Had to quit RTK at like kanji 1015 like 4 months ago because of college and haven't reviewed ever since.
What should I do? Start all over?
I had been reading some japanese though and in doing so learning quite a few onyomis and kunyomis and vocab. Also I've been asisting to my japanese classes, have a japanese exam on saturday.

Log into RevTK.
Remove all flashcards.
Add 1015 flashcards.

Review them VERY quickly (10 seconds max per card).
If they don't IMMEDIATELY pop into your head, fail the card (i.e. click "No").
DON'T make any new stories (takes too much time), just review.

If they are REALLY SIMPLE kanji (like "one", "two", "three", "person", "tree",etc),
delete the card (click on the wrench icon in the upper right of the review card and select "Delete flashcard").

Do this until you're done with your 1015 card deck.
You're now left with the cards that you really need to review.

I suggest doing this during any spare time (since it's speed reviewing, you can do
20 cards in 5 minutes or so) in short spurts. 5 minutes here. 10 minutes there.

I usually just "go by feeling". When I feel like I don't want to review, I stop IMMEDIATELY (otherwise, I'd be wasting time) and do something else. As soon as I feel like reviewing, I do it IMMEDIATELY without any thought (otherwise, I'd be wasting time).

If you can get to the point where starting and stopping your reviews is quick and automatic (i.e. a "just do it" attitude without thinking about the other things you have to do), you're good to go.

When you're done reviewing those 1015 cards, you can move on...... :-)

chamcham Wrote:Log into RevTK.
Remove all flashcards.
Add 1015 flashcards.

Review them VERY quickly (10 seconds max per card).
...

IMO, resetting the cards and then speed reviewing them is the worst thing you can do. Either start over and re-add the cards at a reasonable pace (which helps by going through the kanji in RTK order again), or speed review the cards from where they are now (which helps by keeping remembered kanji at a long interval).

Yeah I think there is no reason to delete the cards if you're gonna review them anyway.

1015 Expired, so? Buckle up! Take a deep breath and start doing it. I haven't reviewed since 6-7 months because of my circumstances... I have 2042 expired. Next week I'm going to open the deck and start doing it. Perhaps Anki is not too accomplished in this respect, as it does not measure when did you do your last review - but it could be an important factor, and I think it could be easily done as a plug-in. Still, my intuition tells me just start doing it and things will fall to their right place. What I've learned over the last few weeks is that we (as the modern - western society) tend to overthink everything. Don't think, just do it! My 2 cents.

Raschaverak Wrote:Perhaps Anki is not too accomplished in this respect, as it does not measure when did you do your last review - but it could be an important factor, and I think it could be easily done as a plug-in.

Actually Anki does record this information. I don't know if it has an option to review cards based on when you last saw them, but if it douesn't you can open the deck management/card search window and suspend everything, then sort by last review and unsuspend them in chunks. I'm pretty sure this doesn't affect their intervals.

Anki lets you review in random order, order due, smallest interval first, or largest interval first. And as Splatted said, you can force a different order by unsuspending cards in batches.

Anki takes into account how overdue a card is when you review it. If you remember an overdue card, it adds a bonus to the interval.

I've been through this. In the end, I just start studying, and the pile goes away after a while. If you can spend a bit more time per day for a bit, then it goes away faster.

I have about half that, 600. I feel your pain. Not nearly as bad as 1015 though! But we'll get them done. Just do SOMETHING, don't worry too much about "how" otherwise you are just wasting time :-). Breaking it into small chunks definitely helps!

Don't feel so bad, I have over 6000 expired cards just on my vocab deck (out of 18,000).
Would take a good 10 hours or so to do if I could be bothered

Yeah, I have more than 1,800 expired on this site. Oh well. I've come back from 1,500 or so before with Heisig, and a good 3,000 or so with vocab. Just takes a lot of time and is no fun.

As long as your knowledge (kanji, vocab whatever) is on an upward trajectory, it really doesn't matter if a 1000 or more cards of something you once studied lie dormant in a deck somewhere. The information is still in your head somewhere and can be refined and reinforced by actual use. I apparently have 2700ish expired cards on this site but I have no intention of clearing them.

Reopening the thread...
I have finished rtk1 couple years ago and wanted to start reviewing all kanji again in Heisig order. However, I want to keep all my stories and just reset the srs to beginning. How can I accomplish this?
Thanks.

Manage->Remove all cards
Manage->Add all cards

Your stories will not be erased.

awesome. Thanks!