tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:/discussions/suggestions/2754-changes-in-upcoming-ios-updateThe Mental Faculty: Discussion 2018-10-19T02:24:12Ztag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/271180512013-06-02T18:41:04Z2013-06-02T18:41:04Zchanges in upcoming IOS update<div><p>Hello,</p>
<p>Thank you for contacting us. We are not able to comment on
future updates at this time. We will definitely make sure your
concerns are passed on tot he developer team.</p>
<p>Thank you for choosing The Mental Faculty!</p>
<p>Best,<br>
Jason W. -- The Mental Faculty Support</p></div>supporttag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/271180512013-07-04T15:33:36Z2013-07-04T15:33:36Zchanges in upcoming IOS update<div><p>Now that the new app has been released, can someone please
comment on the questions I asked above concerning points 1, 2, and
3?</p>
<p>In my case, I don't see a point in switching if the only change
is iCloud sync, since I am doing fine with wifi sync and there's no
point in fixing what "ain't broke" for me.</p>
<p>However, if the issues I name in the above points, I will gladly
buy the app and switch to iCloud sync.</p>
<p>Congrats on the new release. Please comment.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p></div>zeppotag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/271180512013-07-04T15:49:55Z2013-07-04T15:49:55Zchanges in upcoming IOS update<div><p>You certainly don't have to switch if you don't want to. We
deliberately released a new app so that customers could try the new
app, but also return to the old one if they wished.</p>
<p>Your questions:<br>
1) the advantage of the advanced spaced repetition scheduling that
the desktop provides<br>
Mental Case 2 includes several goal-oriented schedules. One is
spaced-repetition (long-term schedule), but there are also
schedules for targeting a date, and cramming (Leitner).<br>
The spaced-repetition algorithm is a bit more advanced. It adapts
dynamically to how you answer, so if you answer several times wrong
in a row, it will assume the note is difficult, and make the
intervals shorter.<br>
Another big change is that every combination of prompt-response is
scheduled separately. So if you are learning Spanish, the
English-Spanish combination would appear and be scheduled
separately to the Spanish-English. In the old app, it just randomly
picked the order. Now if you struggle with one of the combinations,
that combination will appear more often.</p>
<p>2) the advantage of each facet of the slide being scheduled
independently of the other(s) that the desktop is said to provide
(but IOS does not)<br>
Answered at end of 1)</p>
<p>3) ability to have Non-reversible notes within the same stack as
reversible notes and remain so when syncing mac with IOS<br>
You can argue whether it is much of an advantage. I guess it is
possible to have a stack of general stuff that includes different
styles of notes. I agree this isn't that common, and having
'homogeneous' notes would also have been fine.</p>
<p>Hope that helps. You can try Mental Case 2 for free, and some of
these things are explained in the in-app help pages.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br>
Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/271180512013-07-04T16:33:10Z2013-07-04T16:36:12Zchanges in upcoming IOS update<div><p>Thanks, Drew. The change in # 2 in particular I think is huge.
So for that alone I will upgrade. Of course, any advances in the
space-repetion algorithm are always great.</p>
<p>As far as point #3, it really would be a great advantage. My
method is to create notes in Google Docs, import those to Flashcard
Exchange, and then download to Mental Case. As of now, I have to do
this twice for each new area of study I am adding. For instance, I
am indeed studying Spanish. I add vocabulary from a frequency
dictionary, with entries in the order of most used words. I
concentrate on 50 entries from the dictionary, and then move on to
the next set of 50. Some words can be addressed with reversible
cards, and others require non-reversible. It would be much simpler
if I could just do a single Google spreadsheet, import that to a
single Flashcard Exchange deck, and import it to a single Mental
Case stack, to which I could then set the cards accordingly, rather
than have to do the process twice.</p>
<p>Furthermore, sometimes I realize, while in the process of
studying a stack, an inadequacy with a reversible flashcard, and
rather than have to address it by creating a whole new
non-reversible stack, it would be easier to mark it as
non-reversible and add couple of other non-reversible cards to that
same stack. When I am typing the original Google doc to be imported
to Flashcard Exchange, I am often just flying through it, and so I
miss the problem with the card. For example, I created a stack with
the following reversible card:</p>
<p>facet one > asistir<br>
facet two > to attend (an event) ; to assist</p>
<p>not a problem in this order, but when reversed, it becomes</p>
<p>to attend (an event) ; to assist >>> asistir</p>
<p>The inadequacy in this order is that "to assist" acts as an
obvious crutch that triggers my memory that the answer is
"asistir". But without that aid, would I have known that "to
attend" = "asistir"??</p>
<p>So the solution to the above is to change the original card to a
non-reversible card and then add two more non-reversible cards:</p>
<p>to attend (an event) > asistir<br>
to assist > asistir</p>
<p>Realization of such inadequacies happens quite often. It would
be nice to deal with this on the fly within the same stack, rather
than having to go through the process of creating a new one.</p>
<p>I hope the above example gives you an idea why this feature
would be a significant advantage.</p>
<p>That said, I am unclear about the response you gave me. Are you
saying I can now in the new version (wouldn't work in the old)
designate reversible and non-reversible cards within the same
stack?</p></div>zeppotag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/271180512013-07-04T16:44:23Z2013-07-04T16:44:23Zchanges in upcoming IOS update<div><p>Yes, that is what I am saying. You can mix all card types in a
stack. You can also have multisided cards, as many as you like.</p>
<p>Each stack has a 'template'. This is just used to setup new
notes, but you are free to change each note separately, for
example, making one note non-reversible.</p>
<p>One more thing that may interest you: the new app supports
import of CSV files. If you can find a way to get google docs to
export a CSV file in an app on your phone, you should be able to
select and import it directly, avoiding flashcard exchange.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br>
Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/271180512013-07-04T17:03:29Z2013-07-04T17:03:29Zchanges in upcoming IOS update<div><p>Great news. I have one more important question before I switch,
which I will ask in a separate thread.</p></div>zeppo