I think we may possibly start a new thread for flash card aspect of this project as discrete from the separate memory palace task (even if the two are effected in the same TBX).
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Really good Mark, nice job. Well done.
Tom
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Thanks. I think that, given recent improvements to the preview interface, i think that might be better. Now Iāve figured a logic for ensuring repetition of all items N times per cycle, I think a template with a JavaScript action to show/hide the answer might be a better way to go.
Much of the unseen problems I tripped on for the last examples is that altering attributes triggering an edict is a curse as well as a blessing. IOW, events the I didnāt think important the app did and triggered a edict call with results ā¦ I didnāt want. Not the appsā fault, i hasten to add, but all part of exploring possibilities. Iād be frank that trying to make an experience link Anki out of Tinderbox is an exercise in laziness. Better, IMO, would be to export the data to an app focussed on the flash card experience. But, that wasnāt the challenge.
For instance, Anki (free/open) has an import format for Question/Answer data that Tinderbox can easily generate. Iām sure there are alternatives to Anki. I only mention it as itās just the example of the app type of which I know.
The real lesson here is the diminishing returns of trying to use an app for a purpose for which it isnāt intentionally designed because weāre too lazy to shift app focus to a different app for a specific task. Letās be honest, it is laziness. We can confect all sorts of excuses about ābeing in the flowā, etc., but Iām unconvinced itās anything but self-serving. Itās not that I havenāt found the exercise above interesting. Far from it, Iāve learned a lot about triggering of events in Tinderbox, variable scope/persistence, and such. But mainly Iāve learned that building a racing car out of scrap-at-hand when youāve already got real one, for free, sitting on the drive, is self-defeating. Plus, unless you use flashcards in Tinderbox by running full screen in preview mode how are you hiding other distractions? Isnāt that part of the process? Doing flash cards whilst scanning Twitter, email, etcā¦ might not be the learning we intended.
Iām duly reminded at how bad we humans are at getting lost in the immediate context and not evaluating it in the wider context.
TL;DR. Iād build the mind palace in Tinderbox and probably export the flash card data to an app designed for the task. also, if doing mind palace work and with an Oculus 2, Iād check out Noda and SoftSpace. again Tinderbox can generate data such apps could consume. We tend to get stuck in the data-roach model model. Data comes into the app but never leaves. Ironic, as Tinderbox export process is very powerful.