Recently my main desktop computer died on me and due to this I've been behind on my reps a lot. I'm using another persons laptop at the moment, so I can't be on here for long as I used to( Used to use my desktop a lot for school work,applying,researching,learnig japanese). But now due to this problem, I'm deciding to start new again for all my decks. But this time around, I can easily set a limit of how much I add and never go over it.

Anyone got any good suggestions?. I've been reading up on anki that starting from scratch is a bad thing

Thanks in advance, this forum has helped me a lot

I'm confused at why you would want to start again.

Did you not have backups through anki.ichi2.net?

It's easy to set up these backups. I recommend them for all Anki users.

Best suggestion: Keep backups. Heck, get yourself a dropbox and keep everything you need in there.

But from what you can do now: I'm pretty sure you can add cards with larger initial delays, so that they are effectively "mature" cards. So that could help a bit...?

Or how about...since you already "know" everything that was in your previous decks, just make new decks and add like normal? The facts that are cemented in your head will be in there, and the ones that weren't so much you'll forget, and come across them again --> add them to the deck like normal.

NoSleepTilFluent Wrote:I'm confused at why you would want to start again.

not really starting again, just doing what I normal do but scrapping my other decks and starting fresh. Since my reps are crazy now

Asriel Wrote:Best suggestion: Keep backups. Heck, get yourself a dropbox and keep everything you need in there.

But from what you can do now: I'm pretty sure you can add cards with larger initial delays, so that they are effectively "mature" cards. So that could help a bit...?

Or how about...since you already "know" everything that was in your previous decks, just make new decks and add like normal? The facts that are cemented in your head will be in there, and the ones that weren't so much you'll forget, and come across them again --> add them to the deck like normal.

Yea I do have backups. I always keep them on my usb just in-case my comptuer goes nuts on me, which it did lol. What I could do is, for all the easier cards I already know, just rate them easy until they get mature and worry about them at that time. But yea sounds good to me

jcdietz03 Wrote:Did you not have backups through anki.ichi2.net?

It's easy to set up these backups. I recommend them for all Anki users.

Yea I do, my reviews have just been pilling up so much, that I will start new. I'm not the type of person who doesn't do his reps, it's just due to my computer dying on me that It's hard to maintain. So I'm going to start fresh

just signed up for dropbox. Sweet more backups. I can now have 3 back-ups. 1 via a usb, 1 via anki and 1 via dropbox

Yeah, dropbox is awesome because you just move it into your folder, and then any other computer you have it installed on automatically gets updated. It's like you don't even have to think about updating it if you just store things in there!

Seriously, I'm using it for some group projects in class, and it's the awesomest thing ever.

I routinely throw out all my decks and start over. The second reviews pile up high, I fall behind, or get bored, out they all go.

It works pretty well, actually.

Ryuujin27 Wrote:I routinely throw out all my decks and start over. The second reviews pile up high, I fall behind, or get bored, out they all go.

It works pretty well, actually.

it's probably because you keep coming back. I have changed my decks a lot in the past. It really starts to change once you get really deep into japanese. You know how things work and what doesn't

I've managed to keep the same deck going since 8/08. Twice I've fallen *really* far behind. (I just recently came back from 3000 in the hole. Miss a week or two, and SUFFER.) I forced myself to make up the deficit. Wasn't fun, but I'm glad I did.

What I've noticed that works for me the best is getting into a groove of adding new cards. It's actually harder for me to keep up a high review pace if I'm trying to make up a big deficit than if I'm trying to keep up with a ton of new cards I'm adding. I guess it's that mental wall of, "Ugh, this is like weeding the garden," versus, "Hey, I'm planting new seeds!"

I think the main things that have kept me from wiping and starting over are the stats: 65000+ reviews since the stats got reset last about a year and a half ago, around 13100 cards in the deck, and I've got some cards pushed out past 7 years already before I'll see them again. That, and I'm coming up on 3 years since I started on it.

I'd hate to mess with a streak.

The scary part is that I have no idea if it's helping me. There's no way to measure it. I suppose so?

Once when I got really behind in Anki I dealt with it by resetting part of my deck. I opened the card browser and sorted by interval. All the well known cards with long intervals I left alone. All less well known, I either set to new or artificially spread over the next few weeks.
However, I recently discovered this tool - a plugin called cheat.py
http://groups.google.com/group/ankisrs-u...fe0d76bef9
Its approach seems preferable to the shared plugin - postpone reviews.
I like Anki a great deal, but there have also been times when I consider it a form of slavery. I know I could just ignore the fact that I have 700 cards due and do a few each day, but somehow it does bug me. So in future, when I have my really busy work day and don't get my anki done, Instead of pushing myself, ( I mean why can't I have a 6 day per week Anki routine, even if its suboptimal, it still works for me), what I will do is select my next 1 or 2 or 3 weeks of cards (or perhaps, of these, only those with intervals of less than, say, x days, still experimenting with this) and push them all back by exactly one day, and then carry on as normal.
I am not clear in my own mind, on the best way to use it if I am, for example, a month or 2 behind, but it is a useful tool.

ta, read this thread:

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=4602

Assuming you're getting enough immersion from reading, you could just drop sentences and go vocab only. so much quicker and easier. Spend the time you save doing more reading and listening.

