You should have your own definition of failure/success based on your cards and your goal. Then use again if and only if you failed.
No please, that’s just gonna cause more decision paralysis. What’s the difference between that and “hard”?
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If you want the official guidelines: Studying - Anki Manual
Wait nvm, you already read the manual 
Sorry, RTFM is a second nature to me at this point
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SO you want ‘hard’ to be ‘partly wrong’. Well fsrs is flexible. But some of my cards get stuck in limbo that way-- always mostly right but never fully. EDIT: make partly wrong twice or thrice in a row count as fully wrong please.
I don’t know much about FSRS so I’m not sure if your idea of partly wrong is even possible. Your limbo problem can be easily solved by either being more strict with the way you grade your reviews, or by separating the info into multiple cards.
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I would end up spending more time on things that do not really matter. remebering 2/3 one time and entire EDIT: the next and back again but remebering enough for use.
that is more complicated than you think. If one word means two things should I have two cards for that word labeled as first and second definition and so spend time remembering which definition is more important?
There are many ways to deal with this. See this recent reddit post.
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It is possible. Internally, FSRS treats Again as 0 and the rest as 1 for calculating the loss. We could add a button that corresponds to 0.5. But frankly, I don’t think it’s a good idea. I’d rather we implement a native 2-button mode so that nobody will ever get confused about which button does what.
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The main suggestion there is sentence cloze deletion. I have sentences as a test of skill and I end up memorizing them in their entirety. This is a problem i have to deal with by dramatically increasing intervals and almost never clicking ‘again’. Edit:I like the .5 idea.
True, but I bet there would still be people asking “I remembered the word correctly but misspelled it, should I REALLY press again?”
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That is what I said!
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I read a comment on reddit about this once. I couldn’t find it so I’m going to paraphrase it from memory:
Memorizing sentences isn’t bad because that’s what we do irl. We keep reusing sentences we’ve heard from others and modify them slightly when needed. If you memorize the sentences “He eats an apple”, “I’m eating a red apple”, and “We won’t eat apples tomorrow”, then you wouldn’t be surprised when you hear “He won’t eat a red apple tomorrow”.
But you are trying to memorize the word. The other words of the cue get memorized instead of target. You would need to have many sentences for each word so the memory generalizes/transfers.
EDIT: and it just does not work:
Alguien me está _____.
Someone’s watching me.
could be mira or as it is in the actual question ‘observando’. The disambiguation often does not happen.
please set every third or second ‘hard’ in a row in one cards history to ‘again’
This isn’t really a good idea. It might make the review prediction more accurate for you, but would make it worse for most people.
Isn’t there an addon that can show you what the last grades where? You could simply press “again” yourself in case such an addon exists.
(Also, I’m not conviced there’s an issue with how FSRS handles things. You probably need to adjust your cards or the way you grade yourself; or both)
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how? Ok maybe it would. Could I get an option that i could turn on or modify?
When people talk about sentence cards, they usually mean recognition cards with the sentence in the front and the word highlighted.
That is very helpful though it distracts a bit. I will try it. EDIT: its very helpful for other tasks too!
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The css could be modified to make it less distracting. We could probably help you with that.
Though it would be better if you’d open a new post in the Anki > Card Design category – this thread isn’t really the right place.
In such a case, I would do some research to verify that both options are indeed correct. Then give it a passing grade even if my answer is not the one on the card. Alternatively, suspend the card or take the synonyms that are not supposed to be the answer and put them on the front side.
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I hope that one day there will be an AI addin that would create random sentences on the fly, with a cloze to test the grammatical point. In my view a better solution to your problem of memorizing the sentences
And personally, I’d strongly object to changing the behaviour of Hard.
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