Export metadata forgetting?

[Gwern Branwen]

So today I was updating my Mnemosyne 2.x .card export for my Dropbox
copy, and I ran into an issue: it seems by default, Mnemosyne forgets
a good chunk of the metadata one enters in when making the export.
Specifically:

- it doesn't increment the 'revision' counter, as is logical
- it forgets the title (eg. I had titled my first export 'Gwern's
flashcards (~2008-2013)' but when I went to export, the title field
was empty)
- and it forgets all the keywords/tags one specifies to describe the
deck contents

Am I doing something wrong or is the export functionality just lacking
this? I was confused because it seems to retain just fine my name and
email address, so I expected it to hold onto the other fields as well.
(I didn't even remember what the other fields were, so I had to
redownload the old export, load it, and copy the fields by hand.)

--
gwern
http://www.gwern.net

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

By forgetting you mean not prefilling the fields in the dialog when you do a second export, right?

Mnemosyne only prefills your name and email, as these are the only fields that can reasonably be expected to stay the same.

You are probably exporting the same cards over and over again, but I suspect it's more common people export different cards each time.

Peter

[Gwern Branwen]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Peter Bienstman
<Peter.B...@ugent.be> wrote:
> By forgetting you mean not prefilling the fields in the dialog when you do a
> second export, right?

Yes.

> Mnemosyne only prefills your name and email, as these are the only fields
> that can reasonably be expected to stay the same.
>
> You are probably exporting the same cards over and over again, but I suspect
> it's more common people export different cards each time.

It's easier to delete a pre-filled field than to remember what you
filled it with when you did it the last time. And I'm not sure people
export different sets each time; even if they did, it would make more
sense to just store the prefilled fields for each set of tags.

--
gwern
http://www.gwern.net

[Peter Bienstman]

Feel free to add this to our uservoice forum, that way people can vote for it.

Cheers.

Peter