Idea for a new card type with flexible content

[Oliver Kersten]

Hello all together,

 

I've got an idea for a new card type.

 

Let's say, you have some cards from an english-to-italian deck like "The girl is running." (La bambina corre.), "The girl is eating." (La bambina mangia.) and "The girl is writing." (La bambina scrive.). The new card type shall work like a mix of the cloze card type and a regular flash card. On the front side you write "The girl... [1=is running|2=is eating|3=is writing]." On the back side should be written "La bambina... [1=corre|2=mangia|3=scrive]. The program now should query randomly only one of these possiblities, for example "The girl is running." After answering correct with "La bambina corre.", the card (with all other possibilites) moves further in the deck, as a regular flash card. Next time it queries again only one of the front side's questions, and so on. So there are no sister cards created by creating a card of this card type, but it stays one card with a dynamic content.

 

With this card type it would be possible to create and query flexible content. Instead of simply query "blue", "red", "green", "car", it could be very useful to create a card, which sometimes queries "blue car", sometimes "red car" and sometimes "green car". It would not bore the user by query all three terms ever again.

 

Maybe there could be even more than one variable on the card like "blue", "red" and "car", "bike", so that the card contains four possible queries.

 

I guess it would be a very useful extension/plugin for mnemosyne.

 

So far

Olli

[Peter Bienstman]

On Thursday, July 26, 2012 01:03:22 AM Oliver Kersten wrote:

> I guess it would be a very useful extension/plugin for mnemosyne.

Thanks for the idea! It sounds rather complicated to implement, though, and
I'm not sure the benefits of this are enough to warrant this.

But libmnemosyne is flexible enough to accomodate this, so any plugin writer
could take up the challenge.

Cheers,

Peter

[Scott Youngman]

In language learning, the unchangin part (e.g. "The girl is") is called a FRAME. So that could be used for the name of this card type.