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How to survive review blitz? - Squintox - 2008-09-06
How? I haven't added new cards in ages, and everytime a day goes by where I don't add any new cards I'm depressed and mad at myself throughout the day. I get about 150-300 reviews a day. It gets to around ~130 if I'm lucky.
I'm using Anki: so I downloaded the RLC Blitzer plug-in, but I find myself progressing too slowly. I even go to bed with still a 20-40 reviews left, because I'm too tired to finish them. So later, I download the postponer plug-in so I can delay 300 reviews over 3 days, but on the third day, when all the cards that were due 3 days come up, my retention rate is very poor (~50-60%). Also in the morning, where I clear around ~80 reviews (leaving around a 100 more), I come back and it's back up to the 200's. I thought about messing with scheduler to make it a bit more easy, but I fear it will reduce my retention rate in the long-term.
Does anyone have any good advice where you can survive the massive amount of reviews and still add new cards?
EDIT: Oh and I'm currently on frame 972, and have been doing Heisig for about a month. I used to add 70-90 a day until the review blitz dropped.
How to survive review blitz? - alyks - 2008-09-06
Just use the RLC Blitzer and focus on making your reviews faster.
What I did:
Get reviews down a reasonable amount first.
Add kanji incrementally (10 at a time).
Review with the 1 in 4 option enabled.
This was with around 300 a day. Search around, there's a thread on long review times.
How to survive review blitz? - Squintox - 2008-09-06
alyks Wrote:Just use the RLC Blitzer and focus on making your reviews faster.Thanks! I'll try doing that. I'll try looking around too, I'm sure I'm not the first to ask this question >_>
What I did:
Get reviews down a reasonable amount first.
Add kanji incrementally (10 at a time).
Review with the 1 in 4 option enabled.
This was with around 300 a day. Search around, there's a thread on long review times.
How to survive review blitz? - taijuando - 2008-09-06
stop when the reviewing becomes boring and do something in japanese...for a break... but always review...sometimes when I'm bored I push myself just to get down to a multiple of ten...sometimes I want to keep going and other days I don't...you might have huge piles but it will eventually whittle itself down and actually be on a more natural review schedule...have fun...don't be a slave to the srs
How to survive review blitz? - Zarxrax - 2008-09-06
What I found helpful with large reviews was to just do them constantly throughout the day rather than all in one go. Every 5 or 10 minutes I would answer a few cards, do something else, answer a few more...
How to survive review blitz? - vgambit - 2008-09-14
This is why I only use this site for the kanji lookup and stories. I don't actually use the SRS portion simply because the algorithm it is based on (what was it, Leitner?) is horribly outdated. What I've noticed after using SuperMemo 2006 for a few weeks is that on any given day (for the most part), I never have to review more than what I learn in a single session.
My current system is to learn kanji either in the morning or at night and review them a good few hours later (either the evening or the next day). Sometimes that initial review is on a day when I have a bunch of other kanji, but it's never too bad.
Then again, now that I think about it, I'm only on frame 220 or so. I might not have had enough frames added to experience this "blitz" I hear so much about with Anki and RevTK.
How to survive review blitz? - plumage - 2008-09-14
Yeah I have a feeling that once I get through RTK, I'll eventually transition away from the SRS on this site. I use Supermemo for vocab and it does seem to have a better interval system, on the whole.