A few mnemododo problems

[Antonia]

This is with Mnemosyne 2.0 and the plugin from here and the up-to-date version of mnemododo from the play store.

There are often crashes when I open the mnemododo program, usually after I have exported the cards. It doesn't crash mid-review though, so I'm not overly concerned.

However the second problem is that certain categories aren't there. It is usually the same ones each time. Weirdly, they do show up if I only select that particular category. The categories are newer categories, and I haven't actually reviewed them yet - is that why? Not having reviewed them once before may explain the disappearance of a few other cards from other categories on the mnemododo app that appear properly on the mnemosyne program.

It's a bit of a problem.


(otherwise, I love having mnemosyne on the go. I would really want more customisation of how it looks, such as actual font sizes as I still find it too small. Perhaps eventually having the customisation of AnyMemo, which I used to use)

[Timothy Bourke]

On Jul 16 at 14:25 -0700, Antonia wrote:
> This is with Mnemosyne 2.0 and the plugin from here and the up-to-date version
> of mnemododo from the play store.
>
> There are often crashes when I open the mnemododo program, usually after I have
> exported the cards. It doesn't crash mid-review though, so I'm not overly
> concerned.

I'm sorry about these crashes. They are reported through the Play
store developer interface, but they are hard to reproduce in the
emulator and on my phone. They seem to occur when switching back to
Mnemododo from another app. They do not seem to cause any loss of
review data, but I am working to fix them nevertheless.

> However the second problem is that certain categories aren't there. It is
> usually the same ones each time. Weirdly, they do show up if I only select that
> particular category. The categories are newer categories, and I haven't
> actually reviewed them yet - is that why? Not having reviewed them once before
> may explain the disappearance of a few other cards from other categories on the
> mnemododo app that appear properly on the mnemosyne program.

There are three main reasons why certain cards may not be seen in
Mnemododo:

1. Are all of your categories active when you run an export? Only
active cards are exported.

2. Are all of the categories activated within Mnemododo (menu
button/Categories)?

3. How many days worth of cards are you exporting? What is the value
of the "Hold _ unmemorised cards in your hand" setting in Mnemosyne
(Configure Mnemosyne.../General)?

Mnemogogo exports all of the cards due in the next N days, plus N
times the number of unmemorised cards in your hand.

It does seem, though, that Mnemogogo 2.x favours certain categories
over others, whereas the previous version didn't. I will fix this
in the next release (soon) by shuffling the new cards to export
before taking the first N * U.

> It's a bit of a problem.

I understand. I don't have a lot of new cards in my deck at the
moment, and I mostly study from a single category, so I hadn't noticed
myself.

> (otherwise, I love having mnemosyne on the go. I would really want more
> customisation of how it looks, such as actual font sizes as I still find it too
> small. Perhaps eventually having the customisation of AnyMemo, which I used to
> use)

You can change the font size from the settings panel. Do you have it
on the largest setting?

Other than that, Mnemogogo 2.x should respect most of Mnemosyne's
appearance settings (by card type), and there is also a way to give a
CSS (cascading style sheets) file to fine tune some other settings.

I intentionally try to keep Mnemododo as simple and uncluttered as
possible, which was the "feature" of Mnemosyne that I always liked the
most. That said, anything that can make reviewing more effective is
worth considering. What other options do you miss?

Tim.