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How to take an extended break from intense studying/anki? - Womacks23 - 2010-09-14
Hey guys,
Just wondering if anyone else has ever run into the brick wall of being unable to intensively study Japanese for an extended period of time. How did you handle it?
I have some major projects coming up that is going to take away most of my study time until after Christmas. I have a 10,000 card deck and it usually takes 2 hours a day to study through everything so I'm worried about taking time off and opening up anki when I have free time again and seeing that I have 3,000 reviews.
What does the community suggest?
I'm actually considering deleting my entire deck and starting a fresh one for JLPT N1 study after Christmas.
How to take an extended break from intense studying/anki? - kame3 - 2010-09-15
Hmm, does it take you 2 hours for your reviews only?
Because I also have a 10.000 card deck (vocab only) and it usually took me around 90 minutes including new cards. Last week I've not been adding new cards and reviews quickly dropped to around 40 minutes per day and judging from the graphs they should be to 20 minutes within the week. I would say stop adding new cards and try to maintain your deck as much as possible.
I personally don't see how deleting your entire deck and starting a new one would save any time (or be more efficient).
How to take an extended break from intense studying/anki? - nadiatims - 2010-09-15
Just set your session limit to like 10 minutes, and suddenly you'll find you can do that 3 or 4 times a day no problem.
How to take an extended break from intense studying/anki? - Evil_Dragon - 2010-09-15
To me, shorter sessions mean more motivation. For most of my decks I use 5 minute intervals which seems to be the optimal amount of time for me (any longer and I tend to get bored). If I were you I'd experiment a little with different intervals to see which one suits you best.
How to take an extended break from intense studying/anki? - caivano - 2010-09-15
I would carry on but suspend any cards that give you trouble, that would get the time right down. and then you could unsuspend them when you have more time.
I took 2 weeks off a 7000 deck and ended up with 2500 waiting for me so you might have even more than 3000 after 3 months off :$
How to take an extended break from intense studying/anki? - Daichi - 2010-10-01
Try to get into the habit of doing at least a little each day. Like 10 minutes in the morning. If you find time for more later in the day, great, otherwise, you at least did something. I found that a complete break is always a bad idea for myself.
How to take an extended break from intense studying/anki? - rcloud - 2010-10-01
I agree that you should try to avoid a complete break and just do a little at a time when you are able to find a few free minutes.
Also, I definitely wouldn't delete your deck. So what if you come back and find 3,000+ reviews waiting for you? It's just Anki telling you that are at risk of forgetting those facts. That doesn't change if you delete your deck and start over again. Anki would no longer be telling you to review them, but unless you review them in your new deck, you probably will forget them.
I've been in that situation before of seeing roughly 3,000 reviews after a break and it is definitely daunting to see so many reviews staring you in the face. If it seems too overwhelming, try the postpone plugin. It allows you to space your overdue reviews out over the time period of your choice. It's a good little mind trick to keep you feeling positive and motivated.
How to take an extended break from intense studying/anki? - zer0range - 2010-10-01
Instead of viewing a queue of 3000 cards in review as a negative, instead view it as an advantage. The advantage is that for however much time it will take you to review those 3000 cards you literally do not have to plan a single step of your studies.
So, take your break and come back fresh and wanting to study. (Of course you could just hike your skirts up and keep studying.)
How to take an extended break from intense studying/anki? - harhol - 2010-10-01
Get up two hours earlier every day.
