yes that is what i did for my school exam. As I treat them as short term memory and will not be used in the future.
But now I am studying for a relatively important and longer period form of exam, which i cannot solely rely on short term memory like i used to do, I adopt to the algorithm which most people use primitively.
I dont think those statistics are that relevant, as they are the result of my past misusage of it.
I think I described above why this parameter is the main error:
“Learning steps: 10m”
By default, Anki is set to 1 minute and 10 minutes, meaning you must confirm your knowledge in 10 minutes. If you can’t, it means you didn’t memorize the card 10 minutes ago. And this is very important. And this is the bare minimum for memorization. Just like in real life, if you’re learning three sentences, you should sit down, pick up a pen, and write those three sentences down by hand. This guarantees you’ve memorized them. And if you’re learning words, you take 10 words, study them, and then write them down by hand and check that you can write them down. This guarantees you’ve memorized them. And Anki only works after you’ve studied, not just skimmed them once on the first day. Anki helps you remember the information on subsequent days and recall it promptly.
I’ll add a tip on how to use Anki correctly: you’ve studied the information in class or at a lecture, in the auditorium, and you’ve already reviewed it several times, and you just need to remember it the next day. Then, you create your own flashcard, with the necessary definition, and share it with everyone else on the page. Then, when you open the card once, you’ll already remember everything, and you only need to review it once. However, if you’re not using your own flashcards, you should first study the textbook on the topic, rather than hoping that you’ll always remember everything from one review; not everyone has a photographic memory.
I understand you now. But most of the cards I make is some hard facts that does not need that much understanding. And for facts like this require multiple times of retrieval to make sure i remember most of it. If i continue to set my parameter as 10m, i dont think it will be that big of a problem to review it tomorrow instead of reviewing two times in a single day. At least in term of workload and reviewing the same card twice in a day makes me deeply unmotivated. I dont know it is my problem or not. But currently it works with 10m interval, not to mention i have so many cards to review in a day. Just that for my own personal workflow it does work well. And if i answer a question wrongly it will directly go back to due, which gaurantee that ive at least get it correct for one time.
but again, I completely agree that your approach is a lot more optimal, but in praticality i just cant follow that workflow. I dont want to dedicate that much time into studying and i think thats the reason I am not top of my class, but I am prettry sure that the time investment to reward ratio of my studying is very high (by cramming before exam). It is personal choice for me and i know that is not optimal in any regard Again, thank you for your reply and it is a pleasure listening to you sharing.