How do you distinguish "currently using" and "back burner" cards?
The point of these SRS systems is to bring the "things I forget" to the forefront of my memory when I start to forget them. If you're "failing" some openings/cards because you're not reviewing them away from mnemosyne, then it seems that you're also not reviewing them often enough *IN* mnemosyne. Rate them lower when you fail and you'll see them more often. 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 my rating of it going forward, which affects when it will show it to me next. If I happen to have had an "out of system" review, I'll remember it better and rate it higher, so I don't see it as often in the system. But out of the system review does affect the schedule in an indirect way, because the "extra" review will affect my real memory, so I'll continue to rate that card higher and push the next review further and further out. In short, mnemosyne and "real life" aren't different for me; the "real life" reviews only serve to also train me, and mnemosyne helps fill in the gaps with its timing, which is affected by my ratings, which is affected by both in and out of system reviews. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Dan Schmidt <dan.schm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 22, 4:11 pm, mzatanoskas <mzatanos...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > Bonus question/thought: how does mnemosyne/SRS theory deal with the > > fact that flashcards/information we learn aren't confined to the SRS > > software environment/individual flashcard themselves. What I mean by > > that is, say I have a flashcard "X". This flashcard is never going to > > be the only place that contains that information. Depending on the > > card I'm going to come across this info outside mnemosyne more or less > > often, and thus get "bonus" reviews that mnemosyne cannot take into > > account. > > This definitely affects me. I use Mnemosyne to remember chess > openings, both ones I am currently using and ones that I have on the > back burner. I fail a significantly larger fraction of the non-active > ones, because I am not constantly being forced to review them in real > life outside of Mnemosyne. I can't think of a good way to account for > it, though. > > -- > 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...@googlegroups.com<mnemosyne-proj-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. > > -- 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-proj-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
