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 ?