Suggestion for front-to-back & back-to-front

[chris.b...@gmail.com]

Good morning all,

Just a quick suggestion (not sure if anyone's made it, or something similar, before). I regularly enter front-to-back and back-to-front cards in order to learn things more thoroughly, with all sorts of different types of information. But they often tend to come up either together or very close (i.e., on the same day), so the "spaced repetition" effect is kind of nullified, and one gets a "bonus" from me having seen the other very recently. This is more deleterious for some of the types of cards I make than others, but it would be nice to avoid it. Is there any way to set them up to phase away from each other? Or to have one sister be learned a day or two later? I find myself artificially grading one in the pair high and one low the first time I review them in order to make this happen, but it doesn't seem proper. And of course I could play around with creating them, then going in and tagging them all separately, then only reviewing them on certain days; but that seems a lot more work than its worth. Ideas?

- Chris Shanks

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

Are you sure this is really a set of cards from 'front-to-back and back-to-front', and not just 2 separate 'front-to-back' cards with inverted Q and A?

Normally, *scheduled* cards from 'front-to-back and back-to-front' should never appear on the same day, except under special circumstances, like e.g. learning ahead of schedule.

Cheers,

Peter

[chris.b...@gmail.com]

Now I know it's setup that way, I'd say your hypothesis is probably correct. I use front to back and back to front a lot, but with the amount of cards I've entered I'm probably just seeing really similar cards and thinking they're sister cards. I'm not too worried about it. Time and patience should overcome all short-term inefficiencies in how I've designed my cards. :)