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Hey guys,
Ran into a トラベル the other day which i tried to fix and juts gave up today. I’m a vocab monster, I LOVE studying vocab on anki, every day, as much as i can, more than 2 times at day, at lunch in my job, when I wake up in the morning, when I come back home from working and then before sleeping and dont get me started on weekends…. Its simply what I like, I love japanese vocabs (If you are curious why its because I love the japanese writing system of combinations of Kanjis with different meaning when separated and constructing a new meaning when together that fits, most of the times, the combination of the separated meanings).
So to get ahead of Textfugu, I started at the same time Wanikani and downloaded some vocab decks here and there. Wanikani is just too slow for me. Too many of the decks i found are in Kanji which I dont have a solid foundation yet (Starting with 5 strokes) and so its not helpful at all to me, its too random for me yet. I found an awesome one here called “Ultimate vocab deck” which has a verb an adjective and 3 noun decks (or 4, dont remember). Thing is that its supposed that you can kind of filter these decks (at least the verbs deck) to study them in chunks but the instructions do not work on these versions of anki. The instructions said to filter in the options of the deck by tags but some of the tags they say aren’t even in the deck in form of tags, are in the deck in form of card types (kanaです for example) and the option to show only the cards which have a given tag doesnt even exist anymore where こおいち先生 says at least.Tried to solve this by making a filtered custom study deck using card:kanaます and the tags and it worked flawlessly but only for a one day study, the deck doesnt keep up showing reviews the next days and so on.
So the question is, does anybody know how to get this deck and separate it in smaller decks based on card types and tags?
Nevermind, just found out how. If anybody is curious:
In the browser just issue the search that will give you as result what you want (In my case it was:
deck:ultiverbs card:kanaます (tag:group01 or tag:group02) ) thens elect all the results from the search and then just click in the button “change deck”, select a new deck (in this case I created a new deck called verbgrp0102) and done. The cards are deleted from the main deck ultiverbs and are moved to my deck verbgrp0102 to study them. When I think I’m kinda ok, I will move 2 or more groups and keep on till I finish, move everything to my main vocab deck and create a new deck with the cards reversded to learn from english to jap.Hello!
I’m new to both Japanese and Anki and I’d like to ask for your help with Anki2, please.
On textfugu I read: “You’ll want to click on the “timeboxing” option to limit your session to 5 items (just for now).” Well, it doesn’t seem to work like that on Anki2.
So as I was going through the options, I figured out that I could build a filter deck with just the first 5 items. Well then, should I build another filter deck each time I want to add items? Or is there another way?
I also tried simply setting New cards/day on ’5′ in hiragana deck options, perhaps that’s a better way as it allows continued studying. But I’m under the impression that the older hiragana (the ones I practiced a few days ago) are too rarely reviewed (or maybe it just seems so to me).
Well, perhaps I’ve been doing everything correctly but I thought I might as well ask.Don’t worry about following the instructions exactly; there is no “right way” to study.
You’re right though, timeboxing does not allow you to limit to a certain number of cards in Anki 2 (I don’t think it ever did; that wouldn’t really be <b>time</b>boxing.). Also 5 new items a day seems really low, but to each his own.
If you think the older cards are being reviewed too infrequently, ask yourself if you are failing those cards too frequently, or do you usually get them right? If you get them right, then it’s not too infrequent. If you get them wrong, they should automatically start showing up more frequently. So, you shouldn’t have to worry about it too much.
Since you say you’re new to Anki, I’ll give a bit of a primer.
New Cards:
When you first study a card it’s in “learning mode”. Anki will show it to you once, if you get it right, it will show it to you again in about 10 minutes. If you get it right a second time, it leaves “learning mode” and enters “review mode” and will be shown to you again the next day. If you get a card wrong during “learning mode” anki will show the card again in 1 minute, and will keep showing it to you until you get it right twice in a row, then it goes to “review mode” and you will see it the next day.
Review Cards:
When a card leaves “learning mode” it has an interval of one day. The interval refers to the amount of time Anki waits to show the card again. When you get a card right, the interval grows, and you will see the card less and less frequently. The default is to multiply the interval by 2.5 each time you get the card right (this number is called the “ease”, so after you first review (interval of 1 day), you will see the card in about 3 days, then about 6, then 16, then 40, then 100, and so on, if you keep getting it right. Answering “Hard” lowers the ease of the card from the default of 2.5 (or whatever it’s current value is), meaning you will see the card more frequently. Answering “Easy” raises the ease of the card, meaning you will see it more often. Answering “Again” sets the interval to zero, and the card is then treated like a new card.All of those numbers are configurable in the program, so if you think that you are not seeing your cards frequently enough, you could change the default ease from 2.5 to something lower, but like I said at the start, if you are getting it right every time, you are seeing it plenty. The whole point of Anki (and spaced repetition in general) is to wait to test you on information until you’ve almost forgotten it. The theory goes that the harder you have to think to remember something, the stronger the links in your mind become. If you think of it like lifting weights, you want it to be hard but not impossible, that’s the best way to get results.
Thank you kindly! This actually helps a lot. Perhaps I should try it with more items a day. I definitely thought about decreasing the default ease number but having read your explanation for it, I would agree it makes sense as is. Anyway, I think I get how this all works better now. So once again, thanks! ^^
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