Simplicity and stability of the software is more important than occasionally learning similar items on the same day.
On Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:26:02 UTC+2, Peter Bienstman wrote: > > Mnemosyne currently has a configuration option '(Re)learn sister cards on > the same day'. However, it's very misleading in the sense that as soon as > you are running out of new cards to study, Mnemosyne will bring these > sister cards into the queue to prevent it from running empty. In RC1, I've > added a warning message to explain that this is happening, but it's proving > difficult to prevent it from triggering spuriously. > > So now I'm currently leaning towards removing that configuration option > altogether and taking the behaviour when this box was unchecked. This means > that when learning new cards, Mnemosyne will avoid showing you sister > cards, unless you are running out of new cards. I'm not sure that > preventing you from trying to learn the production card when you have > memorised the recognition card is all that important, and people could get > confused if they see the 'not memorised' counter non-zero, but still get no > new cards to study. Sure, you could give a warning message in that case, or > make the behaviour configurable, but I feel that then we're just replacing > one combination of a confusing, difficult to understand setting and warning > message with a different combination of confusing, difficult to understand > setting and warning message.. > > Thoughts? > > Peter > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mnemosyne-proj-users/-/hcSiPUTG-0wJ. 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.
