Hi, everyone I have been using Anki for the last 3 months creating and going through a deck I created from scratch with the basic and reversed option to study German and I choose an odd scheduling and reviewing where I always see the German card first then it’s reversed no matter what as expected that resulted in me getting almost 100% of the German side (meaning I can always know the meaning of the word or the sentence presented) but as expected the English side was not strongly enforced due to the consistent order in studying and reviewing as for why I did this it’s because I wanted to limit cognitive stress so I wouldn’t procrastinate and stop studying. Now I want to reset this deck and leverage the FSRS but I have no idea what scheduling to use and what intensity (I began with 24 cards a day then increased gradually till I hit 34 cards a day) I hope someone could help me with the settings preferably someone who used Anki before to learn foreign language.
If you didn’t want the cognitive stress of learning both recognition and production, another options would have been to just suspend the English-front cards. But as long as you graded the cards honestly and accurately – regardless of the influence the 1st siblings had on the 2nd siblings – I don’t see any reason why you’d need to reset anything. You’ll be able to better “leverage” FSRS if you’ve got review history for it to use.
Get rid of whatever you were doing to strictly control the order of the cards, enable FSRS, optimize your parameters, and just keep studying.
The only thing you need to worry about is your Desired Retention. It’s fine to leave it at the default of 90% to start out. If you want to change it, you should look at Stats > True Retention to see how you’ve been doing so far. Since your old study habits probably skewed that a bit higher than normal for you with this material, you might not want to set it quite that high.
Is that 24-35 how many New cards you were introducing each day? That’s a pretty blistering pace, so you might want to consider slowing down on that.
There’s great and knowledgeable people answering questions in both places, but I’d say here you have a much lower chance of getting a couple answers in the mix that are complete nonsense. If you feel the need to post on both sites – make one a link to the other post, so that helpers don’t waste their time giving you answers in both places, and future users can find the advice you got.
All cards have been graded manually following this scheduling 0 to every 35 minutes (so about 5 revisions per day) then 1d then 2d then 3d and so on, also as per stats retention is 100% I would say that reflects from German to English pretty accurately I would say realistically 99% as for the English first side it’s hard to tell as after day 1 I always see the German side first then the English right after. So I think resetting is required or what do you think?
P.S. I could share the stats file with you if you would like.
I don’t know what you are saying with any of that.
No, I still don’t think you should reset. Nor should you set Desired Retention (DR) to 99%. As I said, your retention results are probably inflated due to how you’ve been studying.
It is inflated when it comes to the English side but when it comes to the German side not so much to be honest.
What is it that you don’t understand exactly with my scheduling explanation?
You might think that, but reverse cards have an influence on each other. By always studying them as matched pairs, you were wasting the English-front cards, but also strengthening the German-front cards a bit.
All of it. I don’t know why you’re telling me those things (was it in response to something I said?), or quite what you’re describing.
It was reply to “But as long as you graded the cards honestly and accurately” I just gave an outline of how I grade cards, manually.
Why do I want to reset the deck is because I have been studying it for the last 3 months and now most of them will be reviewed in 15 days or more, so I need to reset it to restudy it but the different schedule that improve production and not just recognition.
Any Idea how to create a duplicate deck to experiment with FSRS and scheduling?
If you are determined that resetting the cards is the right option for you, you certainly don’t need permission from any of us. I’ve given you the reasons not to do that, but if they don’t sway you, that’s okay! Go ahead and reset.
If it’s important to you to do that, you could duplicate your collection in another profile and mess around with it there. Export a COLPKG without media, create a new profile (File > Profile) and import the file there. Whatever you do there won’t touch your main profile.
You can not delete individual cards, only notes. You could theoretically do it by modifying the card template in such a manner that the card isn’t generated and then use Tools > Empty Cards, but I don’t think that’s a good idea.
Other than New Cards > Learning steps – none of those has any impact on FSRS. For you learning and relearning steps, choose 1 short step (or at most 2) you’re comfortable with, in the 5-30m range.
I recommend placing the German→English cards in a separate deck from the English→German cards. The two decks can then have distinct FSRS presets.
The reason this is useful is because the difficulty of German→English will likely be quite different from the difficulty of English→German. Using separate presets helps each card start with a more accurate initial FSRS state.