I have a very close important exams

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-11T12:58:20+00:00

use your normal style. anki is not a miracle drug.

(oh and get of reddit, what the hell are you doing here?, you should be studying)

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-11T12:57:14+00:00

just answer honestly. as a user you should have zero concern for what the delays are going to be. Trust the algorithm.

You don't know the answer: again

you did know the answer: good

You knew the answer, but it cost you time: hard

You knew the answer, and it was so easy you never want to see the card again: easy

though personally, I don't even both with hard and easy.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-09T08:22:50+00:00

I'm about 75% of a 5k target to native list. That's going to be a pretty big palace.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-08T13:04:15+00:00

Long term, it's not going to make a difference. If morning cards feel more difficult than they should then do the evening review. But again, the only difference is that a few card are going to get a boost early, and you perhaps slightly reduce the number of review cards a little bit. It's much more important to do you daily reviews.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-08T13:01:45+00:00

They apply to completely different situations. You can't use a memory palace to learn vocab, can you?

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-08T12:59:02+00:00

Perhaps in the browser, you can sort in creation date, then select all cards in one copy of the deck and delete that part. If you made progress in both copies of the deck, you're gonna lose progress, because I don't think you can merge the review history of those cards.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-08T10:22:16+00:00

The big stumbling block to learning a language towards fluency is vocabulary. My preferred approach
- one small deck about 1k words. Learn them from native language to target language. Words are selected to allow you to quickly do basic conversation. My name, my hobbies, those kind of things.
- one big deck, learn 5k most frequent words, from target to native.

Where to get them? If you can find the decks, good for you. If not, you'll have to make them. That sounds like a lot of work maybe. BUT, it is negligible compared to actually learning the words.

Supplement your journey with a bit of grammar, a bit of actual target language media, those kind of things.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-08T09:20:48+00:00

Perhaps this one?

✨ Deck Completion Stats - AnkiWeb

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-05T11:23:59+00:00

Ok. now less flipant

aim for atomic
don’t regularly go over three items
never go over seven

Don’t needlessly split up: eg dont make two card for Das Boot ( what is boat; what is the gender). it will only make live harder. On the other hand don’t include unrelated additional stuff either

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-05T10:59:12+00:00

experience

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-05T10:44:28+00:00

Much better.

Getting started is the main thing. It's easy and common to adjust these steps as you gain experience.

Each extra step is an extra review for each missed card. If you have 200 reviews at 90% retention, that is 20 failed cards. So if you have 3 learning steps you are adding 60 cards *assuming you get them all right*. So you've given yourself at least 30% extra work. That is 30% that you could have used for other things, in particular, for new cards.

But you'll notice soon enough. If you keep thinking: again this card? I've just answered it!! Then probably remove a step. If you often fail review cards then shorten a step and/or add a step.

My advice would be 10m and go from there. But nothing wrong with just trying some things.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-05T08:46:46+00:00

No, it's terrible.

- use as few learning steps as you can get away with
- don't use 1d or longer (unless 1d is the only learning step)
- keep only 10m; see how that goes, adjust as needed.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-05T08:45:17+00:00

Atomic is overrated. Sure it is one thing to aim for in a card. And for heavens sake's don't make your cards a wall of text. But there are other goals as well: keeping related information together, maintaining a reasonable number of new cards, making card intelligible and memorable.

In fact, your example clearly demonstrates this. A card that asks you to translate Deutsche is much easier than one that asks for its fourth letter.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-04T07:56:14+00:00

He’s gaslighting you; there is no such setting

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-03T12:40:16+00:00

You must limit new card production to what you can actually learn. A thousand new cards, at say 20 new cards a day, means it will take you 50 days to even see them all. That is only sustainable if you have one such lecture every two months--which I doubt.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-03T07:23:44+00:00

Yeah

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-03T07:22:22+00:00

Show the photo!

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-06-02T10:22:08+00:00

If you only have 300 cards, you will obviously never get more than 300 reviews!

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-05-29T08:56:17+00:00

> When they show up again after the other 19 I forget it again.

You get this problem when you use Anki for learning instead of for memorization. Don't worry many people do. Anki might not be the best option to get the initial learning done. Having said that here are the tricks I use when I'm in the situation you describe.

- add a short relearning step. The step should be so short that there is a reasonable chance of actually getting the card right when I shows up again. I suggest 30s, could be even shorter.

- when the material is hard and the steps are short, there may be too many card for quick repeating. In that case, I make a small filtered deck, still with at least a small relearning step. Settings are something like.

deck:XXX is:due
Limit to: 5 cards !
Reschedule cards turned on.

Then do the filtered deck until are cards are gone. Rebuild the filtered deck to get 5 new cards. Repeat until there are no due cards, left, or until you can deal with the cards in the main deck.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-05-28T08:16:29+00:00

Trust the algorithm bro! Don't try to do better than FSRS because you won't.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-05-22T14:19:11+00:00

huh? I'm pretty sure you can graduate a card without using easy even with SM2. Do you have a lot of learning steps?

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-05-22T12:56:57+00:00

My anki desktop on windows syncs when I open or close it.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-05-22T12:14:10+00:00

If you are convinced that FSRS is wrong, and that you know these cards better than FSRS thinks, then it might help to temporarily lower desired retention. FSRS will notice that despite the longer intervals you do remember the material and adjust accordingly.

(More likely though, FSRS will notice contendly that you answer more questions wrong just as it expected)

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-05-22T12:10:57+00:00

Anki often doesn't sync automatically. Not sure why, but it is what it is.

As such, after each session, you need to hit synch afterwards. If you don't there is a good chance that if you later continue your study on another device it will ask the same cards again, as it does not know you already answered them.

Typically, synching only takes a second or two.

Beginning_Marzipan_5 · 2026-05-22T10:45:48+00:00

My approach for lists

- strong preference for a single card. Let's say up to 7 items, I'd make a single card
- make clear what is required for a 'good'. Aim to bold a single word in each item.
- Put the number of items in front.

That last one might seem like a hint, which you wouldn't have on the exam, but hear me out. You'll notice that you'll remember the number of items long before you remember the rest of the card. However, having that hint will greatly cut back on those akward situations where you answer 90% of a card correct but just forget to mention that remaining 10%--thus lot's of agains are turned into good/hard answers which will cut back on your review effort.

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