On review sibling burying

Anki Scheduling
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Hi everyone,
I recently realized that the biggest mistake so far I made using Anki was to enable the feature bury review siblings. I usually read something, make a bunch of notes out of it ( often they are notes with many related cards resulting) and then directly learn all of them on the same day. I think this is known as incremental reading.
The information on the notes is connected but knowing one card does not help knowing the other cards. But since the answer shows all information I decided to hide review siblings.

Unfortunately I realized this had a terrible effect on my learning progress because cards with a low Intervall got buried over and over because of already reviewed cards and often showed up at a really low retrievability score.

I think the way this feature currently works is not optimal and it would make more sense to only bury mature review siblings or I think the optimum would be to improve the scheduling so they are never scheduled together in the first place.

I think a simple solution would be to check for a sibling hit during the rescheduling process and if there is one maybe schedule it to be intervall_of_the_sibling - 1 day.

I also saw in the FSRS helper there is a disperse siblings feature, I had a look at the code+doc but I really couldn’t figure out how it works.

Generally I think features like this would be better of preponing than postponing and that it should not prevent reviews that if not done cause retrievability to be lower during review, it would be better to cause some to be higher to achieve this. And if there is no other option show the cards on the same day.

What do you think ?

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I think your own description has the answer; sibling burying does not make sense in that deck so it would better to be turned off.

The information on the notes is connected but knowing one card does not help knowing the other cards. But since the answer shows all information I decided to hide review siblings.

Sounds like, the optimal thing would’ve been to edit the cards so all the information isn’t shown in the answer and then disable sibling burying.

My own thoughts on sibling burying/dispersing:

  • It depends so much on what the siblings are exactly. How much does reviewing one help in remembering the other? It’s probably always unique. The ideal solution might be some super-customizeable complex thing where you can define the dispersal distance.
  • Being able to advance siblings instead of postponing is basically dispersing; it needs to be done for groups of cards scheduled into the future, since you can’t advance cards already due today of course.
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For some information that would indeed be possible, for some it must also be shown in the question unfortunately.

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I guess I will give the feature a try then, thanks for the information.

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Just to put the information out there

Dispersing siblings is more aggressive. If enabling bury review siblings could mess up your progress, it will, too.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/759844606