On Tuesday 30 June 2009 02:08:54 am Oisin Mac Fhearai wrote: > 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.
Interesting observation, thanks! It's easy to add a warning + explanation when you reach e.g. 10 new learned cards. I'd prefer this more gentle approach as opposed to a hard limit where you forbid people to go on. On a more personal note, I've been using (the predecessor of) Mnemosyne since 2003, learning roughly 5 cards a day. I'm now at 175 scheduled cards a day on average, and 8500 cards in my database. There is still plenty of stuff I want to learn, and if I keep up what I think is this steady, gently pace, I could be at 350 reps daily in 5 more years... This very long term aspect is definitely something that needs thinking about, either by making a more thorough analysis of the logs and tweaking the algorithm, or by pruning the cards in my database. Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
