Searched around a fair bit and didn't find much discussion about this either here or on the Anki forum itself, but my question is fairly specifically aimed at the types of decks created by us folk here, so hopefully it's not out of line.

I've been using .25 for all of my decks (RTK, vocab and general sentence stuff), but it's starting to feel like I should ratchet that back a bit on at least one of those.

Default is .1 I believe, which I admit I've never played with as the stock 'Heisig' model came with a .25 and I simply parroted that whenever I created a new deck.

While I realize it is a fairly "personal choice", I'm still curious to hear what other people are using and what they're having success with. As changing it is sort of a long term adjustment, I figure it'd be nice to crowd-source some ideas before making any real changes.

It kindof disappointed me to find the spacing was a user setting. Anki was meant to use an ultra cool long term memory prediction memory algorithm or whatnot!

What do you mean by the "Spacing Multiplier"?
I didn't find anything like that in my Anki gui.

FYI: the anki spacing algorithm is discussed a little in the Anki FAQ
http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/FrequentlyAsk...Ankiuse.3F

Actually, upon re-reading the link avparker gave, I may just be entirely off-base in the actual effect of the spacing multiplier.

But, for the curious, it's a model property. I believe the ACTUAL utility of it is just as a multiplier for the property above it (minimum spacing), when using a deck that reviews from both sides, which I admit I'm still not really familiar with. The more advanced uses of Anki are still pretty arcane for me. Much as I love the app there's a bit of a learning curve and I'm still struggling to find decent tutorials on exploiting all of it.

So, in short, initial question can probably be completely ignored, the spacing is all handled internally... This is what I get for pondering these things in the middle of the night.

But if anybody does have any complex Anki usage examples, do share. I've basically just been running a one-way deck for everything I do, again, mimicking the initial RTK deck I started with.

ninetimes Wrote:Actually, upon re-reading the link avparker gave, I may just be entirely off-base in the actual effect of the spacing multiplier.

But, for the curious, it's a model property. I believe the ACTUAL utility of it is just as a multiplier for the property above it (minimum spacing), when using a deck that reviews from both sides, which I admit I'm still not really familiar with. The more advanced uses of Anki are still pretty arcane for me. Much as I love the app there's a bit of a learning curve and I'm still struggling to find decent tutorials on exploiting all of it.

So, in short, initial question can probably be completely ignored, the spacing is all handled internally... This is what I get for pondering these things in the middle of the night.

But if anybody does have any complex Anki usage examples, do share. I've basically just been running a one-way deck for everything I do, again, mimicking the initial RTK deck I started with.

Ohhhh I think I get what it does now after reading that! You mean to say if you have a deck which goes both ways you can adjust how long it takes to show you the card in reverse after you've seen it foward?

I've kinda adjusted this manually and not through the use of any setting to cut a fair few unnecessary reviews out. I figured out that if you have cards which show you reading - listening, doing it listening - comprehension on the same day is more work than you need to do. So when learning new cards i'll do 100 of just reading + hearing the audio when I click to show the answer then the next day I do the 100 audio - comprehension cards because having studied the material the previous day im much more familiar with it which leads to a higher pass rate and less reviews on that whole side of the deck. It's working really well for me.