Anki How do you set days off?

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Reply #1 - 2013 April 05, 11:09 am
subkulture Member
Registered: 2012-12-17 Posts: 40

I'd like to set Saturday and Sunday as days off so it spreads them out over 5 days of the week. I can just not do anything on Saturday and Sunday but then I'll be hating life on Monday. Does anyone know how?

Reply #2 - 2013 April 05, 11:25 am
frony0 Member
From: London United Kingdom Registered: 2011-12-10 Posts: 257

Set a limit so you don't go crazy on monday, but by friday you've cleared the backlog

Reply #3 - 2013 April 05, 12:07 pm
subkulture Member
Registered: 2012-12-17 Posts: 40

Anki reviews reminds me of kipple from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

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Reply #4 - 2013 April 05, 8:37 pm
Cyborg Ninja Member
Registered: 2010-07-18 Posts: 41

"When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. No one can win against kipple."

I'm reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep right now.

Reply #5 - 2013 April 06, 1:27 am
Daichi Member
From: Washington Registered: 2009-02-04 Posts: 450

subkulture wrote:

Does anyone know how?

Anki isn't designed for Holidays. It assumes your going to review every single day to get the most out of it. Your brain doesn't just stop working when you go on holidays. You just can't really suspend your memory.

Assuming your using Anki 2, you can hit the custom study button and review ahead a little on Fridays after you have finished all your reps for the day. This is not a perfect solution, but it might alleviate your workload on Monday a little.

Also, as frony0 says you never have to do all your reviews, if you have some left over you can just spread those out over the course of your week.

Another thing you can do is grab the "load balancer" plugin, which will spread out your reviews a bit more evenly each day.

Reply #6 - 2013 April 06, 2:16 am
s0apgun 鬼武者 ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
From: Chicago Registered: 2011-12-24 Posts: 453 Website

Set your review limits to a certain number per day like 100. Ignore Anki on the weekends and enjoy life. People were too concerned with catching up on piled reviews that's why the review limit function was added. It won't hurt your progress much at all.

Reply #7 - 2013 April 06, 7:27 am
subkulture Member
Registered: 2012-12-17 Posts: 40

Cyborg Ninja wrote:

"When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. No one can win against kipple."

I'm reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep right now.

It's a really good book. I suppose I'll just settle for not adding new cards on Saturday and Sunday to give me motivation to make it through the week.

Reply #8 - 2013 April 07, 1:05 am
Stansfield123 Member
From: Europe Registered: 2011-04-17 Posts: 799

Anki is meant to schedule reviews for optimal times, for human beings to remember information. Scheduling it only on workdays would be a bad idea, since it would essentially be treating days as non-existent. Why treat a user like an idiot, and not tell him what he's losing?

Instead, it allows you to keep track of your daily number of reviews and the time spent reviewing, which you could use to not work on weekends, like this:
1. add new cards only from Tuesday to Thursday;
2. on Friday, use the extra time left or amount of scheduled daily reviews left to review ahead
3. on Monday, catch up with reviews; if you have any time/scheduled... left, use it to add a few new cards

This way, you are at least aware of what your days off are costing you (you've essentially halved your short term progress, for the sake of taking just two days off).

These calculations of course assume a short term schedule (a relatively small deck), and measure progress by cards added not cards learned. In the long term (with a 10.000 sentence Core deck for instance), and if you measure progress more appropriately, it's not really true that you've lost half your progress. In the long term, you lose a lot less (maybe 2.5/7th of your progress). Still not only 2/7th, because the extra time that just goes by without being used is still a factor (your weekend vacations = more time to forget things that you then have to spend extra time re-learning).

The most time efficient way to memorize a big chunk of information is to study it as much as humanly possible, every day (I would say that's six to eight hours/day, more than that and tiredness becomes a factor; a lot less if you're also working). But taking full days off is bad (costs more time in the future than you've saved in the present).

Last edited by Stansfield123 (2013 April 07, 1:12 am)

Reply #9 - 2013 April 07, 9:11 am
subkulture Member
Registered: 2012-12-17 Posts: 40

Well it's mainly to give me a break from adding new kanji every single day because I actually enjoy reviewing but adding new kanji something about it I just hate.

