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Be a Mental Case



Mental Case is an interesting new application that brings a Mac twist to flash card memorization. As the developer notes: "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 date."

Basically, you create the equivalent of flash cards in sets called "Cases." Then at scheduled intervals (which you can adjust) Mental Case will ask you if you have time to run through one of your cases. If so, it will display the cards with a rotating cube effect (though this is customizable in the preferences). This looks like a great way to learn the sorts of things one learns with flash cards (e.g. simple facts, languages, etc.). I like the idea of having it prompt me while I'm using my Mac (which is to say about 50% of my waking hours), since that way I don't have to formulate a specific intention to run through the cards. As the developer says: it's like "RSS for you head."

Mental Case is in beta right now and a free download, but it will become commercial at some point.

[Via MacNN]