Hello! I have a question: What am I suppose to do with over 200 terms for review daily?
Until yesterday I daily studied all schedules until they had 0 terms to learn and review and it took reasonable amount of time under an hour. But later studying time bloated up to 3+ hours! Don't even have time to figure out long kanna strings of past tense. Should schedules stay unfinished or is there some hidden settings that will decrease daily quota?
This is a problem that almost everyone runs into sooner or later. The easiest thing to do is just review as many items as you feel like doing each day and let the spaced repetition system worry about it for you. But if you want to give yourself an achievable goal for daily study, you can set that in your schedule settings.
Yeah with such problem you probably have to set your schedule settings how would you able to handle. As long as you learning something new the amount of terms is rising but after a week if you don't have to study a new terms it's much shorter to review. So first of all set up your Schedule then think about the priorities because too much courses means too much to learn and review. I had the same problem when picked so many courses and personally I have a kind of goal for a session and then if I'm not tired or busy I can do other things.
As you study the terms, they will be pushed up in mastery level and then the term will show up less frequently, which will result in less terms per day. That makes the bath tub drain.
If you add new terms faster than it drains, it fills up more and more, and it might overflow (you have a backlog of terms). So you can either:
1) add water more slowly (reduce the number of terms), so it doesn't overflow (result in a backlog of terms)
2) ignore it (let the tub overflow, and have a growing backlog of terms)
Both strategies have their own merits, so you could pick either one, or even a combination of the two, based on what you are comfortable with.
You can also freeze a schedule if you are overwhelmed. For me it helped to freeze the harder ones which takes more time and brainpower, so I got the motivation to power through the easier schedules faster and clear them, and then unfreeze the harder ones one by one.
Having reviews piling up is kind of part of the game to be honest. As Anonymous said, the more you add new terms fast, the more reviews are going to accumulate. The important thing is that you find the right balance for you. Look at your stats if you can and notice your accuracy rate. If it's on the lower side, focus on adding less terms and do more reviews instead. If it's high and you feel comfortable with not always clearing you reviews, the feel free to add more new terms and do less reviewing. Renshuu is super customizable so don't be afraid to try different approaches to see how well they work for you.
I don't think anyone's mentioned it, but there are *several* tools aside from the ones mentioned above to help you. Most of them are under Settings icon > More settings for the schedule.
1. Reduce number of vectors = less questions
2. Reduce number of new terms = slows down growth
3. Switch from "slow and thorough" to "quick and simple" <--- this is especially good if you are getting higher up in your mastery levels
4. Adjust the mastery level spacings so you get them less often.
