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Yeah I agree. Anki has a failure mode for me that I eventually accumulate > 5000 flash cards and a review session can take an hour or more. Knowing what to revi

Yeah I agree. Anki has a failure mode for me that I eventually accumulate > 5000 flash cards and a review session can take an hour or more. Knowing what to review is really difficult. I'll give Supermemo a shot, I've always heard of it as the gold standard but never tried it.

4BA9940C 4y ago
I'm familiar with that problem, and overcame it by really working at making good cards. Today, I have 6000 cards in my collection, and daily reviews take 15-20 minutes; usually 100-120 cards. (I have been using Anki for a lost time. My collection is almost 10 years old.) Granted, writing good cards is easy to say and really hard to do. Some specific pointers: - cards should take less than 10 seconds to answer - most questions should be 7 words or so - if your question has multiple clauses, split those up into separate cards - cloze deletions are great, consider multiple clozes per card - around 10% of your cards should have images - good images help a lot, mediocre images make it worse -- when in doubt, don't - Answer this Question cards should have an opposite Question for this Answer like Jeopardy
- rsanek 4y ago
  In my experience, you really only start to see these problems at the tens of thousands of flashcards level. I have ~70,000 mature flashcards and also have the growing backlog problem, even if I don't add new cards for weeks. My collection is 8 years old. I agree that making good flashcards helps alot. Another big thing is to make sure the knowledge graph is connected, eg there are no 'orphaned' individual cards / groups of cards. Those tend to suffer seriously from decay for me.
zozbot234 4y ago
> Yeah I agree. Anki has a failure mode for me that I eventually accumulate >5000 flash cards and a review session can take an hour or more. You don't really need to keep up with Anki's review sessions, even a partial session is very effective when you have lots and lots of cards. The tradeoff is that you might not actually maintain 100% recall of all items, but you'll recall most of them, and the scheduling algorithm will space out the items that you do recall even further.
examplary_cable 4y ago
I believe this will fit in here: I'm working on a program that solves this problem: we don't have mandatory daily reviews and we also have a Spaced Repetition Algorithm for reviews. Also it's much more flexible than Anki & Supermemo. So you don't have to stress over as to complete the daily grind. https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook

4BA9940C 4y ago

I'm familiar with that problem, and overcame it by really working at making good cards. Today, I have 6000 cards in my collection, and daily reviews take 15-20 minutes; usually 100-120 cards. (I have been using Anki for a lost time. My collection is almost 10 years old.) Granted, writing good cards is easy to say and really hard to do. Some specific pointers: - cards should take less than 10 seconds to answer - most questions should be 7 words or so - if your question has multiple clauses, split those up into separate cards - cloze deletions are great, consider multiple clozes per card - around 10% of your cards should have images - good images help a lot, mediocre images make it worse -- when in doubt, don't - Answer this Question cards should have an opposite Question for this Answer like Jeopardy

rsanek 4y ago
In my experience, you really only start to see these problems at the tens of thousands of flashcards level. I have ~70,000 mature flashcards and also have the growing backlog problem, even if I don't add new cards for weeks. My collection is 8 years old. I agree that making good flashcards helps alot. Another big thing is to make sure the knowledge graph is connected, eg there are no 'orphaned' individual cards / groups of cards. Those tend to suffer seriously from decay for me.

zozbot234 4y ago

> Yeah I agree. Anki has a failure mode for me that I eventually accumulate >5000 flash cards and a review session can take an hour or more. You don't really need to keep up with Anki's review sessions, even a partial session is very effective when you have lots and lots of cards. The tradeoff is that you might not actually maintain 100% recall of all items, but you'll recall most of them, and the scheduling algorithm will space out the items that you do recall even further.

examplary_cable 4y ago

I believe this will fit in here: I'm working on a program that solves this problem: we don't have mandatory daily reviews and we also have a Spaced Repetition Algorithm for reviews. Also it's much more flexible than Anki & Supermemo. So you don't have to stress over as to complete the daily grind. https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook