give mnemogogo a try and it all appeared to install without
many problems. However, when I try and 'export' from mnemosyne I always
get the same error in a pop-up. I have experimented
On 07/02/2010 12:20, Peter Bienstman wrote:
Keep the suggestions coming!
As I'm a keyboard fan I often notice when can't do things without
moving my hand or fingers more than a few centimetres. If I am working
through a deck and I am not doing well, e.g. if it contains a lot of new
On 07/02/2010 18:22, Gwern Branwen wrote:
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Dougie Nisbetdjnis...@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/02/2010 12:20, Peter Bienstman wrote:
Keep the suggestions coming!
As I'm a keyboard fan I often notice when can't do things without moving my
hand or
Charles Berghofer wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I am using this program to learn Thai, Isaan Thai in particular.
My problem is that when I am answering the day's questions I often
seem to get the vice-versa card right after the first one. In other
words I get A - B and then B - A which I can answer
Peter Bienstman wrote:
It's a directory added to support this:
http://www.tbrk.org/software/svgtoquiz.html
Peter
That looks fantastic. Exactly what I'm looking for.
Thanks,
Dougie
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I was wondering if anyone had any experiences to share or advice to
offer regarding using mnemosyne to learn items based on labelled
diagrams. This is probably best explained by example.
If you look at http://www.biotopics.co.uk/plants/leafst.html it shows
the structure of a leaf. If I was to
Gwern Branwen wrote:
Why would you duplicate it? Is there something wrong with the 'card
style=answerbox: overlay/' trick?
I have no idea what that is. I'm assuming it's some HTML that I can
learn. I'll look into it.
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Robert Gravina wrote:
The reason I use Mnemosyne is that there is a research project behind
it,
I've been thinking about this a bit recently in light of the discussion
regarding cramming. As I see it I am falsely recording my score as 0 or
1, and sometimes 2, as I deliberately want to see the
mzatanoskas wrote:
Choice can be quite paralyzing sometimes which is why I initially just
got on with using mnemosyne.
nicely put. That's pretty much what I found and decided that as
mnemosyne did what I wanted simply and without fuss why bother spending
more time looking at other SRS
I'm using menomsyne in anger now and finding some things don't work as I
anticipated. My main application is learning botanical names and using
the images for plant identification. I use f-spot (
http://f-spot.org/Main_Page ) to store and tag photos as it's great for
hierarchical tagging then
Peter Bienstman wrote:
The main one being that anki
imports and renames image files that you may wish to use in your cards
and holds them in a flat folder structure. I don't want to do that. I
deliberately rename jpegs to have meaningful names and contain useful
exif data and resized to suit
How does 'Learn ahead of Schedule' work? (I'm from a Supermemo on Palm
PDA backround).
Although I'm using mnemosyne for long-term memorising I need to learn
things in the short term. (I quite liked the anki feature of basing
repeat intervals on hourly granularity rather than by day).
If I
Peter Bienstman wrote:
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 11:46:49 am Dougie Nisbet wrote:
The material isn't 'already memorised' though as I've yet to learn it.
(the example is visual botantical idents using jpegs). I'm sure there
are many opinions and much research about the best way to learn
Peter Bienstman wrote:
I would not overuse 'learn ahead', it has a risk of messing up your
scheduling
if you do so.
ok, noted. thanks.
Dougie
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mzatanoskas wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I think mnemosyne is wonderful, but I thought I'd
ask other mnemosyne users who have had experience of other SRSs why
they prefer mnemosyne over the others.
There are several quality reviews on the web comparing different SRS
systems and anki often
Michael Campbell wrote:
I also use it as a way to schedule the order of things I practice (I'm taking
music lessons), and a day is meaningless; I just want it to show me things
in
the order of badness that I've graded them. Not sure this setting would
help
here, as I'm just doing each
OldGrantonian wrote:
On Sep 21, 8:45 am, Dougie Nisbet djnis...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps you need to write down your
requirements then methodically try as many flashcard programs as
possible to find the one that best fits your needs.
Here are some of the programs I tried
OldGrantonian wrote:
On Sep 21, 9:47 am, Dougie Nisbet djnis...@gmail.com wrote:
I like using hot-keys a lot
1) The anki FAQ mentions hot keys:
http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#Aretherekeyboardshortcuts.3F
I don't know how I missed that as I was sure
, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Dougie Nisbet djnis...@gmail.com
wrote:
OldGrantonian wrote:
On Sep 21, 9:47 am, Dougie Nisbet djnis...@gmail.com wrote:
I like using hot-keys a lot
1) The anki FAQ mentions hot
Peter Bienstman wrote:
On Thursday 17 September 2009 03:29:01 pm Dougie Nisbet wrote:
This is the only feature I could really do with in 2.x that would be
handy right now or would appreciate knowing a work-around. One
work-around I was going to explore (I'm still new to mnemosyne
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