![]() Interval * Interval Modifier = New Intervalġ0 days * 120% = 12 days (new interval) Why Should I Change My Interval Modifier? Were you to implement that modifier, you would see the card next in 12 days instead of 10. For now, let’s assume you have an Interval Modifier of 120%. Let’s say you have a card where a Good answer will result in you seeing the card in 10 days (interval = 10). You can use this to increase or decrease the default review time for every card. Next to each deck, you’ll see a little cog symbol, which you can pull down to access a deck’s options.If you are trying to optimize your Anki settings, you should definitely be looking at your Interval Modifier.Īnki’s Interval Modifier takes the normal interval for a card and multiplies it by the interval modifier. It’s easiest to do this in the desktop program. This gives you control over the settings for that deck alone, and allows you to keep the deck where it is, but make it behave differently. However, you can set up separate ‘options groups’, and apply them to individual decks in a stack. If you have a limit of ten new cards a day on the superdeck, all the subdecks share that limit. ![]() By default, all the decks in a superdeck have the same settings. If only there were some way of keeping decks where they are, but adjusting the new card / review settings separately from the rest… Anki Options Groups Or lots of other slightly sad metaphors… In any case, it felt wrong. It’s like parking you classic, but disused car, in a dark, dusty garage. I love seeing the long list of languages I’ve worked on in Anki, and removing one smarts a little. It’s almost like you’ve given up on it – it’s no longer in your Anki hall of fame, it no longer feels like yours. Removing a whole deck from your stack renders the language invisible. The trouble is, it could feel like a clunky kludge at times. I talk about this cycle in a previous post. When I was ready to restart that language, I’d move it back. This deck had a learn / review limit of zero in its settings, effectively turning it off. When I was ready to rest a language for a while, I’d simply rename its deck into ‘Rested Languages’. ![]() I normally nest all my language decks in a superdeck called ‘Languages’. The way I was doing this before was quite efficient, on the whole. And some of those I want to bring out of their rest phase, and work on maintaining, rather than growing them. Others I’ve learnt in the past, and want to ‘rest’ them for a while before returning to them in the future. The problem is that I rotate a lot of languages in my learning routine. Here’s how I’ve tweaked it to fit my goals and lifestyle more neatly lately. But, with some tweaking, you can fit it around your goals and lifestyle much more neatly. The experimenter’s ethos is key: it might work it might not. That said, sometimes you just need to be brave and change things up a little. How many people, for example, never touch the advanced settings on a new phone, console or TV? Change things up a little When something works straight out the box and does the job, it’s tempting not to tinker. With Anki, as with all things, it’s easy to get stuck in your ways. I’ve spent a useful chunk of time this week optimising my Anki flash card decks. But when anticlimactic gloom ensues, sometimes you’re motivated to very productive distractions. Well, the football didn’t go England’s way this week. Commiserations, fellow polyglot fans who were also hoping.
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