Retention How-to
This guide is entirely my opinion
Whenever you are making these changes, please observe for a few weeks
before tweaking for more
The settings matter less
the further you go
in Japanese as you'll get used to it
or know a lot to build upon from
Mining
This is mostly beginner's pointers
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Make sure you
only mine i+1
aka only 1 unknown kanji in the vocab or in the sentence it came from, that it should all makes sense but that 1 unknown -
Try
avoiding rare words/very specific vocab words
(e.g. fantasy settings, if you know you won't read it again) -
Usually, you can rep with just yomitan in the very common vocabs, try avoiding mining that, unless it took you ages and you still confuse it
Anki Settings
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Use my settings, you can also try microstep modified v2 or microstep modified v1
- Shift + Click 'options' on your deck to get this window
Anki Settings (click here)
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Lapse, make your
leech threshold
down into4-6
andsuspend card
instead of tag only -
Use
micro steps
, my microstep modified v2 has it, iteases recognizing new cards
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(Worse case scenario)
Decrease your new cards
, usually by3-5
thenobserve for a few weeks
General Suggestions
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On
Anki
>Custom Study
>Review forgotten cards
>1 day
only- I'd recommend
doing your anki first thing in the morning
, then doing this at night - It's good as it only takes
less than 5 minutes
since there's no step
- I'd recommend
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You are actually honest;
if you forgot, you forgot
, it will be better in long term
Anki Settings to tweak if above fails
In your Deck
's option:
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Change
New Cards
>Starting Ease
decrease to 30-50% each time then observe -
Change
Reviews
>Interval Modifier
by 10% plus or minus(lowest 90%) depending on your retention
Anki Custom Algorithm: FSRS
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Make sure you have
at least 3-6 months of stable anki data
as this algorithm analyses your memory- Creator mentions a
difference of 12.6%
compared to threshold and18.1% against anki
- Creator mentions a
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Its a little bit techy so here's a full guide
References
Anki Settings
full explanation and add-ons: AnimeCards Site and Micro Steps Guide for full explanation
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I'd recommend getting straight rewards and AJT Mortician(good for shortening time) if you didn't get my Anki Add-Ons
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My microstep modified v2 is a modified version of microstep modified v1 and this(original) from Micro Steps Guide
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My settings or Animecards settings works best if you are naturally good at memorizing, but if you're here, it probably didn't work