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Note that the Question and Answer columns of the card browser show the text already formatted, that is, without fast formatting characters. That is what should be searched, not the underlying card structure which also shows the raw formatting codes.
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You might have a look at this topic "Copy a card, adjust it, and save"
https://mnemosyne.uservoice.com/forums/164265-general/suggestions/2923970-make-it-possible-to-copy-a-card-adjust-it-and-savWould that meet your need?
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Thanks for your comment, Lisa. Whether the extra clicks are a "big deal" or not depends on how often one needs to do it. There was a season when I was turning the cramming scheduler on, then off every time I used Mnemosyne, so two clicks instead of eight is an advantage -- especially for people like myself who try to avoid mouse controls. And four clicks to do a simple and repeated toggle is poor workflow.
I'm not a programmer, but I expect that adding a toolbar button would indeed be a quick task.
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All the other standard plugins are basically to "turn on and leave it" -- for example, we don't keep turning the Maps plugin on and off. But Cramming Scheduler is different -- a user may turn it on and off many times. That is why it warrants a toolbar button.
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Sorry, Lars W, but I don't see how the macro for quick re-tagging of cards relates to this suggestion of copying one card to reuse as a new card. Could you explain a bit more? Thanks.
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I've often wished for a "copy card" or "duplicate card" option. I would use it when the structure of an existing card is similar to what I want to create, and it would be easier to edit the copy than make the new one. Lacking this option, I copy and paste.
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Sorry, Lars W, but I don't see how the macro for quick re-tagging of cards relates to this suggestion of resetting cards to unlearned. Could you explain a bit more? Thanks.
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Good point, silverbear. I guess one must weigh the benefit of learning a pair of words as a set, against the intrinsic hint it provides. It depends in part on a person's learning style.
I'm not strict about SRS myself, but I was anticipating a possible objection from those who are.
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That's a nice suggestion, Henrik -- to extend the Copy function so that it can achieve the Reset goal as well.
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I think the need to contrast two very similar items requires a strategy of its own, irrespective of a restart function. Even if you restart the known card (e.g. sábana) to go along with a new card (sabana), the known card will soon be seen less frequently because it will be graded higher.
Here is a possible strategy: keep the two individual cards, but also make a new one which explicitly pairs the words, perhaps Q: 1. sabana 2. sábana A: 1. grassland 2. sheet. That way the contrast will be maintained without depending on the individual cards appearing close in time.
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Nice idea; the possibility to restart a card could be very useful. Othewise you have to wait a long time until the card comes up for review. Furthermore, a restart button would allow several such cards (perhaps a related group) to be reset at once, without waiting for each to be reviewed individually and on different days.
Although this option probably violates a strict spaced-repetition (SRS) philosophy, it accommodates the reality of sometimes needing to start over.
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Ok, I can accept that. The down side is that the number of card types can get long, and one must set up each clone individually. But I understand the limitation. You can remove this suggestion if you like.
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Could you describe your idea a bit more? How would this be used? What benefit does it provide? What difficulty does it solve? Thanks.
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Another good use for "Skip this card" is if two cards are related or close in meaning, thus answering the second card is unnaturally easy. I would like to skip the second one rather than give it an artifically high grade.
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Here's my experience: 0 and 5 are rarely used anyway, so the child could reasonably ignore them (0 = I don't recognize this at all, and 5 = I know this really well). So 1 = missed it, and 4 = know it. The rather grey area is whether to choose 2 or 3 for "kinda know it," and I think for the purpose of simplification either one could be used. The result is that the child focuses on only three options: 1, 2/3, and 4.
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Would Mnemosyne grade a typo error as wrong? Or could the user override a less-than-perfect typed answer as "correct" anyway?
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I think a better solution would be to organize (or tag) the information in "chapters," and initially deactivate all chapters except the first. Then progressively activate the chapters in sequence as the early chapters are learned. This is how a user would go through the vocabulary of a foreign language textbook. It allows better control than depending on the order of the individual cards.
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Thanks for the explanation. So this would allow unlearned cards to appear first rather than last during a day's review -- in that case SRS is not violated.
As an alternative, how about adding a setting "Show unlearned cards first"?
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Doesn't this violate the underlying strategy of spaced repetition memorization?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Scott Youngman
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Ah, now that I see Peter's example, I understand how this can be non-ambiguous. I retract my objection.
But as Justin says, cloze-deletion could accomplish the same thing. What is the advantage of this proposal?
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Polysemy is difficult to handle in flashcards, no matter what the approach. The practical difficulty with this particular solution is for the user to recognize when the answer should be meaning 1 and when it should be meaning 2 -- the question is the same for both answers, so one could easily respond with the other meaning. And when presented with the question, there is no clue as to which answer is expected. This can be discouraging because the user knows that both answers are correct, yet one will be "wrong" simply because of the way the cards are structured. I prefer, therefore, to learn both meanings on the same card.
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I would use this after I have given a card a higher grade than was appropriate -- usually because I answered too quickly.
I'll highlight what has already been noted in previous comments: This suggestion does not require any new capability in Mnemosyne; it simply extends existing capability to the search results. It also makes searching transparent because the user does not need to remember or guess what fast formatting may or may not occur with the search string.