Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Flashcards and language learning

ards handy for getting started with "basic fact" information, but mostly for other topics rather than language learning. Thanks for sharing your insights on this. Oisín On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 at 11:11, Peter Bienstman wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this is interesting to anybody, b

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] How can I reset internal sync info?

I'm not sure why the maximum value would be big enough to overflow a signed int. Maybe it's a 32 bit int in the Android client, so when it's syncing really large files for example (>2gb?) it could trigger this overflow since it uses the total size of the files as the range for the progress bar (

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: next rep date

But the dates are years away because you probably know those cards quite well already. I think people tend to worry that they'll forget the cards because the next review date is unrealistic, but if there's a ton of cards then resetting them all is probably just creating extra "fake work" that

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Google text-to-speech error

u check if they're set to something like "en-US" and replace them with "en" to see if that helps? Oisín On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 20:08, W NW wrote: > Hi, thanks for taking time. > > Under Windows 7 I have been using Mnemosyne 2.7.3 since it was published > with no issues a

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Subject: Shot the installation – Please help!

still, every few months I'll run into problems and have to reinstall things. Well, it makes things exciting at least. Oisín On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 23:42, Carsten Alexander wrote: > Peter, > > > If you have troubles installing Pyqt5, that's not really a Mnemosyne > issue. > I

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Problems with latex

It seems like a conflict between two versions of Matplotlib. Is it possible that a different version is installed globally that takes precedence over whatever is in that mpl-data directory (which I'm not familiar with)? On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 07:23 Peter Bienstman, wrote: > What exactly are you

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne is crashing often on Ubuntu 18.04

I've observed the same problem many times. It's a problem with the open source nouveau driver for Nvidia cards, as Andreas points out. Unfortunately I've had poor experiences with this driver on two different machines, and it's both difficult to debug and apparently low priority in the Linux

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne will not launch -- Import error - QtWebEngineWidgets

I'm glad it worked for you Kevin! Yes, perhaps we should add this to a troubleshooting / FAQ section of the Mnemosyne homepage. Peter, what do you think? On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, 01:52 MrJay, wrote: > > > On Sunday, 15 September 2019 15:48:49 UTC-4, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: >> >

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne will not launch -- Import error - QtWebEngineWidgets

I'm curious if your active Python is not the system installed one. Perhaps you could try these commands: which python3 pip3 install PyQtWebEngine If the install fails due to a permission error, try: pip3 install --user PyQtWebEngine Oisín On Sun, 15 Sep 2019, 05:12 Peter Bienstman, wrote

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Continuous mode: ie show, pause, show-next

On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, 11:34 David Goadby, wrote: > I love mnemosyne. I am using it to improve my Welsh vocabulary mainly. > > Now, from time to time, it would be nice to have a rolling display of my > words without having to press a key and enter a score. Then I can do other > stuff on my PC and

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] RE "Target Machine actively refused it"

The error message sounds more like a firewall blocked access to the intended port. Maybe you can temporarily disable your firewall to test it? If it works, then you can add an exception to allow it to work as normal. On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 23:40, Heidi Woolford wrote: > Hi Peter, > > How are

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Install / Run problem on linux: device not open, and shader not linked

On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 7:51:44 PM UTC+1, Andreas wrote: > > Dear all, > I contacted Robert; however, I also tried to install from the tarball: > I got a bit further - the default python on my system was python2, which I > changed now to python3. > > However, the version compiled from

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] I started getting this error without updating mnemosyne

Looks like your Mnemosyne files are stored on an external drive which is mounted with the wrong permissions. I don't know what OS you're running, but guessing Ubuntu or some other Debian-based system. You could try the brute force "chown -R federico:federico /media/federico", but it might be

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Synching attempt rejected.

It sounds like the machine has changed its IP address, or your tablet is now on a different network. I'd suggest doublechecking on the PC and making sure the tablet is on the same LAN. Also check that the sync server is actually still running because the first error you quoted seemed to contradict

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] question regarding angel brackets <>

Maybe it's being interpreted as HTML tags. You could try using HTML entities instead: #include vector On 29 Apr 2017 12:57 pm, wrote: When I put some text in a card included in brackets like for example in " #include " only " #include " is displayed. These brackets

RE: [mnemosyne-proj-users] attach a PDF file

I think that even if this was supported, it would be a misuse of the program. The answer part of the card is supposed to be a narrowly focused atom of information. A tutorial or even a short list is not a good format and will lead to poor results. It's better to extract the core steps in the

