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by TheDong 1273 days ago
> If you mostly know a card, but miss it on one day [..] that card's learning progress should not be totally reset [..] Instead, you should use some modifier to increase the interval to a reasonable level.

In anki "Deck Options -> Advanced -> New interval -> 0.50" will make it so marking it as "Again" will cut the SRS interval by 50%, so i.e. if "easy" would have been "1 year", it now becomes "6 months" if it's easy the next time.

The above setting is called out in the "Adjust your New Interval" section of the link you provided, so it looks like you may have just missed that you already found the solution.

I've found 0.5 to be a good value, but you can tweak it of course. The default is 0, which gives the behavior you've observed (reset it all the way back).

> I think it would be awesome to pair SRS with high quality images and audio, which I find most helpful for language learning.

Anki cards can include images and audio, and while a little less well, they also support videos.

It's probably worth trying to create a deck within anki that does what you want before building your own system. It'll at least let you find actual issues with anki, rather than the surface-level misunderstandings of it you've got now.

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I admit it's been a few years since I've dug really deep into Anki - you are right, I could probably fix the problems with the algorithm by tweaking the advanced options. Still, it'd be nice to have something that works out of the box.

Yes - I'm aware that Anki cards can include images and audio, and I've used those features extensively enough to know they are definitely lacking for my use case! Mostly, I'd like to make it easier to add the images and audio. The way I've done it in the past was googling for a stock image, downloading Forvo/Wiktionary audio files, and then dropping them into the Anki app. I'd appreciate an easier way to add these audio files and images when I add new vocabulary to my decks.

Anki's editing tools are a really generic, and thus tricky to use, tool, agreed!

Like many other anki users, I've ended up writing code that generates my decks.

If you can think of a better UX for editing cards specific to what you're studying, implementing a tool that creates and edits cards outside of anki, and then using anki for the study part, will probably end up being less work in total.

If it's _only_ the editing part, that's solvable without having to rewrite the whole SRS system too.