Too many scheduled cards pushes forgotten ones too far

[d.bed...@gmail.com]

So currently I have a situation where I have "Scheduled: 100" after not doing Mnemosyne for a week. Am I correct in understanding that if I mark a card as forgotten (1), I have to wait until I've gone through 100 cards for Mnemosyne to drill me on the forgotten card again?

How is that a good strategy? I would have forgotten the answer all over again by the time I'm finished with 100 cards.

Why does Mnemosyne pre-schedule so many cards ahead of time, instead of re-running the card scheduling algorithm at shorter intervals, like e.g. if I forgot 20 cards in a row, it should show me those cards again, instead of 100 other cards later.

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

If you're falling behind, Mnemosyne's philosophy is that it's best to first make sure that you don't forget the other scheduled cards (which are at risk of being forgotten), before spending time to relearn cards that you've already forgotten (and which is therefore not too time critical).

Note that the entire spaced repetition thing is a heuristic anyway, not hard science :-)

Cheers,

Peter

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[Francesco Ariis]

Partial workaround:
disable all tags and re-enable them one-by-one, so you won't be
overwhelmed by forgotten cards at the end of the learning session
-F

[d.bed...@gmail.com]

On Monday, November 12, 2018 at 2:49:01 PM UTC+1, Peter Bienstman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you're falling behind, Mnemosyne's philosophy is that it's best to first make sure that you don't forget the other scheduled cards (which are at risk of being forgotten), before spending time to relearn cards that you've already forgotten (and which is therefore not too time critical).

Hmm I guess that makes sense, except I'm getting tonnes of cards that I easily hit "4" on (i.e. familiar questions). So looks like reciting familiar cards comes at the expense of learning new cards or re-visiting forgotten cards. Not sure why such a high number of pre-scheduled cards is necessary to be honest: 100!

Anyway, thanks for the explanation.

[d.bed...@gmail.com]

On Monday, November 12, 2018 at 6:44:22 PM UTC+1, Francesco Ariis wrote:
> Partial workaround:
> disable all tags and re-enable them one-by-one, so you won't be
> overwhelmed by forgotten cards at the end of the learning session
> -F

Thanks for the suggestion. However, I have something like 20 tags, so it will take a while to disable, enable one then hit OK, and repeat for 20 tags. And to do this at the end of each session.