Anki: How to Avoid "Ease Hell" (aka doing too many cards)
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@Darkwinggames · 2022-07 · in “Am I using anki optimally?”
Seeing your settings, it is likely that you are stuck in ease hell. Anking has a video about it here: ▶ link He also has a video about recommended settings for anki to avoid this in the future: ▶ link There are also addons that can help with avoiding/getting out of ease hell.
View on r/medicalschool@speakerstand7 · 2022-03 · in “For Anking users, how many cards do you finish per day?”
It took me a while to get to this level of anki cards. I also use the Ease Hell settings for my decks ▶ link which helps a lot by increasing the spacing between cards without sacrificing memory retention. What worked for me: I improved my attention span and focus when I began using text-to-speech. It helped me stay on task. I also set myself a timer for 30 minutes with a goal to accomplish 150 cards. Sometimes I woul…
View on r/step1@BKT22 · 2021-01 · in “anki help please!!”
There is a video by the Anking on Youtube about how to change your settings and another one called how to avoid "ease hell". Both of those might be helpful. You can play around with your settings so that you push cards into the future faster and get through more without getting bogged down in too many reviews too quickly. Hope these help! Good luck! ▶ link ▶ link
View on r/step1@OsteoStache · 2020-10 · in “Is it a good idea to limit review cards on anki?”
I agree with u/Bartholomoose. Check out this video from the AnKing about being in "Ease Hell,", which may be why your are doing 1000+ cards a day (▶ link and this one about about how he scored 260+ and suspended a lot of his cards during dedicated (▶ link
View on r/step1@xxpussydestroyerxxMD · 2020-10 · in “This may or may not be based on my life [meme]”
Help is here ▶ link
View on r/medicalschool@SalkPincusGrossman · 2020-07 · in “How to avoid doing tons of review cards?”
▶ link I think this video can help. Anking compares the number of cards him and his friends do. He says the difference is in the number of steps it takes to graduate and the graduating interval. I set my cards to his settings and I usually only have up to 300 reviews a day and about 150 new cards a day. I'm pretty new though (only 2 weeks into Anking) so I don't know how long this lasts and if my reviews will increas…
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