need a day off

[heikos...@gmail.com]

I have many decks, but the daily amount of cards is ok - as long as i learn every day.
If i take a day off the number of cards gets too high.

Is there a way to set a zero-day ?

(No new cards and also no repeaters)

[Xiao Sun]

1. number of decks is irrelevant. 

2. I don't know what your "ok" is.

3. Stop doing Anki and you'll get a permanent zero-day. 

4. If you want to continue using Anki, there is no way of getting a "zero-day", you'll get backlogs, because your brain forget things. 

5. But people will tell you otherwise by filter decks.

6. Filter decks and other tricks are nothing more than a securitization of your backlogs over a longer period.

[Nicolas Raoul]

Hi Heiko,

Just set the number of new cards to zero for a few days before and after.

If the workload is still too high, how about reducing the number of cards, for instance by removing a deck that you don't care too much about?

Personally I allow myself to have a backlog, it disappears after a week or so of daily normal use.

Thanks for using AnkiDroid!

Nicolas Raoul

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[Xiao Sun]

Backlogs do not just "disappear"! They were amortised over a week when you did extra reviews above your normal review to cover the backlog.

This is a misrepresentation of backlogs, as if they can be allowed to exist with impunity.

Backlogs are debts, it must be repaid. If a banker said such a thing to a borrower, take on this debt and it will disappear over the years, he would be grilled alive by ASIC.

[Xiao Sun]

I just want to convey that backlogs are unavoidable if you skip Anki.

Although backlogs does have place and can be very useful, in fact desirable and it's usefulness is again being neglected by Damian. As I have suggested in the past that, when you have a old deck that has a fairly long average interval, for example you have a kanji deck that you have been doing every day for the past five years, and you have come to a point that you only do about 10 cards a day, and you do on average 2000 cards a day, it's a way of time to do that kanji deck just for 10 cards because you have spend time on the transaction cost (clicking that deck, taking out your pen etc), it would be better to just let it backlog and accumulate enough cards before a review session is initiated. For such decks, it would be better to start showing review number when it reaches a certain threshold or every X number of days, which ever come first.

If Anki developers are really serious users of Anki themselves, they would have thought of these issues and find such function to be a vital tools in the management of large amount of knowledge through the effective use of a SRS.

[Charles J. Daniels]

You could move these types of decks you mention Xiao, with like, 10 cards in them, into a single parent deck. And then just study that parent deck all at once.

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[Xiao Sun]

When I said a deck I mean a deck of the same card templates. 

Grouping 10 decks of 10 cards in each of the 10 different templates into a single deck 100 cards would still be annoying as the user have to adjust every ten cards. 

Efficiency comes from economy of scale, doing large amount of cards of the same card template.

[Charles J. Daniels]

have to adjust what? different note types wouldn't be a big adjust in my eyes -- it's like when a person studies 4 languages, they should be able to switch rather fluently from one to the other, especially on "5 year old decks"

of course I don't know your decks -- if the note types make you have to change physical configurations (stylus, whiteboard, etc) I can see what you mean

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[heikos...@gmail.com]

Please consider a "day off - button"
For the next version

Thanks

[Xiao Sun]

What is a day off button gonna do? 

If you want to a day off, just don't use AnkiDroid for the day..

[Charles J. Daniels]

Yeah, the thing about skip a day heiko, is that if you don't do new cards on a day, there is no penalty, they just wait until the day you do them, but when it comes to review cards, they are on a schedule for a reason, so do them or don't do them, but their scheduling is set for a reason. In fact, if you stop the deck for a month and then come back and get things right, it will schedule them with that whole month of remembering as part of the scheduling choice, even if it's only you second time seeing a card.

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