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Help converting a file from Genius (Mac native software) to Mnemosyne

If you can find the file in Terminal (command prompt), you could do something like this: sed "28070q;d" broken-file.txt And you can probably do this if it "looks" okay but may have missing or extra tab characters, for example: sed "28070q;d" broken-file.txt | hexdump -C On 4 October 2016 at

RE: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne 2.3.6 released

If you have the basic Android development tools on your desktop machine, you could plug the phone in and run "adb logcat" to see if there was a stacktrace that would pinpoint the error. http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/86384/how-to-get-why-an-app-crashed On 21 Jul 2016 8:38 a.m.,

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Greetings from Mexico

Depends on what kind of knowledge. I put some piano sheet music on flashcards in Mnemosyne a few years ago and it worked pretty well, although I didn't keep up with that deck after passing the exam. Also made some flashcards recently for memorising Rubik's algorithms, but I devised a mnemonic

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: How to learn algorithms using spaced repetition

I'd agree with Peter in general for this kind of stuff; it's probably better to rewrite the code from scratch a couple of times (maybe a few different ways), and play some code golf or whatnot. However if you want to use SRS, I'd advise to reduce the code to higher level pseudocode (i.e. not

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Using latex

Perhaps rather than whining about it, you could document the steps you used to solve the problem so other people can be helped in future. On 27 Sep 2014 15:52, Neil Bowser neilbow...@gmail.com wrote: I've sorted it. No thanks to anyone on here. On Friday, 26 September 2014 14:09:16 UTC+1,

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Hacking the Mnemosyne databse

Would exporting and re-importing the deck at this point sidestep the potential sync issues? On 2 September 2014 17:30, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: Then I will not be able to help you if you run into sync problems... Peter -Original Message- From:

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Maximum number of cards with graphics in Mnemosyne?

I don't think the entire deck is loaded into RAM at once, and certainly images are not; rather, they're loaded on demand (i.e. as the card is being displayed) and can be removed automatically from memory afterwards thanks to the magic of garbage collection. The size of the cards themselves is very

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] PETER PERSONAL REQUEST THANK YOU

On 13 June 2014 19:55, Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:50:04AM -0700, annonymous wrote: Thank you for your help. I just wanted to ask if you could please delete my email from the message I just sent; it is peacenati...@gmail.com. I did not realize it

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Norton removing Mnemosyne 2.3 as unsafe program

I don't know anything about Norton Internet Security, but out of curiosity I ran the installer through Jotti's malware scan, which tested the file with 22 scanners. None of them reported that they had detected a virus. You can check the results here:

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne Studylock- A tool for those with severe ADHD

home later. all the best, Oisín On Monday, March 10, 2014 8:03:23 PM UTC+9, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: On 10 March 2014 07:44, Alex . alexf...@gmail.com wrote: -Random User presence test: Now a test will occur at random times during the study lock in which the user will have 10

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne Studylock- A tool for those with severe ADHD

On 10 March 2014 07:44, Alex . alexfev...@gmail.com wrote: -Random User presence test: Now a test will occur at random times during the study lock in which the user will have 10 seconds to follow an instruction on the console or receive a time penalty of 100 seconds.

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Spaced repetition with gamification elements

know if any significant work has been done to quantify the benefits of it all. Haven't heard of any efforts to gamify Mnemosyne, although with the plugin system almost anything is theoretically possible. Oisín Thanks, Mads *) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification -- You received

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] What is the last .dmg version of Mnemosyne that will run on Mac Leopard 10.5.8?

/mnemosyne-proj-users/s6cE3AAVbWk , from Oisín Mac Fhearaí, stating Starting with version 2.2.1, Mnemosyne once again runs on OS X Leopard (10.5) for Intel machines. Is that referring to Mnemosyne installed from source as opposed to installed from .dmg? On 11/26/13 9:06 AM, Peter Bienstman

[mnemosyne-proj-users] A bridge between cramming and classic SRS?

conditions: 1) control, 2) classic SRS (with a minimum resolution of 1 day) and 3) classic SRS supplemented by the study-distraction-review-distraction-review pattern described in the paper. Oisín [1] http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00589/full [2] http

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Problems trying to download shared cards off web onto Mac. Mnemosyne - TMP has deleted all my cards

On 15 September 2013 22:58, twebste...@gmail.com wrote: Hi When i do file - open it goes to the /downloads/ folder? I tried going to the /library/ folder manually but there was no mnemsoyne folder in there. THanks again in advance In the Open dialogue box, type the tilde character ~. A

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Encouraging SRS use in the classroom: Bailey 2013

since good old Pauker - once you start adding new vocabulary to the deck, you can trust that you'll never lose a word... you might forget it temporarily, but the SRS will catch it and automatically prioritise it. Less worry, way better efficiency... Oisín This article presents the results

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Usefulness of 'Production' of term from native language

time, if that is the case, is also an interesting one. For a start, it would be useful to know exactly how much workload is involved in both modes of study. Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To unsubscribe from this group

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne on Mac OS X 10.5

up the Mac build framework. ta, Oisín -- 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 mnemosyne-proj-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne 2.0 for OS X (10.6-10.8) released

On Friday, May 10, 2013 1:02:25 AM UTC+1, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: Hi, This may or may not work, but I've just built a distributable version that works on my laptop running Leopard. Feel free to download the massive (74MB zipped!) application from http://computing.dcu.ie/~omacfh

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne 2.0 for OS X (10.6-10.8) released

but not anyone else's for all I know... best of luck, Oisín On 7 May 2013 01:19, julie.deanna.bark...@gmail.com wrote: If you figure out a way to get it to work on a 32-bit processor, please let me know. I don't think I can realistically build it from source, so it looks like I will have to jump

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Language learning and retention rate

When I'm not falling behind on reviews, average about 85% in Chinese. When I'm working under a backlog (often), it's way down, between 70-80% maybe. As you'd expect, this gets worse depending on how long I've been backlogged! On 22 April 2013 18:54, Gnome jippija...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] answerbox: overlay in Mnemosyne 2.x

SVG, which is the most ubiquitous and portable vector file format nowadays. You can use Scribus and probably Inkscape to convert an EPS file into SVG format, which will then work in Mnemosyne! Oisín On 03/14/2013 12:56 AM, Marcelo Durgante wrote: Thanks a lot Peter. It works really well. I

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: http://www.flashcardexchange.com/

On 7 March 2013 20:30, Vit vrem2003-tempor...@yahoo.com wrote: , m.wun...@gmail.com wrote: Collaborative flashcard sets are the only thing that is worth it. --Vit: I checked one Tatoeba collection { as Oisin pointed out}; 3 out of 10 were seriously flawed - as shown below.

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: http://www.flashcardexchange.com/

). Oisín On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:55 AM, m.wunderli wrote: collaborativ flashcard set are the only thing that is worth it. -- 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

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: mnemosyne-webserver blues

- this is commonly done by Bittorrent software. It's also possible, but unlikely, that a router has been misconfigured to set your PC as the DMZ. So indeed it is worth checking whether your ports are visible to the outside world. Oisín Mark On Friday, November 23, 2012 2:41:48 PM UTC-8, ju...@rocketmail.com

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Installing plugins

what's going on? I hope this doesn't mean my current decks and their respective information are lost... Nope. Try running the uninstaller first, then run the v2 installer? Myself and a few others experienced a similar crash after upgrading to v2 without first uninstalling the 1.x version. Oisín

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: The Correct Process? OR How to Play Well with an Algorithm

to spend more hours studying, which is of course a useful thing in itself. Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: The Correct Process? OR How to Play Well with an Algorithm

On 6 December 2012 20:26, pharmtech azful...@gmail.com wrote: For me (with Anki 1.2) cramming worked very well when it employed SRS- style ordering and spacing. I might review 20 times per day, with cards coming due in 10 minutes to 10 hours. My performance fed back into the scheduling,

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: The Correct Process? OR How to Play Well with an Algorithm

tomorrow and risk occasional failures, than to repeatedly grade them 1 and cram them. A good place to find out lots of well-referenced information about spaced repetition is Gwern's page on the subject: http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition Oisín -- You received this message because you

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Do back everything up: Installing 2.1 on my Mac deleted all my cards

If for some reason, the backup directory was not writeable (e.g. it was a normal file rather than a directory, or the permissions were wrong) would the upgrade process have aborted? But in any case, I really can't stress enough how important it is to back up your important files regularly. Of

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: 2 Scheduled Cards a Day ?

On 22 October 2012 00:11, Michael Campbell michael.campb...@unixgeek.comwrote: There are probably many other ways to work through it, but these are some I've used. For what it's worth, I try to work through until I get the dialog. But I have a couple different decks that I work through

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Problems upon installing 2.0 Mnemosyne

On 15 October 2012 14:00, NotSoHappy hejo...@gmail.com wrote: I have been using Mnemosyne for about 4 years. Only this morning did i upgrade to version 2.0. I checked carefully whether i needed to uninstall the old version first. I also checked carefully whether i needed to do something with

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] mnemosynei386.sys?

On 26 September 2012 09:30, torci...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I am the IT guy for my company and we are seeing a mnemosynei386.sys file showing up and we are not sure what it is. Is this something to do with this software? I downloaded a few different versions and installed them and none of

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne doesn't start anymore, on max os x: uncaught exception

On 4 September 2012 18:30, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: Quoting ferdinando.cerr...@gmail.com: Nothing. The directory doesn't exist. Could you tell me a program through wich i can open mnemosyne database files or import them? rm ~/Library/Mnemosyne/config I'm afraid I

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Problem with Mnemogogo 2.0.4

not too enamoured with Apple's pay us every year to upload your own software onto your own phone philosophy - but it's much better than having to buy certificates for countless phone models/vendors). Oisín I bought signing keys for Blackberry devices after someone's helpful suggestion. That only

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Problem with Mnemogogo 2.0.4

On 3 September 2012 15:43, Chris n...@online.de wrote: Am Montag, 3. September 2012 17:18:48 UTC+2 schrieb Oisín Mac Fhearaí: ... In the end, I downloaded some software which allowed me to read the phone's firmware and flash it back with some debug option which permanently allows file

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Software to cover text in graphic?

support. best of luck, Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-users@googlegroups.com . To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-users+unsubscr

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] On the value of spaced repetition

On 24 August 2012 21:59, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting posts! So I don’t agree with the extent to which Scott thinks aggressive learning makes spaced repetition unnecessary. Moreover, he’s overlooking the “spaced” part of the concept: that *not* repeating, and allowing the

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Runtime Error on launch

On 24 August 2012 21:27, Timothy Bourke t...@tbrk.org wrote: Hello, Someone asked me to post their Mnemosyne problem to the list. When they launch Mnemosyne 2.0.1 on their Windows 7 PC, an error dialog appears: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Program: C:\Program Files

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

On 30 July 2012 08:22, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: Quoting Chris the.whistling@gmail.com: Just curious, how does a time zone effect the program? Does this have anything to do with why it was affecting all my versions, and would usually improve if I gave it time?

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Application of Mnemosyne for learning procedural information

learn all sorts of stuff: http://www.supermemo.com/help/read.htm I've not tried that, because it seems like perhaps a little overkill, and frankly I'm just too lazy :) Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

first? If we can replicate the conditions that cause this hang, the problem will be 80% solved already. It would be nice if you could get a log of every SQL statement before Mnemosyne executes it. Oisín On Monday, July 23, 2012 1:44:06 AM UTC-6, Peter Bienstman wrote: Here's a test version

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

which never completes? The call traces aren't too long, so I'm sure it would be helpful to post them here. Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-users@googlegroups.com

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

On 21 July 2012 11:39, Chris the.whistling@gmail.com wrote: Oisín: I could just send you my whole database. I would suppose it could be some other program interfering with it, but I don't have much stuff on my computers. And the Linux I ran it on was a fresh install just for it. I

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

On 20 July 2012 10:55, Murray James Morrison murrayja...@murrayjames.netwrote: Hi Chris, I also have a Windows 7 64-bit desktop running the latest version of Mnemosyne 2 (and before that, every Beta in between). I have 8000 cards in my database, but have never had any freezing problems. If

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

I said, if you can create a deck with a very small number of test cards which hangs for you, upload it somewhere and more of us can try to trigger the same behaviour and solve this problem. On Friday, July 20, 2012 9:35:38 PM UTC-6, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: ... perhaps Qt or the Latex code

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: help debugging the Windows hangs

On 13 July 2012 02:55, ezehfrank...@gmail.com wrote: Having the same problem. It freezes after 2 cards. Windows 7. I even tried running the software in safe mode. same result. Sorry if this is something people have checked already, but have you tried with a fresh deck? A few days ago I

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Freezing mnemosyne during holidays?

