The card would come up, and I’d think, “I always miss I began to amass a mental collection of cards that I could remember Reviewing my least favorite cards, getting them wrong, and knowing I Spaced Repetition Collects Your Worst CardsĪnd because of the “boredom bias”, I was spending more and more time That, in time, I would adjust to this awesome new world of gradelessīut the opposite happened. But in practice, I hated getting cards wrong.Īt first, I thought this dislike was an old school hangup. Yes, in theory, itĭoesn’t matter much whether I get a card wrong, since I’ll see it Repetition ensures that you keep seeing things before you forget them.īut flashcards still feel a lot like school tests. Traditional tests are a complete failure.įlashcards are different, because you maintain knowledge. Valedictorians, forget almost everything they ever get tested on. Tests are a single snapshot of your recall at a When I started doing flashcards, I was excited about how different I’ve spent about half my life (at this point) in school. What exactly am I doing when I reviewįlashcards? What’s the “flow” that I don’t want to break by fixing
Iĭon’t want to slow down and … um … think?Īt last we poke the raw nerve. Wrestle with your tiny onscreen keyboard.Įven if you have a usable mobile keyboard, fixing a leech feels likeīreaking the flow. Memory building into the dribs and drabs of time that are otherwiseīut when you trip up on a leech, the last thing you want to do is Reviewing with AnkiDroid, or another mobile app. Isn’t that why it’s in your deck?Įither it’s important, and you need to fix it, or it’s not important,Īnd it’s been a waste of time from the start.īut fixing leeches is a pain. But is that theĪnswer? You don’t want to disappear a leech. Of course, you can set leeches to disappear faster. But when you have thousands of cards, it can take a long time “leech” feature will remove a card after you miss it a whole bunch of Pretty soon, you’re spending most of your review time precisely on theĭamien Elmes, the lead Anki developer, is aware of this problem. The more boringĪ card is for you, (unless it’s boring because it’s easy), the moreīut the whole point of spaced repetition is to focus your time on the But perhaps it could estimate,Īnd warn you if new cards today will land on a day next week that’sĪ much more difficult problem is the boredom bias. It can’t predictĮxactly how much you’ll need to review. This seems like a problem the program could address. To know: if I add 20 cards today, are they going to land on some day Math is just too complex for a normal person to do on the fly. Today, you could be creating mammoth review days down the road. Review some of those cards today, ahead of time.īut there’s a deeper problem: depending on how you add new cards If you know tomorrow’s going to be a big day, you could I wanted to get reviews done (more on that later).Īlso, Anki has a feature where you can see which days coming up willīe big days. You can also break up your reviews into several short sessions. There are several ways to deal with this.Īt a minimum, if you have a ton of cards due, don’t add any new cards Up Anki, and you have hundreds of reviews. The first problem: spaced repetition is uneven. We can work around them, but only if we step back and On reflection, I’ve realized thatįlashcards and spaced repetition have some inherent dangers andĭifficulties. Something.īut the solution isn’t that simple. Today, if I fire up Anki, I have over 2000 cards due.Īt first, I blamed myself. And after a few years, I justĬouldn’t stand the reviews anymore. How Did I Come to Hate Reviews?īut flashcards depend on daily reviews. I learned to remember thousands of things that would otherwise have Spaced repetition flashcards made my memory feel like a superpower. You can use flashcards and spaced repetition to memorize almostĪnything – so why did I come to hate my reviews? Explore the dark
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