OK. I think I understand things a little better. I noticed a confusing behavior though:
After going through the scheduled cards, I had about 8 cards that were rated "1", some from the day before and some which I had rated "1" because they were scheduled and I didn't remember them. Of course, I also had bunch of new cards rated "0". Mnemosyne kept showing me the 1-rated cards over and over again and none of the 0-rated cards. After going through the 1-rated cards about 10 times each, I finally gave one of the 1-rated cards a rating of 2, and then all of a sudden my batch of five new 0-rated cards started showing up intermingled with the 1-rated cards. I don't really understand this behavior. - Aaron On Mar 7, 4:00 am, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 6, 5:34 pm, Aaron B <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've been trying to use this program for a couple weeks and it seems > > really promising. However, I am not sure I understand its model of > > going from short-term to long-term memory. Supposedly, if I hit "1", > > this means that I didn't know the answer but that the answer was very > > familiar once I saw it. If I hit "2", this means that I remembered > > the answer and to schedule the repetition some number of days in the > > future. > > Indeed. By hitting 2, you tell Mnemosyne that you think you will be > able to remember it tomorrow, or in a few days. > > > The problem is that it seems that the first time I rate a card 2 > > (after previously rating it 1), there is a good chance I won't > > remember it 24 hours later, especially if I just saw it (and rated it > > 1) within the past five minutes. > > You shouldn't interpret 2 as 'I remember it', but more like 'i think > I'll be able to remember it tomorrow' > > > However, it seems that rating a card > > 2 the first time after rating it 1 does not guarantee that the card > > will be scheduled for my next session. > > It could indeed also be the day after tomorrow. > > >On the other hand, I don't > > need to keep seeing the same card over and over again every few > > seconds if I remember it for the moment. > > What helps in that case is adding more unknown cards and/or increasing > the 'number of grade 0 cards to hold in my hand' setting. That will > give some more variety in the cards popping up. > > OTOH, if you feel you're seeing the same cards over and over again and > not making any progress, then it's time to close the program and take > a break :-) > > Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