On 12 July 2012 20:59, pharmtech azful...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 11, 8:39 am, Oisín denpasho...@gmail.com wrote: Is it really more computationally difficult to do? Calculating overdueness probably isn't difficult. But, I think the proverbial devils are in the details. For example, most

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Freezing mnemosyne during holidays?

are not optimised for this, I don't know. Oisín If you have a card with a 14-day interval come due on the first day of your vacation, and another card with a 14-day interval come due on the 14th (last) day of your vacation, obviously the first one is at much greater risk of being forgotten

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Words with multiple meanings

will gladly steal all of your good ideas for my own use! :) Oisín George On 03/11/2011 17:35, Oisín wrote: On 3 November 2011 20:41, Lindsey lindsey.not...@gmail.com wrote: But what do you do about the reverse card? Do you have to get all 4 meanings to consider it a successful recall? 菜 isn't so

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Words with multiple meanings

dish (of food) cuisine (11 strokes; not z/p/d) Back: 菜 cai4 This works ok for me, but I'd be interested to hear of other strategies people are using. I'd definitely agree that this work should be supplemented with outside reading (and TV etc!) Good luck! Oisín On Nov 1, 6:39 am, Murray

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Words with multiple meanings

can we do more now? Why didn't my Dora words come up? :D Now I'm using images on the question side, for learning some Rubik's cube algorithms. Hoping that will turn out well... On 03/11/2011 09:59, Oisín wrote: On 3 November 2011 03:59, Lindsey lindsey.not...@gmail.com wrote: I'm learning

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Words with multiple meanings

the grammar and common patterns of speech :) Oisín On Nov 3, 9:59 am, Oisín denpasho...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 November 2011 03:59, Lindsey lindsey.not...@gmail.com wrote: I'm learning Chinese. You have to memorize at least a couple thousand characters to have even a chance of reading anything

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Help with this localisation language

On 17 October 2011 05:03, Esther Carrillo esther.carrillo.ma...@gmail.comwrote: This is most bizarre particularly because I am surfing the web with no problems and accessing all other sites. I am at a loss at what could be wrong with my system and this site only. Thanks for any ideas, Esther

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] DMG wont eject

On 9 October 2011 17:54, Drew drewprin...@gmail.com wrote: so i downloaded and installed the app, but the disk image wont eject and gtfo my desktop. I uninstalled the app and it still wont disappear. Minor annoyance, but this shouldn't happen and i'm getting frustrated. Why won't it eject?

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Who are the researchers who use the mnemosyne collected data?

On 28 June 2011 15:21, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: On Tuesday, June 28, 2011 04:39:43 PM John Salvatier wrote: I am interested in looking at the research facilitated by mnemosyne data, who are the researchers who use it? I plan on looking at the data eventually, but at

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Installing Windows Mnemosyne on a USB stick from a Linux computer

/Program Files/Mnemosyne...) to your USB key. I did a quick search and found this though, which may save you the effort: http://portableapps.com/apps/education/mnemosyne_portable Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Estimating popularity of spaced repetition

cloze deletion would have helped. Oisín Mvh. Randi Den 19-03-2011 22:09, Caio Rossi skrev: Hello, I'm Brazilian and teach English as a foreign language down here in Brazil. The students I have introduced SRS to like it, but only one or another has adopted it in their daily routines

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Feature requests

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 That's how I do it. Even when I needed to programmatically transform the text, I used Applescript and bash scripts to input the

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Pausing?

On 7 December 2010 21:52, Chris the.whistling@gmail.com wrote: As for Randi, the best advice I can give is take the time to read through www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm and you should be able to make fantastic cards. It's a quite long page, but it is excellent. I use a whole

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Number of cards scheduled per day

On 23 September 2010 23:02, Michael Campbell michael.campb...@unixgeek.comwrote: I may be misreading what you're saying here, but for me, review is review; in or out of the system; there is no distinction. Whether or not I remember what the system is showing me when it shows me only affects

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] More thoughts on jpegs / slideshow / screensaver

can't set focus on a dialogue (i.e. the add card window) until the mouse cursor is over the main Mnemosyne window and not the window-to-receive-focus. Strange... Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] More thoughts on jpegs / slideshow / screensaver

of colours etc, but ImageMagick looks very powerful and simpler to use. Thanks for that! Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Off topic - Best way to organise thoughts, ideas, questions. Software/text files?

