[Karrot_Kream]

Yeah I agree. Anki has a failure mode for me that I eventually accumulate > 5000 flash cards and a review session can take an hour or more. Knowing what to review is really difficult. I'll give Supermemo a shot, I've always heard of it as the gold standard but never tried it.

[zozbot234]

> Yeah I agree. Anki has a failure mode for me that I eventually accumulate >5000 flash cards and a review session can take an hour or more.

You don't really need to keep up with Anki's review sessions, even a partial session is very effective when you have lots and lots of cards. The tradeoff is that you might not actually maintain 100% recall of all items, but you'll recall most of them, and the scheduling algorithm will space out the items that you do recall even further.

[4BA9940C]

I'm familiar with that problem, and overcame it by really working at making good cards. Today, I have 6000 cards in my collection, and daily reviews take 15-20 minutes; usually 100-120 cards. (I have been using Anki for a lost time. My collection is almost 10 years old.)

Granted, writing good cards is easy to say and really hard to do. Some specific pointers:

- cards should take less than 10 seconds to answer

- most questions should be 7 words or so

- if your question has multiple clauses, split those up into separate cards

- cloze deletions are great, consider multiple clozes per card

- around 10% of your cards should have images

- good images help a lot, mediocre images make it worse -- when in doubt, don't

- Answer this Question cards should have an opposite Question for this Answer like Jeopardy

[rsanek]

In my experience, you really only start to see these problems at the tens of thousands of flashcards level. I have ~70,000 mature flashcards and also have the growing backlog problem, even if I don't add new cards for weeks. My collection is 8 years old.

I agree that making good flashcards helps alot. Another big thing is to make sure the knowledge graph is connected, eg there are no 'orphaned' individual cards / groups of cards. Those tend to suffer seriously from decay for me.

[examplary_cable]

I believe this will fit in here:

I'm working on a program that solves this problem: we don't have mandatory daily reviews and we also have a Spaced Repetition Algorithm for reviews. Also it's much more flexible than Anki & Supermemo. So you don't have to stress over as to complete the daily grind.

https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook