I have 40TB of low value videos to review
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Mat W. commented on this video:
I have 40TB of low value videos to review. I can’t really incrementally watch those. Nothing educational in them
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Incremental video does not need to be incremental. It does not need to be educational. For a huge collection of videos, you need some rational way of review. Otherwise it becomes a huge collection that you never watch. You might use names or folders for a meaningful classification, and some system for reviewing all that. However, this seems like a lot of effort incl. mental effort, esp. for low priority videos. Instead, you could pick videos from a queue, mark some with higher priority (if you want to view them more often), sent some to long intervals (if they are boring), or delete or dismiss those that are not worth your attention. The cost of such review is near zero if you ignore intervals and priorities, and still you will be able to progress through the whole mass in some rational manner.
For example, imagine you have a 40TB collection of 10,000 home videos. How can you maximize fun, at minimum effort?
Here is an exemplary approach:
- import all files to a single collection
- click Learn
- keep watching
- if the video is boring, click Start to mark the point when you will start reviewing next time
- (optionally) send the video far into the future (e.g. Interval=1111 will say "I do not want to see it in the next 3 years")
- (optionally) if video is very unimportant, mark its priority with 99% (or similar)
- (optionally) if you really want to watch the video till the end, mark it with high priority (e.g. 0%)(you need auto-sort on)
- click Next repetition
- continue until you get bored
Even if you watch a minute of a few videos per day, you will be making a steady progress into the collection, and sift out videos worth watching. Without this systematic approach, chances are, you have made some videos that you will never see in your entire life! Even if you watch only 1 minute of each video, and spend 5 minutes every day, it will take you 6 years to check each video. Without incremental approach, your 40TB collection might be just a wasted hard disk space.
General comment on massive data in SuperMemo
You raised an important point that affects many owners of massive data. It is important to illustrate that the power of incremental approach extends well beyond education. Home video proliferates. Less ambitious applications proliferate too. Incremental approach is useful in many domains. Very few users are aware of this. Instead, they tend to hoard text files, pictures, videos, etc. Some users use folders on their hard disk, others use more advanced tools (e.g. Picassa, YouTube, Facebook, etc.). It is important to show that SuperMemo can organize those files nicely with very little cost, and provide a systematic way to incrementally improve searchability and applicability of data. Naturally, watching home video has also side effects related to memory (recall of events, recall of dates, recall of faces or names, etc.). Entertainment always has some educational value.