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| dearwanderlust Newbie United States youtube.com/dearwandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5276 days ago 38 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 1 of 6 05 January 2013 at 11:08pm | IP Logged |
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Can someone please tell me how to change the interval settings for Anki? Currently my
profile is set to the following: 10m Soon 3.4mo Hard 1.2y Good 3.0y Easy Those intervals are insane. Can someone please suggest better interval settings and how to set them. I've read about other people using an "advanced" option but I've been unable to locate it on my iphone 5 or desktop. Thank you! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6914 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 6 05 January 2013 at 11:51pm | IP Logged |
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This looks like the interval for a certain card, not "any given card". In my version of Anki (1.2.8), it's Settings->Deck properties->Advanced, and the (default) settings for the initial check are:
Button 1 - 10 minutes (standard interval, regardless of the previous level) Button 2 - x1.0 ~1.1 days Button 3 - x3.0 ~5.0 days Button 4 - x7.0 ~9.0 days So, if you see a new word for the first time, and grade it "Hard" (Button 2), it will appear in ~1.1 days (and probably in another ~1.1 days if you grade it "Hard" the next time, otherwise multiply by x3 or x7, or simply in 10 minutes if you fail completely). Hope this helps. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dearwanderlust Newbie United States youtube.com/dearwandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5276 days ago 38 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 3 of 6 06 January 2013 at 1:18am | IP Logged |
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Thank you for responding. My version is 2.03 and I don't seem to have an "advanced"
option. The only options I have at the top of the screen are file, edits, tools and help. Neither option takes me to "deck properties" or "advanced". If someone could lead me to the "advanced" feature (if it exists on this version) I would really appreciate it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LaughingChimp Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4704 days ago 346 posts - 594 votes Speaks: Czech* | Message 4 of 6 06 January 2013 at 11:06am | IP Logged |
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Intervals increase with time. If you answer correctly, the interval is increased, if you aswer incorectly, it's reset to one day. The idea is that you don't waste time with things you already know.
The deck settings are right next to the deck name or down on the deck's starting page. You can change the "interval modifier" and "maximum interval" settings in "reviews" or you may try to export and import the deck, that should reset all the intervals. Edited by LaughingChimp on 06 January 2013 at 11:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4914 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 5 of 6 06 January 2013 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
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The intervals is one of the things I don't like about Anki. When I press hard, they never seem to go beyond one day, but when I press the next one up, the intervals start to go up way too fast.
I still haven't upgraded to the new version of Anki, since Ankidroid is still in beta, and I understand intervals are a bit better with it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SchwarzerWolf Newbie Italy Joined 4528 days ago 20 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Italian* Studies: English, German | Message 6 of 6 07 January 2013 at 2:29pm | IP Logged |
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I myself am not satisfied with Anki's intervals, but I suggest you to be careful in case you decide to change them. Especially if you add new cards on a regular basis, you run the risk of having tons of "reviews due today" if you make the intervals shorter.
The only advice I can give you is to be a severe judge of yourself and to use Anki every single day. For example I use only the first three buttons and with the smallest error (for example if I'm undecided about the gender of the word or its plural form, or if I simply take too much time to remember a word) I decide to review it soon. I don't know if I'm right or wrong, but this method allows me to have about 2.100 words in my Anki with an average of 50/60 words per day. So...no more than ten minutes a day and all the reviews are done. If I had to review 100 or more card a day, well, Anki would be boring, I think. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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