I don’t know what this is called - my Ankidroid doesn’t start new study sessions after a day passes. It is as if my Ankidroid doesn’t see when the date changes - it doesn’t matter how many 24-hour periods pass I don’t get prompted to study. It is as if I have permanently completed today’s study.
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Are you considering what time your “next day” is set to start?
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Are you expecting something automatic to happen when the new day starts – other than cards due that day becoming available to study?
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Do you have any cards due –
Stats > Future Due?
Yes. When the next day starts I am expecting that I will automatically have cards ready for me to study. That was how it worked the first time I used Ankidroid. Now more than 24 hours can pass and my Ankidroid still looks like I just finished studying all my cards.
What should I have “statistics > Future Due” set to? 1 month? 1 year? all? It shows No Data.
I took a look at your collection synced on AnkiWeb, and you don’t have any cards due. You’ve got less than 200 cards total, and the next one isn’t due until Wednesday.
When you first started, your cards were scheduled for shorter intervals, but when you study them and get them right (which you do nearly every time), they are scheduled for longer intervals. Eventually, your workload thins out, so there won’t necessarily be cards due every day.
Were you looking at one of your empty Filtered/Custom Study decks? All of the cards are in your regular deck.
Nicely and clearly explained, @Danika_Dakika !
Thank you so much for looking into this.
How do I increase the frequency of study days? I really need to be studying every day. This old man’s brain really needs more frequent reviews.
Thank you again!
But – do you though?
Look at your Stats > Retention table. You’ve been getting 99-100% of your cards correct when you study them. I think that’s a strong argument that you’re already reviewing these cards enough – possibly too often. [It looks like a lot of your studying is done in Filtered/Custom Study decks, so perhaps you’re getting 100% correct because you’re already reviewing these cards before they need to be studied.]
Anki’s job is to reduce the time you spend studying flashcards, to no more than necessary. So while you’ve already found the ways to study (over-study) them as often as you like, it would be difficult to get Anki to schedule them even more often when you’re having such success.
The main way someone might increase the days they need to use Anki is by introducing additional material to study. Is there anything else you want to study beyond these 200 cards?
Other than that, I’d usually suggest for anyone to enable FSRS, because it’s so much easier to adjust your workload. But for you, that’s likely to result in even longer intervals, lower workload – even if you crank your Desired Retention up to 99%.
Thank you again! Really, I appreciate your attention.
Yeah, I guess I am hoping to get these correct much sooner. Sometimes I have to look and think about it for a while - and even if I do get it correct after a pause it doesn’t feel right.
Yeah, I am trying to add new material - I’m studying Chinese Hanzi so I come up with new characters when I think of a new word to add, and then I try to add a few more related words as well. I’m probably adding 15 to 20 new words per week. I find that I learn best when I add words which came up in a real life situation so I don’t like adding random words from some other list.
This is great approach in general. With that, if you have spare time for more reviews, it means you should start with spending it on more immersion first, which will inevitably lead to more new words to add and, consequently, getting more reviews in Anki.
Also, keep in mind that reviews will accumulate over time. Anything studied now will eventually come back and pile up on top of anything that will be studied at the time in the future. Because of that it is normal to have a lower load at the very beginning.
Thank you for the input. Yeah, I only have one Chinese language partner right now. I use Ankidroid while I’m on the train then make time for writing the characters repetitively - usually at a coffee shop before work. In Chinese most words are pairs of characters so when I come up with a new word (ie: new pair of characters) I search for a group of words which share one of the characters in that first word so the meaning is related.