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Product Description:
Mental Case is many things - a drop box for your thoughts; RSS for your head; an index of your knowledge - but ultimately, it's just a fun way to remember stuff. And 'stuff' can be anything, from your new mobile phone number to the Presidents of the United States - Mental Case can even help you remember to stick to a diet.
All you do is gather tidbits of information in 'mental notes'. Enter some text, drop in an image, take a screen shot, or even snap a picture with your iSight. Mental Case schedules the note to reappear at future dates. When you have a few minutes to spare, you watch the scheduled notes in a slide show. Mental Case makes learning a pleasure.
All you do is gather tidbits of information in 'mental notes'. Enter some text, drop in an image, take a screen shot, or even snap a picture with your iSight. Mental Case schedules the note to reappear at future dates. When you have a few minutes to spare, you watch the scheduled notes in a slide show. Mental Case makes learning a pleasure.
What's new in this version:
- A whole new slideshow toolbar has been added (Thanks Wrinkly Pea for the beautiful design!). It allows you to perform limited changes to notes, such as resetting the lesson schedule, or moving them to the Trash.
- Added ‘correction’ to slideshows. You can now indicate if you got a particular mental note ‘wrong’, and cause it to appear more often. In lesson slideshows, marking a note wrong causes its learning progress to remain unchanged. This will mean it will reappear in the next lesson slideshow. For non-lesson slideshows, a slide marked as wrong will be re-added to the end of the current slideshow.
- Introduced automatic backing up of the Mental Case library. This can be configured via the preferences panel. Backups are made daily, when Mental Case is running. Mental Case will also move old backups to the Trash.
- Updated quick entry panels. The image entry panel now has space for some text. A new ‘complete’ quick note provides a panel with prompt and content, including images and text.
- The Mental Case window will now fade out during screenshots. To override this behavior, just hold down the shift key when starting the screenshot.
- A text service has been added, which is available from the Services menu of any application. It turns any selected text into a mental note.
- New preferences have been added for what should happen when notes and cases are deleted.
- Added Notes > Find Notes menu item that causes the filter field in the main window to get focus.
- Added a white border and drop shadow to images in slideshows.
- Filtering of notes now ignores accents.
- Fixed a small bug in CSV import, which could sometimes leave a comma at the end of the text content.
- Slides in a lesson slideshow are now ordered according to the date they were added to the lesson.
- Added a ‘Big Text’ slideshow theme, which is useful for exporting to an iPod or iPhone.
- The ‘iCal’ theme now shows the correct date in the background.
- Sample data has been updated to include a Getting Started case.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS Classic
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| Overall Rating: |   (4.0) |
Features: | (2.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (2.0) |
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Wrong price - Version: 1.4, 9/19/2008 02:11AM PST
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paidhi
The price of $ 39 listet here ist wrong.
According to the website this software costs only $25.
According to the website this software costs only $25.
Good for Straightforward Memorization - Version: 1.4, 9/17/2008 04:19PM PST
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dmillar12
The design and feel of the site is great-- however, for my specific purposes (studying Chinese) it doesn't work well on two counts:
1) It does not allow for more than 2 "sides" to a card (think Chinese character, reading, meaning)
2) It does not allow for any customization of how you import your CSV data; I have most of my vocab from college separated by tabs, which works fine for apps like iFlash where you can customize how you import it. Actually, if you think about it it looks pretty silly to have a bunch of commas and quote marks in your vocab list. (首都, shoudu, capital"," ""capital city"")
If the developer could add these two features, I would gladly buy and use this app. I like the design a lot (better than iFlash) but it's too difficult to keep or convert vocab lists in plain CSV format.
1) It does not allow for more than 2 "sides" to a card (think Chinese character, reading, meaning)
2) It does not allow for any customization of how you import your CSV data; I have most of my vocab from college separated by tabs, which works fine for apps like iFlash where you can customize how you import it. Actually, if you think about it it looks pretty silly to have a bunch of commas and quote marks in your vocab list. (首都, shoudu, capital"," ""capital city"")
If the developer could add these two features, I would gladly buy and use this app. I like the design a lot (better than iFlash) but it's too difficult to keep or convert vocab lists in plain CSV format.
Mental Case does its job very well. Makes learning so much easier. You don't have to worry about when to review, or what to review, because it takes care of all that for you.
In the interests of disclosure, I did review this app previously. But that was some time ago, and before I actually bought it. There have been improvements since then, and I have had more opportunity to evaluate the app. It has certainly risen in my estimation.
Give it a try.