On 16 September 2010 20:24, mzatanoskas mzatanos...@googlemail.com wrote: So I was wondering how other people managed this. Do you have a clever filing system to manage this? Do you not bother? Or maybe you use mind- mapping style software? Or twist some non-thought-organising specific

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Error on Windows 7, can't do a clean uninstall

On 15 September 2010 13:17, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.bewrote: One thing that would make this easier to deal with is the option to exit without saving the file, because it's really irritating to have to shut down from the task manager when it comes up with the Can't save file

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Google text-to-speech

On 27 August 2010 04:48, mzatanoskas mzatanos...@googlemail.com wrote: I've only just got around to testing Google's automatic text to speech, and to be honest I'm a little disappointed by how machine-like and 1990s it still sounds. As I said I've been using this text to speech site

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Context dependency, confidence, abusing Mnemosyne, and feature request

don't care when this happens. I just answer it, even if it's cheating by just having seen it some seconds ago. If I really don't know it at all, then it'll fail tomorrow and taken care of anyway. It doesn't matter if a few snuck in dishonestly today - the right thing will happen automatically :) Oisín

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Relative importance of categories

On 30 May 2010 07:53, Wim Woittiez wim.woitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, Thanks for your reply. I thought of that, but it didn't seem particularly easy either, since several of my decks have a lot of categories, so picking the ones to activate each time is going to get messy. Maybe a

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] use AutoKey on linux to speed up the creation of cloze and image flashcards (screencast and code included)

), and didn't know there was something similar for Linux/xorg. The cloze deletion one looks especially useful. :) Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-us...@googlegroups.com

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] An idea for an adaptive flashcard system.

NO new cards for almost a month). It'd be nice to have an approximate function which estimates how many new cards added will result in equilibrium (having no backlog of due cards) with a fixed number of reviews performed daily, relative to the number of known cards in the deck. Oisín -- You received

Re: [spam] [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Negative scheduled days + large number of still-to-learn cards problem

be interesting to see at what rate that happens... Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mnemosyne

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] initial gap when learning new cards

in the first hours/days to avoid forgetting new cards may not affect that rate of getting knowledge into your long-term memory in an obvious way. Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send email

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Digest for mnemosyne-proj-users@googlegroups.com - 11 Messages in 3 Topics

or with a very small gap and feel like you're cheating yourself by passing it, don't... if you haven't learned it properly, soon enough you'll find out and mark it 0 or 1. Not worth worrying about! Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Idea about integrating spaced-repetition and mind maps

. Freemind's attribute system? I'd like to hear what you're thinking of? Oisín [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map Thanks, Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Why Use Vice-Versa Cards?

://www.glowingfaceman.com/blog/sentence-mining/ for a nice article on that, and lots of other very interesting articles relating to SRS and modern advancements in language self-study techniques) Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Chinese character font issues

2010/1/3 TMN temporaryaddre...@gmail.com I'm using mnemosyne to memorize kanjis in Japanese and some vocabulary in Chinese. The issue I'm having is that, whatever font I use, some variant of Chinese character doesn't come out correctly. For instance, when I use MS Gothic or similar fonts,

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: br's don't get imported properly, what am I doing wrong?

': for c in 'br': print hex(ord(c)) 0x3c 0x62 0x72 0x3e If your import file doesn't contain a bytesequence 3c 62 72 3e, then maybe it's the wrong encoding and not being interpreted as XML characters. Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Locking the cards

completely prevent speeding, only make it enough of a nuisance that most drivers passing them will slow down. Oisín -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-us...@googlegroups.com

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Locking the cards

2009/11/19 crgmcc...@yahoo.com.au crgmcc...@yahoo.com.au: Hi Oisin, Bearing in mind that Peter suggested we move on, I will just add one more comment, to clarify my original post, if I may. I don't think any of us are arguing at this point. My own solution did, in fact, have a second

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Unable to use the custom tag plugin...

2009/11/18 mzatanoskas mzatanos...@googlemail.com: Thanks for the help Peter, I tried it with windows media player and the program did start, but wmp claimed it couldn't play the file?! I tried again with media player classic and hooray, it seems to work!! Only problems now are that you

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Locking the cards

don't think it's accurate to say SRS is in general completely incompatible with what Samuel's requesting. I didn't say it was. In fact I said what you just said! On Nov 17, 2:17 am, Oisín denpasho...@gmail.com wrote: (ok, maybe you could split the deck into two files; the cards which are made

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: New User Issue with Latex

shell commands, and incrementally muddle through it. Best of luck, Oisín --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj-users

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: New User Issue with Latex

the Python 3 interpreter. Will have to debug this further... there should be a lot more entries in the path. Oisín --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: New User Issue with Latex

2009/10/19 Oisín denpasho...@gmail.com: In the midst of examining this and restarting Mnemosyne a couple of times, it suddenly stopped working for me too! Oh I see now. When I first checked that Latex was working correctly with Mnemosyne, I ran the program by doing 'open /Applications

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