Reply #10 - 2013 April 07, 10:55 am
sholum Member
Registered: 2011-09-19 Posts: 265

If you just don't want to add new cards, I don't see how it would be a detriment. Unfortunately, the only way I know to stop new cards from showing is to go into the deck options and set 'new cards/day' to zero on days you don't want them.

It'd be nice if you could just set this once, but it's not that big of a deal to me, since I change the number of new cards depending on how tired I am when I get to them.

Reply #11 - 2013 April 10, 4:51 am
RawToast お巡りさん
From: UK Registered: 2012-09-03 Posts: 431 Website

sholum wrote:

If you just don't want to add new cards, I don't see how it would be a detriment. Unfortunately, the only way I know to stop new cards from showing is to go into the deck options and set 'new cards/day' to zero on days you don't want them.

Set Anki to show new cards after all reviews. Then on weekends just stop once you get to the new cards.

Reply #12 - 2013 April 10, 5:35 am
gombost Member
Registered: 2010-10-26 Posts: 69

sholum wrote:

If you just don't want to add new cards, I don't see how it would be a detriment. Unfortunately, the only way I know to stop new cards from showing is to go into the deck options and set 'new cards/day' to zero on days you don't want them.

It'd be nice if you could just set this once, but it's not that big of a deal to me, since I change the number of new cards depending on how tired I am when I get to them.

Suspend all unseen cards and unsuspend only those you want to learn.

Reply #13 - 2013 April 10, 6:05 am
sholum Member
Registered: 2011-09-19 Posts: 265

RawToast wrote:

Set Anki to show new cards after all reviews. Then on weekends just stop once you get to the new cards.

Does that transfer to AnkiDroid? I know that the option isn't on there. I didn't mention that I primarily use that, since it wasn't really relevant. I don't like to sit at my computer to do reps (I sit at a computer long enough as it is).

gombost wrote:

Suspend all unseen cards and unsuspend only those you want to learn.

Too much of a pain for something I don't care about. If a card gets in the way, I'll suspend it, but my vocabulary isn't extensive enough for me to be bothered by which card comes first. I'm still doing Core 6k (I'm at 1700 in the KO2001 optimized deck, if I remember correctly), so I figure I'll do them all, unless they really get to be a pain.

This might be good for some people, but for now, I'm perfectly fine just changing how many new cards are added per day. It's not too far out of the way in AnkiDroid.

Reply #14 - 2013 April 10, 6:51 am
RawToast お巡りさん
From: UK Registered: 2012-09-03 Posts: 431 Website

sholum wrote:

RawToast wrote:

Set Anki to show new cards after all reviews. Then on weekends just stop once you get to the new cards.

Does that transfer to AnkiDroid? I know that the option isn't on there. I didn't mention that I primarily use that, since it wasn't really relevant. I don't like to sit at my computer to do reps (I sit at a computer long enough as it is).

I think so, I don't have a desktop copy with me to check sad

gombost wrote:

Suspend all unseen cards and unsuspend only those you want to learn.

This is almost impossible in Ankidroid sad The filters don't seem to work so once you have a few decks you can no longer naviagate; in addition, you have to enable cards one by one which is sloooow...

Reply #15 - 2013 April 10, 5:47 pm
SomeCallMeChris Member
From: Massachusetts USA Registered: 2011-08-01 Posts: 787

If you can't put new cards at the end and enabling suspended cards is a pain, how about setting your new cards limit per day to zero and adding your cards as a special session?

Same effect as new-cards-at-the-end in effect, just a different way to achieve it. I don't know about anki-droid, but i know ankimobile has the same special session options as the desktop client.

Reply #16 - 2013 April 10, 10:37 pm
Daichi Member
From: Washington Registered: 2009-02-04 Posts: 450

sholum wrote:

RawToast wrote:

Set Anki to show new cards after all reviews. Then on weekends just stop once you get to the new cards.

Does that transfer to AnkiDroid? I know that the option isn't on there. I didn't mention that I primarily use that, since it wasn't really relevant. I don't like to sit at my computer to do reps (I sit at a computer long enough as it is).

It should, it's not an option available from the AnkiDroid GUI, but it does support the option. Just sync back to the desktop, switch the option, and sync again. At least it works for me.

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