a very simple question, how do you treat memory lapses ?
you know you know the answer, you’ve been working on this note for months or years with a perfect streak of right answers and all of a sudden, blackout !
what I’m usually doing when this happens is I hit “wrong” and then I hit “easy” on the next review but sometimes, and I don’t have a good reason for that, I hit “hard” instead on the first reviews. is there a recommended strategy in these cases ?
thank you !!
How to use answer buttons: Studying - Anki Manual.
The only rule I give you for answer button is to always be honest.
Here is a nice read on what people generally do with leeches: Leeches - Anki Manual
TL;DR: Improve the card if it keeps getting lapsed, or suspend/delete it.
thank you. I’m not talking about leeches. I read this chapter and I’m trying to conform to all the tips given. usually, after a while, I delete the note and create another one that’s slightly different. and it does work !
I’m talking about words that are easy but won’t come out just once.
example :
question - country in the shape of a boot with Rome as a capital city, they eat a lot of pasta and they have roman ruins and even more national debt but not as much as France.
you - oh god Jesus not Spain but not too far, South of Austria, West of Croatia and Albania, Fascism, so many beautiful towns with Renaissance buildings, Marco Polo, Galileo Galilei, Giorgio Armani, Giorgia Meloni… ahhhh I pass 
friend - that was Italy, you loser. do you have Alzheimer ?
I’m sure that happens with everyone and there’s nothing I’m aware of that you can do.
(did that Italy example actually happen? lol)
One principle to keep in mind is this: answering 100% of our cards correctly is not the goal. Rather, we want to answer something like 80%–95% of our cards correctly. If 100% of our answers were correct, we would be wasting time.
So, my recommendation is: don’t be frustrated when a card lapses; just continue on happily.
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no but it happened with the word puddle (charco) in Spanish and I’m very fluent in Spanish. a similar problem happens with synonyms every once in a while.
but no big deal, I’m a little nitpicky sometimes.
It’s possible to remember something later that you couldn’t recall at one point. You could bury the card (without checking the answer) and try again the next day to see if you remember it.
This is still honest. If you actually end up remembering it, you can honestly answer good. I’m pretty sure a successful recall later will still have had the effect of strengthening the memory.
This^
I’ve recently noticed burying and trying to recall something the next day works wonders at times. I guess magical effects of sleep.
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