I posted about this on reddit, and was told to post again here for more help. I have been unable to reach my target retention now for many months unfortunately. I have been very good with my reviews except for a few days after taking step 1, but I can never hit the desired 90% and have been in the 85ish range for a very long time. I have been using FSRS since the github days and had excellent retention for the first few months. I’d love any suggestions. Any ideas @LMSherlock ?
So even before this point with zero backlog due (I now have a backlog because I rescheduled to 94% retention with the hope itll bring me up so I have it in a filtered deck. And even before I had the backlog I wasn’t missing days. I will say that some cards for me are really really hard and I get them wrong all the time, but it feels like the algorithm treats them like other cards and when I am relearning it shows me them at the same frequency.
I apologize I realized you wanted to see backlogs as well. I do currently have a backlog because of the rescheduling unfortunately, but I have not had one for many months prior.
I was just about to ask about this issue. Guess I don’t have to now right? In most my decks retention is around 70 percent when it should be around 85 per cent. I have been using FSRS for a couple of months now and retention is bad it seems. (bad=lower than expected)
Thank you for the confirmation! I see you updated the fsrs Rust package, and updated the Anki to use the new package. Do you happen to know the Anki release schedule and how I can start using the fix now?
Thank you so much! You’re doing absolutely amazing work and have really helped to revolutionize learning (especially for med students). I was talking with my fiancé about your work (she’s a software engineer at FAANG and follows your work from more of coding side), and we were talking about how lots of research/open source devs often struggle to get their work monetized, so I hope you find some sort of way because this technology is the future of education. Thanks again!
Jarrett has a job at Maimemo, it’s like Chinese Duolingo. He also gets donations via ko-fi, but apparently he made less money form that than his monthly salary. Than there’s also this
Unfortunately I can’t think of an easy solution. The ANKING went off and made his own company, it’s something that the team could consider in the future, even if it’s for a consultant role in med ed or even educational game development with built in space repetition (thinking of a company like levelex with some space repetition built in or something). Just a thought is all. I’d love to see the team make it big, they deserve it more than a lot of people who have made way more doing way less for humanity.
