Overall Concept

This app is intended for people who want to organize and reinforce in their memory information that they want to learn. Here's how you would use Mneme:

1. First, you need to register and sign in. This is a pretty standard process, and it gives you privileges to create and edit. You will also be allowed to share with other users, organize users into groups, and give other users or groups privileges to read or edit what you have created. You can use the Login link in the menu above.
2. If you are working with an empty database, you first need to input a Source. A Source is the resources that you draw from to learn whatever it is you want to learn. It can be anything: Lecture, book, article from a periodical, interview, video, anything. The only question you should ask is whether or not it qualifies as a reliable source for your purposes. For example, say you are testing on the life of a public figure. That public figure's opinion is relevant and their quotes from recorded interviews are reliable for that purpose. But say you are instead researching for a science test. A public figure would not be a reliable source. You would want to instead cite scientific evidence.
3. Make notes from your sources. Notes are exactly what they sound like. They are a summary or response to what you are getting from the source. They can be short quotes you want to highlight, a summary of long and complex information, questions to later answer, observations, comments, etc. In Mneme, Notes are very simple, the simplest part of the app. You are required to point the Note to at least one Source. If more than one Source confirms your Note, it means your note has more sources to back up its claim.
4. For information you want to reinforce over time, create one or more Quiz questions. The Quiz question is meant to challenge a user, either its creator or people to whom the creator has shared the Quiz. It presents a prompt of some type and provides one or more inputs for the user to enter their response. This can come in a few different forms:
   • Prompt/Response, similar to flashcards
   • Multiple Choice
   • Ordered List Answers, when the response to a question is in a list and order matters
   • Unordered List Answers, when order does not matter
   • Fill-in-the-Blank
   But you are required to point the Quiz to at least one thing from which its information is drawn, either a Note or a Source. You can, of course, use more than one Note and/or Source, and the more a Quiz has, the more there is to back up whatever the Quiz is claiming, including what is considered a correct response to its prompt.
5. Now Mneme is ready to use for studying or organizing information. You can use it any way you like. Say you are listening to a few interviews from someone, and you want to assess and respond to how they think. You can create a Source for each of their interviews, articles, and blog posts. And you can make Notes for what they express in those sources. If you, for some reason, need to memorize what they say, you can create Quizzes for you to use on a regular basis to challenge your memory.

Quiz Questions

Your main draw to Mneme may be its Quiz questions. You can use those to put together quizzes that you can share.

There are, so far, five different types of quiz questions to choose from:

• Prompt/Response, similar to flashcards
• Multiple Choice
• Ordered List Answers, when the response to a question is in a list and order matters
• Unordered List Answers, when order does not matter
• Fill-in-the-Blank

Here is an example of a quiz question:

If you can edit it, you can see a few things about how it's put together:

Notice the "Type" select. Try out the various types that a quiz question can be. Notice how the editor changes when the type changes. This means that what each part of the editor means changes when the type changes. For "Prompt/Response" type, the "Answers" list is a list of valid answers to the one response a user can give.

When on type "Multiple Choice," you are also permitted to add a list of "choices," which are choices a user will be given to select from to answer the question. The "answers" list are all the choices that will be accepted as correct (and you can make more than one choice correct).

A Quiz question must have either a related Source or a Note. This is the Note or Source from which the Quiz gets its correct answer. You can have multiple sources and/or notes for each Quiz question.

If you are creating a new Quiz question without a Note or Source, you have the option to create a new Source or a Note that you may later have the Quiz point to with "related sources" or "related notes". Clicking "Create New Source" or "Create New Note" opens a modal with the same form that you would use to create a new Note or Source. Try both buttons to get a sneak peek at what you will need to create a Source and Note.