NoSleepTilFluent Wrote:I'm confused at why you would want to start again.

Asriel Wrote:Best suggestion: Keep backups. Heck, get yourself a dropbox and keep everything you need in there.

But from what you can do now: I'm pretty sure you can add cards with larger initial delays, so that they are effectively "mature" cards. So that could help a bit...?

Or how about...since you already "know" everything that was in your previous decks, just make new decks and add like normal? The facts that are cemented in your head will be in there, and the ones that weren't so much you'll forget, and come across them again --> add them to the deck like normal.

jcdietz03 Wrote:Did you not have backups through anki.ichi2.net?

It's easy to set up these backups. I recommend them for all Anki users.

Ryuujin27 Wrote:I routinely throw out all my decks and start over. The second reviews pile up high, I fall behind, or get bored, out they all go.

It works pretty well, actually.

aphasiac Wrote:ta, read this thread:

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=4602

Assuming you're getting enough immersion from reading, you could just drop sentences and go vocab only. so much quicker and easier. Spend the time you save doing more reading and listening.

For production, I'd keep doing one writing deck so your kanji skills don't waste away. Maybe just keep a heisig deck, and actually practise japanese output via penpals and/or a lang-8 diary. You're definitely at the stage where you shouldn't need artificial output cards.

rachels Wrote:Once when I got really behind in Anki I dealt with it by resetting part of my deck. I opened the card browser and sorted by interval. All the well known cards with long intervals I left alone. All less well known, I either set to new or artificially spread over the next few weeks.
However, I recently discovered this tool - a plugin called cheat.py
http://groups.google.com/group/ankisrs-users/browse_thread/thread/ff0a04fe0d76bef9
Its approach seems preferable to the shared plugin - postpone reviews.
I like Anki a great deal, but there have also been times when I consider it a form of slavery. I know I could just ignore the fact that I have 700 cards due and do a few each day, but somehow it does bug me. So in future, when I have my really busy work day and don't get my anki done, Instead of pushing myself, ( I mean why can't I have a 6 day per week Anki routine, even if its suboptimal, it still works for me), what I will do is select my next 1 or 2 or 3 weeks of cards (or perhaps, of these, only those with intervals of less than, say, x days, still experimenting with this) and push them all back by exactly one day, and then carry on as normal.
I am not clear in my own mind, on the best way to use it if I am, for example, a month or 2 behind, but it is a useful tool.

thecite Wrote:I only do sentences when necessary, if I need it to see how the word is used, otherwise I just add vocab cards these days, works just as well.

hokaidogirl Wrote:Aside from the fact that I need to finish my study this year for my contrastive analysis for this Language, I kind of feel the itch to study this Kanji because my cousin in Hokaido needs a little help for this. I am a starter....and you are on your restarting mode.

zigmonty Wrote:I haven't read all of the posts so maybe i'm missing something, but if your stack of due cards is huge, there's a trick i sometimes do. In the anki browser, set the search to "is:due", then just reset those cards. It's not a great solution but it's better than just resetting the whole deck, including all the cards that aren't even due yet. A more advanced version is to combine that with what rachels said and only reset the due cards that are below a certain interval. That lets you pretty easily kill all the cards that were going to be painful to review.