tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:/discussions/suggestions/834-changing-decksThe Mental Faculty: Discussion 2011-06-01T05:57:56Ztag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/75324662011-05-30T07:57:43Z2011-05-30T07:57:43ZChanging decks<div><p>What I would recommend is breaking your 1000 note decks into
multiple smaller ones, of about 100 cards, and perhaps putting
these all in one case collection. Then turn off the lesson on some
of the cases, and concentrate on a few. When those cases are on the
way, and your lesson is manageable, add a few more cases to the
lesson.</p>
<p>If you are studying so many cards, there really isn't any good
way for us to show them to you. You are right: the
spaced-repetition will be less effective. So it is better to split
up your learning a bit, with smaller cases, and controlling which
cases enter the lesson.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br>
Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/75324662011-05-30T14:35:50Z2011-05-30T14:35:52ZChanging decks<div><p>So you're saying make a lesson of 100 at a time, take out the
one's I know well by then and add 25, take out 25, add 25, etc?</p>
<p>I actually ended up just cutting it up in Flashcard Exchange to
100 card piles. Though it would still be helpful to be able to
alternate between piles - let's say GRE vocab, then to GRE Math,
then to GRE vocab again.</p>
<p>Thanks Drew.</p></div>Dannytag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/75324662011-05-30T14:38:29Z2011-05-30T14:38:29ZChanging decks<div><p>The lesson is such that the time intervals increase as you learn
the notes better. So if you study a set for a while, they will only
appear rarely. So you don't need to turn off the lesson for that
set, just let it keep going, but at the same time, turn on the
lesson for one of the other sets.<br>
Make sense?</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/75324662011-05-30T22:53:39Z2011-05-30T22:53:39ZChanging decks<div><p>I'm not sure I follow admittedly. It seems that a lesson with
anything over 100 cards would be time consuming to put together in
the first place insread of just pick up and go. Also, I thought I
would provide additional suggestions if you feel they might help
with the product (which I should say, despite my many suggestions,
has been very very useful to me!)</p>
<p>Editing within the card.<br>
- I've pulled come flashcards from Flashcard exchange but the
explanation could have been much better. The only way to get the
better explanation is by editing in FE and then reloading but then
youre losing your progress on a deck. - plus, some card can be very
descriptive, almost paragraphs long. It would Greatly help if you
could break a card like that into bullets on the fly.</p>
<p>Colors<br>
- some variety on the color gradient maybe? Black and grey are so
black and grey. Blue and White would be maybe more relieving when
your looking at the cards for hours at a time...whatever someone's
preference.</p>
<p>Some ability to put cards into crotical piles like those that
you're just not getting right mo matter how often you review
them.</p>
<p>Again, a great product. I'm going to graduate school this sept
which is why I'm studying this. I will definitely recommend it
there.</p></div>Dannytag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/75324662011-05-31T07:45:41Z2011-05-31T07:45:41ZChanging decks<div><p>Hi Danny,</p>
<p>You don't need to put together a lesson. You can simply edit a
case, either on iOS or the Mac, and turn off the lesson. On iOS it
is just a switch. On the Mac, you set the lesson schedule to None.
So it isn't very much work really.</p>
<p>We only allow downloads from Quizlet and FCE. To do a full sync
would be much harder, and maybe impossible, because we don't
control those sites. So I'm afraid for now it is really just a way
to get some notes into MC.</p>
<p>It would be difficult to come up with a way to break up cards
automatically. The problem is really that whoever made the cards
didn't do a great job. For MC to reorder that would be difficult to
achieve without human interaction.</p>
<p>Colored backgrounds are coming very soon. Version 2.0 for the
Mac will allow customization of it for each side.</p>
<p>We are also adding flagging in version 2.0. You could use this
to mark a note for more study.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/75324662011-06-01T03:30:47Z2011-06-01T03:30:48ZChanging decks<div><p>Yes this does. Thank you for the comtinued help.</p>
<p>Regarding breaking up cards: I didn't mean that the program
would somehow automatically break them up somehow. That's
definitely a tall order for it to figure that out; I meant more
like if you come across a card that is too long, not detailed
enough, or doesn't have correct info, that while you studying
through a deck, you could edit the cards on the fly so that when
they come back you have those edits.</p>
<p>The only alternative I thought would have helped is leaving the
study deck, going to the library deck and editing a card, but that
does not make the changes on the study card for some reason, yet
when you go back to the library, the changes in the card in the
library does remain the same. In other words, if you were to go
through a study deck and came across a card that said 1+1=3, then
went to the library where you can edit cards, edited it to 1+1=2,
if you go back to the study deck (either in progress or reloaded),
the study card will still say 1+1=3...so no changes are made from
editing to the actual study section. Still, if one was able to edit
it on the fly as well, one wouldn't have to lose the progress made
in a study deck session.</p></div>Dannytag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/75324662011-06-01T05:57:56Z2011-06-01T05:57:56ZChanging decks<div><p>Hi Danny,<br>
You can resume your last slideshow, so you don't have go lose the
progress.<br>
You are right about slides not updating to reflect note content
immediately. We will look into that.<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Drew</p></div>drewmccormack