1. By contrast, both Mnemosyne and Anki handle this better.

2. In Mnemosyne and SuperMemo, repetitions are scheduled day by day, and hours don't matter.

3. By contrast, both Mnemosyne and SuperMemo hold all of the missed cards at the end, making you view all of the cards for the day before repeating any.

4. Mnemosyne, whose name is spelled with some difficulty, is spelled on the lower part of your handout.

5. Both Mnemosyne and Anki have active forums where you can get help quickly.

5. is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

6. Any of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus each of whom presided over a different art or science.

7. Mnemosyne functions very similarly to SuperMemo-- that is, it asks you a question, you grade it from 0-5, and then the software handles the scheduling for you.

8. The spacing algorithms of Mnemosyne and Anki are nearly the same.

9. However, several of Anki's additional features result in a feel that is different than the SuperMemo/Mnemosyne approach.

10. Now, there's an important reason for this genealogy, the idea that the muses are the daughter of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory.

11. Although this is among the simplest features that you would expect all programs to have, both Mnemosyne and SuperMemo lack it.

12. SuperMemo was originally developed as a doctoral dissertation, and Mnemosyne is programmed by a professor who is using it to collect data (voluntarily) in a long-term research project on human memory.