Re: [Orgmode] [ANN] Org-Drill: Interactive revision a la Anki/Mnemosyne

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Paul,

should this become a contributed package?

- Carsten

On Aug 1, 2010, at 3:02 AM, Paul Sexton wrote:

> Announcing the first release of "org-drill", a module which uses  
> "org-learn" to
> present interactive "drill sessions" of marked material in org  
> buffers and
> files. Org-learn, which is found in org's "contrib" directory, is an
> implementation of the spaced repetition algorithm from SuperMemo.
>
> Repository:
> http://bitbucket.org/eeeickythump/org-drill
>
> See the preamble in org-drill.el, and the accompanying file  
> "spanish.org", for
> documentation and examples.
>
> I have tried to make it quite customisable. You can set variables to  
> control
> number of items per session, and max session duration. You can also  
> create
> custom "card types" and write elisp functions to control how the  
> information in
> those topics is displayed.
>
> Note that org-learn currently considers items rated 4 or 5 (ie  
> perfect or
> excellent recall) as NEVER needing to be revised. I think this is a  
> misfeature
> of org-learn, and I hope it will eventually be fixed. For now, if  
> you use
> org-drill and rate items as 4 or 5, org-drill will consider them as  
> "new" each
> time you rpeat the drill session, so they will always come up.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
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- Carsten