Changing decks
I have a few decks of flashcards and some of them are over 1000 cards long. I'm going through one deck but I can tell that to make it through 1000 I would essentially have to go through something like 4000 or 5000 cards (because for every wrong card you get 5 extra) which will take me at my current pace will take me something like 3 or 4 weeks.
It would be nice to have an option to quit one deck, start another, and then resume the first from where you left off...otherwise the whole Leitner system won't help too much because you really need a progression.
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Support Staff 1 Posted by drewmccormack on 30 May, 2011 07:57 AM
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.
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.
Hope that helps.
Kind regards,
Drew
2 Posted by Danny on 30 May, 2011 02:35 PM
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?
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.
Thanks Drew.
Support Staff 3 Posted by drewmccormack on 30 May, 2011 02:38 PM
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.
Make sense?
Drew
4 Posted by Danny on 30 May, 2011 10:53 PM
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!)
Editing within the card.
- 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.
Colors
- 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.
Some ability to put cards into crotical piles like those that you're just not getting right mo matter how often you review them.
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.
Support Staff 5 Posted by drewmccormack on 31 May, 2011 07:45 AM
Hi Danny,
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.
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.
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.
Colored backgrounds are coming very soon. Version 2.0 for the Mac will allow customization of it for each side.
We are also adding flagging in version 2.0. You could use this to mark a note for more study.
Hope that helps.
Kind regards,
Drew
6 Posted by Danny on 01 Jun, 2011 03:30 AM
Yes this does. Thank you for the comtinued help.
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.
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.
Support Staff 7 Posted by drewmccormack on 01 Jun, 2011 05:57 AM
Hi Danny,
You can resume your last slideshow, so you don't have go lose the progress.
You are right about slides not updating to reflect note content immediately. We will look into that.
Kind regards,
Drew