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ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
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Posted by john oconnor
Oct 16, 2007 at 03:40 AM
I really like the idea of using a program like Ndxcards to store knowledge. I like the idea of shuffling these cards and quickly rearranging them to find new relationships. New knowledge structures can be quickly created and then quickley torn down and rebuid. What does ConnectedText add to this process?
Thank You
John O’Connor
Posted by john oconnor
Oct 16, 2007 at 08:10 PM
I just had an Eureka moment with ConnectedText. With ConnectedText the cards shuffle themselves without the need for human intervention. How very interesting.
Posted by Matty
Oct 18, 2007 at 03:30 AM
... please elaborate, if you would.
john oconnor wrote:
>I just had an Eureka moment with ConnectedText. With ConnectedText the cards shuffle
>themselves without the need for human intervention. How very interesting.
Posted by quant
Oct 18, 2007 at 03:25 PM
do you mean by shuffling randomizing? That is not the most effective way to gain a long-term knowledge, ... this is a good reading if you are aiming to study a lot of info effectively http://www.supermemo.com
john oconnor wrote:
>I just had an Eureka moment with ConnectedText. With ConnectedText the cards shuffle
>themselves without the need for human intervention. How very interesting.
Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Oct 18, 2007 at 04:22 PM
For me, Connected Text is like Zoot. These are programs I am sure are very good, if based only on the users recommending these products. Connected Text has the most impressive set of testimonials (including Manfred’s) I have seen. The problem for me is that it seems impossible to see the usefulness first hand without spending considerable time working with these programs, and no one seems able or willing—one or the other—to explain systematically how the program delivers its benefits. Plus, what I do know about these programs would ordinarily lead me to reject them summarily, were it not for the compelling recommendations.
Connected Text requires memorizing a set of conventions, a process that might lead me to use supermemo (mentioned in this thread) to learn CT’s conventions, if I wanted to use Connected Text. I’m skeptical of undirected connections as in Wikis, and I don’t understand how CT can produce an outline (which involves directed connections) from the undirected connections that CT allows. Maybe someone can explain.
CT seems to have substantial overlap with ndxcards as to functionality. Which is the better choice, I haven’t a clue. But ndxcards is immediately understandable to me, I use it, and I would use it more, were the pace of development a bit faster.
One caveat about programs that do require memorizing many conventions. I find these are forgotten very quickly. Even using very intuitive programs suffer when I don’t use them for a couple of weeks. It seems to me that to use something like CT very effectively, you would need to use it a lot.
john oconnor wrote:
>I really like the idea of using a program like Ndxcards to store knowledge. I like the
>idea of shuffling these cards and quickly rearranging them to find new
>relationships. New knowledge structures can be quickly created and then quickley
>torn down and rebuid. What does ConnectedText add to this process?
>
>Thank You
>
>John
>O’Connor