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If I had this as “1 minute,” it would tell me how many cards I reviewed after 1 minute. It just will tell you how many cards you’ve reviewed after a certain amount of time. The final setting seems like Anki’s attempt at a Pomodoro built-in timer, or some sort of timer. We want to minimize that as much as possible. When you mess with this setting you are messing with the algorithm. I would never change this setting unless you are trying to get through these cards before bed, or need to get through the cards in a short amount of time for some reason. However, if it is set at 0, as mine is, I have to wait that 15 minutes before I see this card. This means if Anki pushed a card 15 minutes into the future, as it what happens for me when I hit “again,” if the “learn ahead limit” is 15 minutes, I could review it now (0 minutes after hitting “again”). The last setting worth mention here is the learn ahead limit. I am never up past 10 pm studying, and never up before 5 am. If you study late into the night or start studying really early in the morning, you might want to change this setting. That means cards that are destined for the next calendar day appear at 4 am that day. This is the time at which the “next day” is registered by Anki. You can check out my daily study routine here.įinally, I have the “new day” start at 4 am. Then I will learn the new content for today from third-party content, unsuspend those new cards, then study them. Then I will learn any new cards leftover from the day before. This is because I want to review all of the information that settled in my brain overnight first. The next setting is the order of cards to be shown. So my “again” step is 15 minutes and my “good” step is 1 day so my “hard” step is ~12 hours. Learning cards now have a “hard” button, this is just the average of your “again” and “good” learning step.Suspending/burying cards doesn’t affect learning steps.

Filtered decks work much better (cards stats don’t reset when building or deleting decks).

How will we be tested, in order? Probably not, let’s mimic test day as much as possible and have our reviews show up in random order). I do not think that is best for reviewing information for an exam.

Reviews show up in random order (This is the most important change, in older versions of Anki reviews would show up in order.

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Some benefits of this ( a full list of changes can be found here): The only other one worth mentioning is the 2.1 scheduler beta. I feel that it is distracting and makes it more about smashing through the number of cards than understanding the information. I leave “show remaining card count” unchecked. Also, it’s beneficial to know how far in the future your cards are being pushed if you have an exam coming up.įor example, my Step 1 exam is in 2 months, so I know if I see “3 months” on the “good” button, I better know that card because I won’t be seeing it again before I take my exam. I think it’s better to leave it enabled so you can monitor to see if Anki is doing anything funky with your review times. “Show next review time above answer buttons” is the difference between this: This is the most important section in preferences.

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If you want a guide on how to customize your Anki background click here. Night mode means certain things about my Anki will look different, as shown on my Anki below: The only thing worth mentioning here is “Night Mode.” This setting makes my deck have a gray background normally with white text. This is a long, but I think fairly helpful post. I noticed, about 6 months in that certain settings weren’t working out as well for me, like the “again” setting and max-time interval. My settings are adapted from the AnKing’s, Conaanaa’s, and MedShamin’s guides. Then, play around with them to match your learning style. You should read this post to get a good understanding of what the Anki settings and algorithms mean and “good” settings to start off with. These may not be optimal settings for learning other things such as a new language or for how you learn individually. Pictures of My Recommended Settings For Medical SchoolĪs a disclaimer, these are just the settings I have found to work best for me in medical school.

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