4 years user's question

user card matt‭ 12 days ago

4 years user's question

I've been using Mochi for 4 years. Everything else is nearly perfect, but two issues have been bothering me:

  1. I drag and drop cards to sort them on my computer. When I import them into the mobile app, I like to review all my cards from start to finish each time. When I tap the "New Card" button, the first review goes through the cards in order from start to finish, but the order seems to get messed up afterwards. I have selected Cam mode and set sorting to "creation date," but when I drag newly added cards to the middle of the existing cards, those new cards end up at the end when I use Cam mode. This breaks the logical flow of the content I need to memorize. I hope the sorting can follow the order I drag and drop on the computer mochi program.

  2. I use iOS. For example, if a deck has 50 cards and I stop after reviewing 25 cards by putting the app in the background, when I reopen the app after some time, I have to start all over again from the beginning.

user card Matt‭ Admin 12 days ago

Hi Matt, Thanks for sticking with Mochi for such a long time!

I'll try to answer your questions as best I can here. If I misunderstood something, please let me know.

When I tap the "New Card" button, the first review goes through the cards in order from start to finish, but the order seems to get messed up afterwards.

The "new cards" review screen orders cards according to whatever sorting rule is set on that deck's page. The default sort order is "manual" (ie drag and drop cards to define their relative order in the deck).

When reviewing cards that are due, (ie "due today" or "inbox") the sort order is random and cannot be changed.

I have selected Cam mode and set sorting to "creation date," but when I drag newly added cards to the middle of the existing cards, those new cards end up at the end when I use Cam mode.

That would make sense as dragging a card to rearrange its sort order does not change its creation date. Use manual sorting instead.

I use iOS. For example, if a deck has 50 cards and I stop after reviewing 25 cards by putting the app in the background, when I reopen the app after some time, I have to start all over again from the beginning.

Cram sessions do not persist between app restarts, so if the app exits while being backgrounded, you will lose your cram session progress.

user card matt‭ 3 days ago

Dear Matt,

Thank you for your answers. Regarding the second question, I understand it now.

For the first question, I now get the logic behind the "new cards" review screen – it makes sense and should work well for most people's study habits.

However, I personally prefer the cram mode. But when I tap the "clear sort (manual)" option, the card order in cram mode doesn't match the order I manually arranged on my computer (by dragging and dropping). Could you please test this? For example, create 3–5 cards, modify one card and change its position, then add a new card and drag it to the top. What I'd really like is that when I use cram mode without applying any sort (i.e., no sorting rule active), the card order should be exactly the same as the manual order I set on my computer.

Thanks for looking into this!

user card Matt‭ Admin 1 day ago

Hey @matt‭, I just tested this out and it looks like you're right! That's a bug, I think, and I'll see if I can get that fixed in time for the next release.

user card matt‭ 1 day ago

Thank you Matt. Thank you for developing such a wonderful app. It's clean, elegant, and incredibly practical—it has been a huge help to my studies. It's my favorite app of the past few years. It's truly excellent, and I really appreciate you creating it.