mnemo - a memory training application
Copyright 2003,2005 Rick Miller
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The author may be reached at rdmiller3@gmail.com
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- DOCUMENTATION
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- Read "mnemo.help.html".
- FEATURES
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- Drill intervals are tracked per-item.
- Accellerated intervals.
- Keyword-based content filtering (i.e., so kids can be spared the "naughty bits" in their vocabulary lessons.)
- REQUIREMENTS
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- Perl
- a POSIX-y environment like Linux, or Cygwin for Windows
- Apache with PHP support.
- PostgreSQL
- INSTALLATION
To build the automatically generated lesson files,
use the command, "make" (or "make build").
To install, edit the first section of the Makefile and
use the command "make install". That'll take care of
building, if you haven't. You may need to be "root".
- CONFIGURATION
Make a "$HOME/mnemo" subdirectory and copy the
$(INSTALL_DIR)/etc/mnemo/* files you wish to learn
into it. Keep the subdirectory structure for better
organization.
Optionally, you can give mnemo a list of files and/or
directories on the command line and it will recurse
through those. They must be writeable. This is useful
when you'd like to allow multiple people to use mnemo
through a single user account. For example, I have
a family login account that all my kids use, and each
has their own mnemo shortcut on the desktop which runs
the command, "cd ~/kids_mnemo; mnemo <name>". You may
need to make shell scripts for that under Windows.
Directories and files given to mnemo will be drilled
in sorted order. That means you may want to lay things
out a bit differently than what you find in the etc/mnemo
subdirectory. For example, you might want to make sure
that all the material from the first week's lessons
gets mastered before the material for the next week
is presented:
<student>/grade07_week01_History.mnemo
<student>/grade07_week01_Math.mnemo
<student>/grade07_week01_Science.mnemo
<student>/grade07_week02_History.mnemo
<student>/grade07_week02_Math.mnemo
<student>/grade07_week02_Science.mnemo
Rick Miller <rdmiller3@gmail.com>