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Pavel
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In my comment I would rather reformulate and reanalyze this idea than submit a duplicate suggestion. I would call it Customized Scheduler. I like my rhythm in learning and those SRS algorithms think they are helpful but in fact they are intrusive.
For example, when learning something I revise immediately after study then review one day after initial study, optionally revise three days after study then it is regular like clockwork:
one week after study
(optional) - two weeks after study
one month after study
(optional) - two month after study
three months after study
(optional) - four months after study
six months after study
(optional) - eight months after study
one year after studyBut when I write one month, it is not 30/31 days, it is always 28 days, two month is 56 days, and so on. Revisions come always on the same day of the week. So for example you can have regular Spanish Tuesday, French Wednesday and Latin Thursday.
You know I like my rhythm and do not like to learn one Spanish word and two French words on my Latin day just because I gave them low success and some SRS algorithm thinks I should do so. The deck of cards is always topical and creates its own context and I do not break it into smaller chunks spread over several days just because one small piece of it has lower success.
This approach is a kind of SRS (it follows Ebbinghaus forgetting curve) but ignores that Microsoft helpfulness of SM algorithm :-). Different people have different approaches to learning.
Reply to Vit:
If you ask if I implemented in Mnemosyne as plugin - no, no time for that. But 7 or 8 years ago I implemented exactly that customized calendar in an obsolete DOS version Foxpro. These days it would probably be easy to implement in OpenOffice Calc or some open source database application.
It was simply a calendar database when each item on input got its database record with the dates calculated (I put there 12 dates to the future) and on browsing/querying database I retrieved the items for the particular date (or previous dates). It was always my decision what to review on a particular date.