Question: What advice would you give on how to use Mnemosyne?

[larsen....@gmail.com]

Hi! I’m a computer science student at Monash University
with a particular interest in spaced repetition tools like
Mnemosyne, and I plan to invest a reasonable amount of
research and development effort in the direction of these
programs in the future.

I’d like to get as robust an empirical grounding as
possible, so if you could take a few minutes to answer the
three/four questions below I’d be very grateful. If there
are enough responses, I’ll summarise them on my blog and
post a link here so other people can benefit.

(Disclaimer: I’ve asked a similar question on the Anki forums:
http://bit.ly/2bfxHIY.)

Thanks for your time!


Tom.


(1) Have you experienced significant intermission/break
periods with Mnemosyne, when you haven’t kept reviewing
all scheduled cards on a daily basis? If so: how have you
dealt with the problem?

(2) What is the single biggest challenge you have
encountered in using Mnemosyne, and how have you addressed
it?

(2) If you could give only two key points of advice to a
student (high school / college / university) just starting
out for the first time with Mnemosyne, what would those
points be?

(4) Optional and helpful: could you screenshot and attach /
link to your Statistics?

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

I think the most important thing is 'be consistent'. You only reap the full benefits of a spaced repetition system if you do your reps every day, which is something I can imagine a lot a people find hard, as they are more in the mind set of 'cramming for an exam' as opposed 'learning for life'.

Any psychological trick to build habits is worth checking out to see if it works for you, see e.g.

http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret
https://habitica.com

Cheers,

Peter

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