Re: [Memaid-users] Grade's for vocabulary learing and Categories

[Peter B. <Pet...@UG...>]

On Sunday 30 November 2003 10:23, Andreas Grau wrote:
> Thanks, Peter and David, for your responses. You both helped me well
> improving my usage and view of memaid.
>
> I changed inasmuch as I begin to thing off memaid as a recalling-aid,
> not so much a learning tool. memaid keeps knowledge active, there often
> needs to be a learning process before - where memaid may or may not help
> well. In my restaurant example, it doesn't help much if I don't feed
> this vocabulary into a separate database using low grades to enforce
> frequent and focused repetition (aka drilling exercise)

True, that's why I implemented the 'drill badly-known' feature in PyQt memaid. 
When I need to drill e.g. the vocabulary of this week's lesson, I input it 
with a low grade, and then 'drill badly-known' will keep on presenting me the 
item until the grade is high enough, while the 'optimally scheduled' learning 
mode will make sure I don't forget the older items.

Hope this helps,

Peter

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