jeffberhow Wrote:I started using a step size of 0.08 0.16 0.32 0.64 5, recommended by vosmiura for vocab, when my retention started dipping and it's helped bring it back up and it's at 73% for Learning and 90% for Young.
vosmiura Wrote:@jeffberhow, good to know. I haven't tried it for kanji.Can one of you guys explain what these numbers mean? I just started dramatically increasing the number of new cards a day and and worried about getting overwhelmed with reviews each day. The only way I know how to handle this is to reduce the number of reviews each day. But it sounds like by changing the various options in anki I can also cause right answers to increase the intervals more. But I just don't understand those menus or what these numbers mean.
I used 0.08 as a first interval because that was about how long it too me to do a review. If I was doing it for kanji, they take longer to review so I might have done 0.16 0.32 0.64 1.28 5 for example. Totally untested though if it would improve results or not :-D.
Thanks.