Hi. This question results from my first post here : ANK FORUMS (Anki/Scheduling): how can i force more reviews during the holidays to clear up my anki for the next school year/63862. I will try and compile the questionning we had there but feel free to read it too if you want a broader understanding of the question/issue.
So : First and foremost, i’m french, so please be forgiving of my typing mistakes (and i admit i am very not proud of the formulation of my topic, but couldn’t bother to do better).
I’m currently studying engineering, and have come to find myself with a lot of free time during those holidays. So i intended to try and review as much cards as possible to minimize the amount of this year’s cards i will face next year, in order to relieve me of as much workload as possible to start the year on a nice foot.
In brief (look at my first post), i’m trying to increase current reviews/day to decrease reviews/day in 2 months. I tried doing that using the “reschedule all” function but failed.
So it was suggested to me to tweak retention back and forth : “Alternatively, make a backup first. Then enable “Reschedule cards on change” and increase your desired retention to 99%. You’ll probably see a lot of new reviews. Also, you’ll see cards more often; effectively making reviewing “faster”. Once you’re satisfied with your true retention, you can lower the desired retention back.”
And i was planning to use this along with the “custom study ahead” function just after driving back the retention in order to give back a large intervall to most of the cards before the school year.
In details, i planned to do something like this : " For instance if i put my desired retention at 99% until satisfactory results, and then tweak it back to my currents number (87-90% depending on presets) something like two weeks before the start of the school year. Then i could use, as you suggested, use the custom study ahead to clear up my first two weeks and it would be ideal !" (copied from other post)
But i was wondering : will, by doing so, my intervals be longer than if i kept everything at my currents number ? Or will the impact be solely on my knowledge of the cards ? Because if it does cause longer intervals, it is something i strive to do, but if it isn’t, this is not the right method for me. So I’m asking the FSRS experts to enlighten me on the effects doing what i suggested would actually have and I pray it does what i want, because (other post) there doesn’t seem to exist another method to do that. Additionally is it a good idea to use “study in advance” as i suggested, or will just using the “reschedule all cards” function after rediminushing retention do the job ?
Thanks in advance, sorry for the lenght.