I'm on holiday and have time on my hands (ideal hands and new years resolutions... bad mix maybe.)

So... I've been working with the interval settings of my Anki deck for some time now and I've found that setting my hard rate to the below really seems to work for me. I was wondering about others experience and tweaks they've made.


The basis of my settings is they mimic my 90% point - which for me is quite low, maybe?

Anyway, if I bring my hard interval up my rep time goes way, way up (noticably) - for instance, at 1.0 I'm getting frustrated at Anki with my 45 minutes of deck time for 200+ items - maybe 80% failure rate -, but at .35-.75 my anger resides and my time hits 30 minutes for the same reviews and 90+%.

I'm also experimenting with my upper two intervals, as I'm finding it's just too low.

P.s., Obviously this isn't a technical thread. I'm just interested in others settings.

Edit: I delete a fair amount as well. No mountains here, thank you!

I don't think it's that important as long as you're consistent, maintaining a pace you're comfortable with, and the reviews are spaced further apart each respective successful review per your self-grading. I'd recommend against excessive tinkering with and getting too obsessed with the underlying numerical mechanics, your brain/life isn't something that's going to fit into the algorithm in that way. ;p

I set initial hard to .75-.99 and always first study and grade new cards as hard, presumably to make sure they come up within 24 hours; next is 3-5, then 7-9, no idea whether those are defaults. At least that's for one deck, I don't usually bother tinkering with decks anymore per my above advice.

This is something I've wondered about for a while, thanks for starting a thread! I've been a bit timid to twiddle with the settings because I have a multi-thousand card deck now and though some realities of long reviews have been frustrating the defaults are more or less working sufficiently.

When I was cramming grammar for the JLPT I followed the suggestions by vix in this post:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5839

The suggested alterations there were good but had a lot of overhead price with all the deck management.

My general feeling at this point is if my reviews were made slightly more frequent right at the beginning then I'd be set, but an alternate thought I've had and discussed with some other friends is why bother tweaking these settings when you could just add another sentence with a particularly tricky vocab word? You get another sentence, maybe another vocab word that isn't so hard, more context and you automatically increase the frequency of testing that word by having multiple cards instead of increasing your reviews for all cards (including the cards that are really easy -- something that depends on each individual)?

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Isn't a failure multiplier of 0.00 really harsh? Make it 0.01 at the very least. This way a card with a 300 day interval will become 3 days on a fail.

As I usually "study" with Anki, in that I'm learning the card when it comes up I have that show up again in about 15 minutes. That's ".01 days" for hard (the default or space bar difficulty for new cards).

For missed cards, on new it's still set to 10 minutes, but I set missed mature cards to 12 hours (720 minutes). Reason being I like the 1 day cool down time to see if I really did forget that card.

Leech I set to 6, but what I do with leeches depends on the deck.