For production, I'd keep doing one writing deck so your kanji skills don't waste away. Maybe just keep a heisig deck, and actually practise japanese output via penpals and/or a lang-8 diary. You're definitely at the stage where you shouldn't need artificial output cards.

aphasiac Wrote:ta, read this thread:

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=4602

Assuming you're getting enough immersion from reading, you could just drop sentences and go vocab only. so much quicker and easier. Spend the time you save doing more reading and listening.

For production, I'd keep doing one writing deck so your kanji skills don't waste away. Maybe just keep a heisig deck, and actually practise japanese output via penpals and/or a lang-8 diary. You're definitely at the stage where you shouldn't need artificial output cards.

hmm I'm still thinking of maintaing a sentence deck but this time around, go at a super-slow pace. So I won't feel it at all. 20 per day. As for writing, yea I'll keep up the heisig cards+add a few cards in there as well. I'm thinking of experimenting around with output type cards. There are a lot of times where I can use stuff that where said from movies,etc and add them in there with audio/practice. But outside of that, I just copy from what I listen to.

rachels Wrote:Once when I got really behind in Anki I dealt with it by resetting part of my deck. I opened the card browser and sorted by interval. All the well known cards with long intervals I left alone. All less well known, I either set to new or artificially spread over the next few weeks.
However, I recently discovered this tool - a plugin called cheat.py
http://groups.google.com/group/ankisrs-u...fe0d76bef9
Its approach seems preferable to the shared plugin - postpone reviews.
I like Anki a great deal, but there have also been times when I consider it a form of slavery. I know I could just ignore the fact that I have 700 cards due and do a few each day, but somehow it does bug me. So in future, when I have my really busy work day and don't get my anki done, Instead of pushing myself, ( I mean why can't I have a 6 day per week Anki routine, even if its suboptimal, it still works for me), what I will do is select my next 1 or 2 or 3 weeks of cards (or perhaps, of these, only those with intervals of less than, say, x days, still experimenting with this) and push them all back by exactly one day, and then carry on as normal.
I am not clear in my own mind, on the best way to use it if I am, for example, a month or 2 behind, but it is a useful tool.

I hate it when I gety behind in my reps. But it's type me some good things, add fun material/at a slow pace so one can maintain for the long-term, rather than the short-term. The max I'll do daily is 20-30 now. In a few months I'll be back to big numbers(few thousands I guess)

I decided to start everything again but I'm not going to delete my past decks. Since I collected useful cards throughout last year. So I can keep some things(all those names I collected/want to know.). I think my upper-limit is 20-40 now. I only want to add between those numbers now.

I only do sentences when necessary, if I need it to see how the word is used, otherwise I just add vocab cards these days, works just as well.

I haven't read all of the posts so maybe i'm missing something, but if your stack of due cards is huge, there's a trick i sometimes do. In the anki browser, set the search to "is:due", then just reset those cards. It's not a great solution but it's better than just resetting the whole deck, including all the cards that aren't even due yet. A more advanced version is to combine that with what rachels said and only reset the due cards that are below a certain interval. That lets you pretty easily kill all the cards that were going to be painful to review.

thecite Wrote:I only do sentences when necessary, if I need it to see how the word is used, otherwise I just add vocab cards these days, works just as well.

I'm going to go at a slower pace, so it's all good in the long-run. 10-20 isn't much(compared to what I used to do).

hokaidogirl Wrote:Aside from the fact that I need to finish my study this year for my contrastive analysis for this Language, I kind of feel the itch to study this Kanji because my cousin in Hokaido needs a little help for this. I am a starter....and you are on your restarting mode.

Don't quite get what your saying here...
You want to know how to study kanji well? Is that what your asking? If it is, then I'd suggest anki for learning anything. http://ankisrs.net/

There are a lot of different ways to study kanji, which have been posted on this forum. Just need to find it first

zigmonty Wrote:I haven't read all of the posts so maybe i'm missing something, but if your stack of due cards is huge, there's a trick i sometimes do. In the anki browser, set the search to "is:due", then just reset those cards. It's not a great solution but it's better than just resetting the whole deck, including all the cards that aren't even due yet. A more advanced version is to combine that with what rachels said and only reset the due cards that are below a certain interval. That lets you pretty easily kill all the cards that were going to be painful to review.

Well I'm starting from fresh but I still kept some good cards that I collected in my past decks/I imported them into my vocab deck. So even though I'm starting fresh in terms of srsing, I still will eventually gain back my huge numbers in a year from now, so it's no problem for me.

I'm getting more realisitc numbers for what I want for each deck.
Ultimate goal for vocab deck is 30,000 cards\
Ultimate deck for sentence deck now is: 6000-10,000
Ultimate goal for my production deck is 10,000-20,000
Obviously going slowly now of course, so I won't burn out or get behind when something happens(like my main computer dying on me, I'm going to buy a 16-17inch laptop soon, so I can study jp anywhere I go(when at school,etc)

I've been messing around with a tablet (Motoroloa Xoom), and I have to say, doing Anki reviews with a tablet (either over the web or with AnkiDroid) feels much faster compared to using a laptop, even using a wireless controller and a laptop. Something about it being more immediate for me, I guess. Or maybe because it's new.

The downside is data entry. Android tablets kinda suck at that right now, because especially Honeycomb is still beta, and there's no one good JP keyboard to use in landscape mode.

But I managed to get in 620 reviews yesterday, and it didn't really feel like work. A lot of those were on the tablet, in web mode.