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.

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.

alyks Wrote: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.

Thanks! I'll try doing that. I'll try looking around too, I'm sure I'm not the first to ask this question >_>

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

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...

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.

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.