I have already done my reviews for today and I feel I can do more. In addition I know tomorrow will be a busy day, so I was thinking to move up some reviews from tomorrow to today, to unload the work for tomorrow.

I know the Anki algorithm tries to schedule the reviews in an optimal way, but we know human memory is not so linear, so there could be nothing like a perfect SRS algorithm. I think this is true especially for long time intervals. So if a card due for tomorrow was answered 1 year ago the last time, it does make little difference if I review it tomorrow or today. In other words 1 day of difference does not screw up the SRS effectiveness for cards with large intervals.

But to what extent we can push ourselves? At what time interval does this process become risky?

If I move up to today all the reviews I have for tomorrow for cards seen the last time 1 month ago? Or two weeks ago? How much I'm going to undermine my retention?

Considering my cards answered 1 months ago due for tomorrow are only 10, it's worthwhile to review them today considering the little advantage in terms of work unload?

I think you spent more time thinking about it that just reviewing them. I also suggest you to add to Anki the load balancer plugin https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1417170896.

DrJones Wrote:I think you spent more time thinking about it that just reviewing them. I also suggest you to add to Anki the load balancer plugin https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1417170896.

Asd it's true I overthinked it but only because I plan to do it often in future, but only if it's not too detrimental.

That plugin is very useful, too bad it doesn't work on AnkiDroid, which is where I do reviews most of the time :/

There is a way to add "easy" and "hard" choices in custom study decks? Or to change the due date of a card without resetting them?

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cophnia61 Wrote:I know the Anki algorithm tries to schedule the reviews in an optimal way, but we know human memory is not so linear, so there could be nothing like a perfect SRS algorithm. I think this is true especially for long time intervals. So if a card due for tomorrow was answered 1 year ago the last time, it does make little difference if I review it tomorrow or today. In other words 1 day of difference does not screw up the SRS effectiveness for cards with large intervals.

If you use the "Review Ahead" by x days feature in a custom deck then Anki will be unaffected. Anki will reduce the new schedules to compensate; for example, if you were to review a card tomorrow and 'Good' would have increased the interval to 20 days, then using Review Ahead the 'Good' interval may only be 18 days. Think of the 'Good' button being like a mini 'Hard'.

Avoid the load balancing plug-in unless you are adding masses of new cards that you've already seen before (e.g. restarting RTK). It is very easy to reduce the effectiveness of the scheduling algorithm.

cophnia61 Wrote:....Or to change the due date of a card without resetting them?

If you select some cards in the browser, you can choose reschedule. Not only will it change when you next see the cards, it will change their interval.