Notecard Software

[Almighty Malachi]

Anyone use anything special to make notecards? If so, let me know.

[Almighty Malachi]

Guideline:

Preferably something that's easy to print out, has sorting capabilities, etc.

[far_side]

Solution:

Looks like you already found a method that works!

[Ron Weasley]

I've found nothing. I've looked for solutions that ran on Windows, Linux, Windows Mobile or Palm. All that I've found have something that for me is a "mission critical" flaw. The biggest problem was finding something that I could put formulas and graphs into quickly.

The best that I've found (not good, just best) is not a notecard application at all, but a Java application that run's inside an appropriate browser (such as Firefox or Internet Explorer). Using Tiddlywiki with the jsMath plugin for equations and the nested slider plugin so that you can use headers for the question and a nested slider to reveal the answer makes a solution that can be run on any machine that runs IE or Firefox.

The up side is that, once you've learned the system, you can knock out a lot of "note cards" very quickly, store them on a thumb drive or a personal internet account, and access them from virtually any computer. The down side is that they print out like a regular HTML document insead of physical note cards and none of the smartphone browsers currently have a Java engine strong enough to support it. Also, this is pretty late in the exam prep game for learning a new system.

RW

[Almighty Malachi]

Yeah, I'm looking for something for next spring, so I'm open to learning a new system.

I'm thinking I'll just end up using Word... not the best solution, but pretty flexible in terms of what I can throw on the things.

[Jugglerbob]

I used to prepare mine it Word, but now I LaTeX them. LaTeX goes a lot faster and looks nicer. More importantly, if I decide I want to change some formatting, it's much easier than in Word.

[BG5150]

Windows version 1.0 had a Notecard application, but I don't rememebr how it printed. (It was 1987, afterall)

[BassFreq]

After reading this Wired article, http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/...urrentPage=all ,
I thought about trying http://www.supermemo.com/ (freeware), but I never got around to installing it. Sounds like if you have the notecards created in Word or PDF or parts of a web page, this might be a viable option.

One of the comments on the Wired article mentions http://www.bettermemo.com/ ($29 if you want more than 30 cards)

Another comment mentions a freeware online tool using the same algorhythm at http://spicyelephant.com/

Another mentions iFlash (enough with the efriggin ithis and ethat!) http://loopware.com/iflash/ (Mac OS only) and wrote about it here: http://joelsimone.com/new-ways-of-learning/

Another comment mentions an open source alternative http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/
A comparison of mnemosyne and super memo is here : http://www.nihongoperapera.com/spaced-repetition-memory-software.html

If anyone here decides to give any of these a try, I would really like to hear if any reviews.

[railfan]

I've been doing mine in LaTeX too. I finally figured out how to edit some files in my LaTeX installation to force it to print the PDF in 4x6 note card format.

Don't know what exam you are on, but if you are doing MLC/CAS 3, here is a LaTeX style file for the lifecon symbols: http://maths.dur.ac.uk/stats/courses/AMII/am.html

JT

[Phil]

Notecards, what are they?