Many more reviews than expected with new card settings

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@aoanla

There can’t be that many people who are using Anki for sessions that are long enough to allow all new cards a proper 1m → 10m → ?? progression.

Here it from the main dev (I suggested setting this to 0 before):

@dae

The default learn ahead limit is set to 20 minutes, so that the default learning steps fall within the limit. To do otherwise would mean an out-of-box experience where the user studies a few cards, and is then told they need to wait up to 10 minutes before proceeding. Back when that’s how Anki behaved, it was a frequent pain point.

So yeah…

@aoanla

The thing is, again, some of the hard cards are also pretty useful and important cards!

Doesn’t matter. Suspend them. Or come with a mnemonic if that works for you.

@aoanla

I have so many of them that I’m going to basically be throwing away 50% of the cards I’m trying to learn each day…

I don’t think you should suspend new cards like that, new cards do take more time and effort than others but sometimes they get pretty easier later on.

@aoanla

Yesterday I was so down about the entire thing that I quit Anki after only about 24 minutes and couldn’t bring myself to do anything else in the language at all

Anki clearly isn’t for everyone. If you feel it doesn’t work for you, you can try with other methods. You can find a lot of different methods online. Find one that suits you. And of course, you probably have some idea what works for you or what doesn’t right?

By the way, here’s a nice guide for language learning that shows the way (and it talks about Anki too): Simplified Roadmaps Archive - Refold