(meta: this is a short, informal set of notes i sent to some folks privately, then realized some people on LW might be interested. it probably won’t make sense to people who haven’t seriously used Anki before.)
sept 28
have people experimented with using learning or relearning steps of 11m ⇐ x ⇐ 23h ?
just started trying out doing a 30m and 2h learning & relearning step, seems like it solves mitigates this problem that nate meyvis raised
oct 1
reporting back after a few days: making cards have learning steps for 11m ⇐ x ⇐ 23h makes it feel more like i’m scrolling twitter (~much longer loop, i can check it many times a day and see new content) vs a task (one concrete thing, need to do it every day). it then feels much more fun/less like a chore, which was a surprising output.
obv very tentative given short timescales. will send more updates as i go.
oct 9
reporting back after ~1.5 weeks: pretty much the same thing. i like it!
i think the biggest difference this has caused is that i feel much more incentivized to do my cards early in the day, because i know that i’ll get a bit more practice on those cards that i messed up later in the day — but only if i start them sufficiently early. the internal feeling is “ooh, i should do any amount of cards now rather than in a couple hours, so that i can do the next set of reviews later.”
empirically: i previously would sometimes make sure to finish my cards at the end of the day. for the last 1.5w or so, i have for many (~1/2) days cleared all of my cards by the early afternoon, then again by the early evening, then once more (if i had particularly difficult or a large number of new cards) by the time i go to sleep.
…which has consequently significantly increased my ability to actually clear the cards, which is now making me a bit more confident that i can add more total cards to my review queue.
if i’m still doing this in 6weeks or smth, i’ll plan to write out something slightly more detailed and well-written. if not, i’ll write out something of roughly this length and quality, and explain why i stopped doing it.
(meta: this is a short, informal set of notes i sent to some folks privately, then realized some people on LW might be interested. it probably won’t make sense to people who haven’t seriously used Anki before.)
sept 28
have people experimented with using learning or relearning steps of 11m ⇐ x ⇐ 23h ?
just started trying out doing a 30m and 2h learning & relearning step, seems like it
solvesmitigates this problem that nate meyvis raisedoct 1
reporting back after a few days: making cards have learning steps for 11m ⇐ x ⇐ 23h makes it feel more like i’m scrolling twitter (~much longer loop, i can check it many times a day and see new content) vs a task (one concrete thing, need to do it every day). it then feels much more fun/less like a chore, which was a surprising output.
obv very tentative given short timescales. will send more updates as i go.
oct 9
reporting back after ~1.5 weeks: pretty much the same thing. i like it!
i think the biggest difference this has caused is that i feel much more incentivized to do my cards early in the day, because i know that i’ll get a bit more practice on those cards that i messed up later in the day — but only if i start them sufficiently early. the internal feeling is “ooh, i should do any amount of cards now rather than in a couple hours, so that i can do the next set of reviews later.”
empirically: i previously would sometimes make sure to finish my cards at the end of the day. for the last 1.5w or so, i have for many (~1/2) days cleared all of my cards by the early afternoon, then again by the early evening, then once more (if i had particularly difficult or a large number of new cards) by the time i go to sleep.
…which has consequently significantly increased my ability to actually clear the cards, which is now making me a bit more confident that i can add more total cards to my review queue.
if i’m still doing this in 6weeks or smth, i’ll plan to write out something slightly more detailed and well-written. if not, i’ll write out something of roughly this length and quality, and explain why i stopped doing it.
see you then!