On 29 Jun 2009, at 07:36, "David A. Harding" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:12:43PM +0900, Damien Elmes wrote: >> many people new to SRSes [...] get bogged down with a mountain of >> reviews and give up. > > I agree that many new SRS users give up and that a mountain of reviews > dispirits even long-time users, but do you have any proof that many > new > users give up *because* they had a mountain of reviews? > I can't speak for others, but I fell behind over a couple of weeks, only doing 50-100 of the ~200 reviews scheduled each day. When it got to about 1500 due cards, I finally lost any remaining motivation and stopped studying. That was about 4 months ago, and I've been using srses for over 4 years. So I would say that there is a strong chance that others, especially newbies, have fallen into the same trap. Even at 12 new cards per day, the reviews creep up to well over 100 a day within a few months, and if answering a card takes 20 seconds (eg scribbling Chinese chars on a tablet), you're talking 30-60 min sessions daily. If you take a week off, that's four hours of backlog. I'd recommend a clear limit for new cards daily as Anki does, tweaked by the user conservatively, so they don't get proportionally bogged down 6 months later and quit. When I return, I'll probably only take on 5 or 6 new cards a day to avoid burnout again. > -Dave > -- > David A. Harding Website: http://dtrt.org/ > 1 (609) 997-0765 Email: [email protected] > Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
