Hi, I used Mnemosyne for a while a couple of years ago and while I had a goal that Mnemosyne helped me get towards, I managed to use it, almost daily. However, once that was past, my use of Mnemosyne dropped fast. Eventually, I was launching it rarely enough that the number of cards waiting for me alone was enough to keep me from launching it.
My approach obviously has problems and while fixing my mental approach would be better, it does appear to be a long term project in itself. Also, a part of that project would be to figure out what is a good amount of cards per day and to adjust accordingly. Also another aspect would be figuring out the times when I'm most likely to be willing to divert my attention to doing a few flashcards. The part of this I'm currently able to do, reliably, myself, is to know whether I want to do a few flashcards, if I remember they exist. The problem part is remembering they exist at the times when I'd be willing to do a few of them. So, since my problem is one of persistence in remembering to go through the flashcards and computer software is very good in persistence, I thought it'd be a nice idea to have a flashcard software that sometimes gives me a small transient box for a few seconds in the corner of the screen that has a link I can click to get a flashcard UI to do a few flashcards. However, just a random reminder would likely get annoying eventually, leading to the user disabling it. So, it would need some intelligence. Ideally, it would only show the box at the times I'm willing to do some flashcards. So, I was thinking that perhaps it could pay attention to mouse&keyboard usage as well as programs starting and stopping (or alternatively, being focused and unfocused) on the system and use those as clues as to whether or not show the box. So, it'd keep a log of the times you do click the box to do the flashcards and slowly learn what events happening mean you're more or less likely to do some flashcards and avoid showing the reminder when you're likely to ignore it. So, I'd be interested in what people here think about this idea. Would you like it? Do you have ideas on how to improve this further? If so, I'd be thrilled to hear back from you. Best Regards, Joel -- 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.
