I just set up Task Scheduler in Windows to start Anki on the hour every hour. This allows me to spread my study / reviews through the day and do more, increase efficiency and automate rather than studying in a single hour block during the day.

Sorry if this is a simple / obvious thing to you guys - but it would be my tip of the day for better study!

anon6969 Wrote:I just set up Task Scheduler in Windows to start Anki on the hour every hour. This allows me to spread my study / reviews through the day and do more, increase efficiency and automate rather than studying in a single hour block during the day.

Sorry if this is a simple / obvious thing to you guys - but it would be my tip of the day for better study!

may I ask you if your are studying fulltime japanese?
how can you be online and free to study every hour of the day?

You shouldn't need to use Anki more than once a day. Any extra time you have is better spent on learning more material or doing other things in life.

I just skimmed your original message before replying, when I really should have read it properly. Sorry.

(there have been quite a few Anki users who see things like 'the next card will be due in 2 hours' and assume that time is the best, when in actual fact once a day is all that's necessary, and intervals have a 5% random factor applied anyway. I wrongly assumed your post was another case of that)

I have do anki sentence reviews in blocks several times per day. Most is four blocks, but there seems to always be the big block which is left for the evening. I found that mobile reviews of my sentences help decrease my load at night and allowed me to add more cards.

I started doing something similar. For example: say it would take me 20 minutes if I were to do all my reviews at once. I find it easier to timebox several 2 minute reviews throughout the day. I do my reps like 15-30 minutes apart. Which seems to work good for me, since I'm at my computer all day doing something like programming anyway.

If I have any failed cards, I see them more often by spacing my reps apart. I don't use the "Show failed cards early" option and my failed cards are spaced at least a half hour apart before I see them again.

I've found that I get bored if I do a bunch of reps all at once, so I refrain from doing that now.

This also seems to works good if I have a huge stack of cards to get through, normally due to neglect. ^_^;;

I have TED Notepad set to come up every 5 minutes, I put what time I choose to start my reviews on, that so I can't lie to myself when the time comes (I also use it for other stuff, like when to start homework and assignments amongst other things). So I guess it's similar to what you're doing, except more broad. >.>

I usually just review cards after caffeine intake. Caffeine dictates my entire schedule.