/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

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You getting a lot more cards a few weeks after starting is natural. Is it possible you are doing too many new cards at once right now? You can roughly estimate that 1 new card will result into 10 additional reviews per day in the long term, so many people fall into the pitfall of adding too many new cards early and then getting overwhelmed by reviews after a couple of weeks. But yeah, if you are getting a lot of cards wrong (which is naturally at the very beginning), that also ends up contributing to the amount of reviews with the (frankly, pretty bad) default Anki settings. 2.5h is definitely too much, you'll probably burn out at that rate. I think I aimed for like 1.5 when I started out and settled down to around 45-60 min in the long term.

Also, if you find yourself forgetting new cards pretty fast, you might also want to try to experiment a little with the "learning step" parameters, which will determine how many times and in which interval you see brand new cards before they are considered "known". My personal recommendation is something like "1m 5m 10m 1h" so you see it a couple of times in the beginning, and then an hour later to see if you can still remember it. Some people use less short steps and more long ones, but you'll need to figure out what works best for you.

As for FSRS, you set a "target retention rate" (should be around 80-85% for purposes of language learning) and it figures out from your past review behavior when to serve cards back to you and it can even recalculate and improve itself on the fly if you click on "optimize" once in a while. It's a bit of a black box compared to the old algorithm because it's way more complex, but it supposedly should reduce the amount of reviews you have to do and raise your retention rate in the long run by serving you cards more efficiently. I haven't been using it long enough to have a definite opinion on the matter but supposedly it's worth switching over.

Also, I can't speak for everyone else, but I don't mind the questions and am always happy to help since we are just bumping the thread with images most of the time anyway and this might be helpful for others that want to learn as well.