snozle Wrote:I absolutely love iFlash - have tried some other software but always come back to iFlash. The design is great - very minimal and Apple-like. There is no limit to the number of cards or card sides; and you can even embed pictures and (I believe) sounds. You can change the font and the layout of the card, the only thing you can't change for some reason is colour - so I can't colour-code my Mandarin tones, which is irritating.Serge Wrote:Any reason why you're not using iFlash on your Macs?Are you using iFlash? If so, do you use the interval method and do you use it on the default values? The one drawback I see in mnemosyne is it's apparent lack of support for more than 2 sides, which may lead me back to iFlash in the future.
I always have it on Leitner repetition but I have changed the default value for incorrectly remembered cards: the default 'mistake' makes you lose 2 points and I've changed it to one, this works better for me.
There is also flexibility in reviewing a limited number of cards at a time or all of them at once. I have huge vocabulary and character files so I tend to review by level, starting from the highest. This also allows me to concentrate and prioritise better: e.g., if I'm reviewing something that has a value of 7 points (i.e., I have succesfully managed to recall it 7 times), I know I have to know this item very well, including (for Mandarin) the tones. If an item is at 1, I tend to be more lenient, if it's at 3 - I know I have managed to recall it properly before so this makes me think a bit harder. With lists running into (literally) thousands of items this methodolody seems to make sense.
I'm only running 3 stacks at the moment: Japanese vocabulary, with 4 sides (kanji, kana, a rough translation and a dictionary entry with examples); Mandarin vocabulary (words or sentences, pinyin, rough translation) and all Hanzi (around 6000 entries - characters, pinyin, rough translation and the index number to link back to the book I'm using). For the moment I'm working hard to create the Japanese vocabulary and the Hanzi files, but I may expand the number of stacks in the future to, e.g., the four-character sayings or lexical units picked from my reading, etc.
I only wish I could run iFlash on my Blackberry. :-(