Squintox
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From: Toronto, Canada
Registered: 2008-07-27
Posts: 292
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How? I haven't added new cards in ages, and everytime a day goes by where I don't add any new cards I'm depressed and mad at myself throughout the day. I get about 150-300 reviews a day. It gets to around ~130 if I'm lucky.
I'm using Anki: so I downloaded the RLC Blitzer plug-in, but I find myself progressing too slowly. I even go to bed with still a 20-40 reviews left, because I'm too tired to finish them. So later, I download the postponer plug-in so I can delay 300 reviews over 3 days, but on the third day, when all the cards that were due 3 days come up, my retention rate is very poor (~50-60%). Also in the morning, where I clear around ~80 reviews (leaving around a 100 more), I come back and it's back up to the 200's. I thought about messing with scheduler to make it a bit more easy, but I fear it will reduce my retention rate in the long-term.
Does anyone have any good advice where you can survive the massive amount of reviews and still add new cards?
EDIT: Oh and I'm currently on frame 972, and have been doing Heisig for about a month. I used to add 70-90 a day until the review blitz dropped.
Last edited by Squintox (2008 September 06, 12:36 am)
vgambit
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Registered: 2007-06-21
Posts: 221
This is why I only use this site for the kanji lookup and stories. I don't actually use the SRS portion simply because the algorithm it is based on (what was it, Leitner?) is horribly outdated. What I've noticed after using SuperMemo 2006 for a few weeks is that on any given day (for the most part), I never have to review more than what I learn in a single session.
My current system is to learn kanji either in the morning or at night and review them a good few hours later (either the evening or the next day). Sometimes that initial review is on a day when I have a bunch of other kanji, but it's never too bad.
Then again, now that I think about it, I'm only on frame 220 or so. I might not have had enough frames added to experience this "blitz" I hear so much about with Anki and RevTK.
Last edited by vgambit (2008 September 14, 8:05 pm)
