How do you Memrise?
Do you just use the dashboard all the time and do what they let you? Or do you have other methods? e.g.
Here's how I work. If something occurs to me, I do it. I use "open in new tab" and save the tasks for later. I use shortcuts to places I frequently go like "Feature Suggestions", "Gardens", or the link to plant new seeds to my current favorite course.
I often open several things from Gardens each in a new tab, and pop between them, pausing them after they load, but having them load at least. 1 out of 4 times it "loads" forever, so I can leave that alone and refresh it after I finish everything else.
Let's all share tips and compare notes. How do you use Memrise mostly?
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It seems useful if you're learning one course - at the end of each round it drops you on a summary of that course. But I'm learning several, so I'd like an option to water all the wilting plants at once, or plant new seeds for everything at once. As it is, I end up clicking back to the general gardens page at the end of every round to work out what to do next.
I would "open in new tab" but the dashboard doesn't update with what you've just done, so I get a bit lost about which thing to do next. I can't open a whole load of tabs at once because they start without me! Perhaps an option to queue things would solve this?
Posted by romney 5/17/12 (1 year ago)Actually even with those shortcomings I still find that the new tabs save me some time and help me go automatically to the next thing I wanted to do. I just refresh the dashboard when I go back to it, although it would be nice if it updated the parts that had changed in some lower bandwidth way than reloading the whole thing.
I think lessons could automatically pause themselves if there is no focus on them. I believe javascript can do this... So they could automatically paused. I think this comes from an old issue where people always miss the first question because they are waiting for the lesson to load and then miss when it starts. when it starts there should be a "ready!" thing you hit enter on or something. This would also solve that issue.
Posted by ThatHorse 5/18/12 (1 year ago)Yes, it would be useful if it knew you had gone off to do something else. But at least you only lose the first question - it pauses indefinitely at the definition after that.
Posted by romney 5/19/12 (1 year ago)I'm with Romney that would be nice to drop somewhere other than a summary for a course that no longer has anything needing attention... also always click out to the other courses every time.
Posted by snowcreature99 5/21/12 (1 year ago)Just another comment on this topic, I find that multi-coursing is really the way to go. It adds an extra layer of interest for me. With one course it feels like I'm just plowing some field. But when I can go choose which course, like I'm bored of one, but I can catch up on another... like I'm strategically tending a garden, that's a bit more interesting.
Posted by ThatHorse 6/11/12 (1 year ago)