I am doing RTK, yesterday just passed the 50% landmark.
In a couple of hours I have to leave for a trip to a place where I will have no Internet, no computer. The trip will last 5 days.
I am afraid that when I am back I will have lots to review and that in fact I have defy the puporse of SRS as I will delay most of the reviews and then do them all together instead of continue working on a steady pace.
I am using the SRS functionality of this site and currently I got like 100 kanji review/day, meaning that after 5 days I will have 400 or 500 kanji to review...

Also, I will have some free time in the trip for sure, would be nice to take advantage of it. Printing the 1100 kanji I have learned so far is not an option. Bringing with me RTK book either (I have an old edition that is hard cover, heavy and in Spanish, pretty different from what I am learning in this site).

Just stop adding new cards and review a set number each day until it's clear^^.

Enjoy your trip, and don't worry about it until you come back!

It's better to plan ahead for trips if you can. If you're going away for five days, make sure that the cards you get per day multiplied by five won't overwhelm you when you get back.

For example, I'm getting about 40 cards per day. I'm going away this weekend for 3 days, so when I get back, I'll probably have about 120 cards waiting for me. That's not too bad.

If I was getting 80 cards per day, I would stop adding new cards for a week or two before going on holiday, so that the number of cards I'm getting per day comes down to a more suitable level.

Buy an ipod touch.

5 days is not that bad. If you just double you workload for an equal amount of days that will be enough to clear the accumulated due cards.

Pretty much all you do is review a set amount of time per day. If there's still reviews left, leave them for tomorrow.

Yeah, five days of built up reviews sound like a lot. However, by learning early to let time dictate how much you review you save headaches for later.

Here's another option (to stop failed card build-up):

Review till your failed cards build up to a certain amount, like 25. At that point, restudy your failed cards and call it a day. When you get to the point that you finished your reviews and don't have 25 failed cards, you can get back to adding new cards again.

Jarvik7 Wrote:Buy an ipod touch.

This is what I did. Get portable people!

The ipod touch is a great little device, but it won't help the OP since internet connectivity won't be available. Unless there's some off-line features of this site that I don't know about?

Montrealer Wrote:The ipod touch is a great little device, but it won't help the OP since internet connectivity won't be available. Unless there's some off-line features of this site that I don't know about?

Anki

Also I think you should never completely stop adding new cards. At least, not for more than a day or two. Learning new things is fun, reviewing what we should already know less so. Stopping for a long time is a good way to lose one's motivation.

When I get too many due cards in Anki, the first thing I do is just suspend them: problem solved

Then I continue to add new cards and to review normally. When I have the time I unsuspend some of the cards. The point is to avoid completely the feeling of being overwhelmed by a ton of due reviews. Unfortunately, you can't do that with the SRS on this site...