#Hello, how can I make my workload balanced instead of taking them all in in one go?

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I have so many reviews because I set my leeches to tag only from suspend, is there a way to make it balanced?

I can modify my deck through AnkiWeb and Anki on computer if that's necessary.

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sand pewter
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I think you'll be surprised by how complicated the answer to this question could be!

Anki Fundamentals

The first thing to keep in mind is that Anki schedules your cards based on its understanding of your memory. This understanding is based on the idea of the forgetting curve. The longer you go without reviewing, the more likely you are to forget the card when it comes up for review.

If you're using FSRS (which you should consider, if you're not), by default it schedules cards to be reviewed when it thinks you have a 90% chance of getting them right. The longer you delay your review, the lower your chance of getting it right when it comes up.

As a general rule, you have two levers for controlling your workload in Anki:

  1. The amount of new cards you learn per day. Generally, depending on how hard the material is, you can expect to eventually have to do every day between 7x and 12x your daily news (blues) as reviews (greens). E.g. if you learn 10 new cards every day, after a few months you will be doing 70 to 120 reviews every day.

  2. With FSRS, you can also reduce your Desired Retention. At a lower Desired Retention, your workload will be lower, but you will get more cards wrong when they come up. If your Desired Retention (DR) is 90%, FSRS will show you a card when it thinks you have a 10% chance of getting it wrong. If your DR is 70%, it'll show it to you when it thinks you have a 30% of getting it wrong. It will take a lot longer for your memory of that card to decay to that point, increasing the card intervals, and thus decreasing your workload.

You can use the built-in FSRS Simulator to get an idea of how your workload might change at different DRs and new card rates.

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A One Off Issue or a Backlog

The information above can help you keep your load at a desired level generally. If this is just a one off, you essentially have a backlog.

There are a lot of ways to deal with a backlog. The simplest way is just to do nothing special. By which I mean, study as many cards as you comfortably can each day, with the goal of making it so that at the start of the day tomorrow you have fewer cards due than you did at the start of the day today. That way, you'll eventually get through it. (E.g. You have 255 cards due today. You study 50 of them. At the start of the day tomorrow, you have 230 cards due. You study 50 of them. At the start of the day the next day you have 215 cards due. Eventually you will have worked through your backlog, and you'll end a day with 0 cards due.)

Anything else you can do will just be a smokescreen (moving cards around so that they don't look like they're due and you don't have to see the big number, but they already are due) or a micro optimization (making working through the backlog slightly more efficient). Fundamentally, you just have to do more cards per day than come due, but not do so many cards per day that you want to die.

Here are some more options for working through the backlog, so you don't have to see the big ugly number: #1325519922813599856 message.

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In terms of micro optimizations, you can mess with your sort order. If you're using FSRS, Descending Retrievability will make your daily reviews more smooth (until you catch up close to the end of your backlog), by giving you the cards you're most likely to get right first; Ascending Retrievability will let you maintain a backlog while forgetting as few cards as possible, by making your daily reviews start with the cards you're most likely to have forgotten first (this will likely feel more difficult, as you'll get more cards wrong)

You should likely also turn off new cards while you work through your backlog, UNLESS you want to maintain a constant backlog. (Which, honestly, is fine. Set your sort order to Ascending Retrievability and just accept that you'll forget more cards during reviews.)

Why so many leeches?

I believe your claim is that most of these cards are leeches. Having 200 leeches in a 1.5k deck is a problem. Are you doing anything to stop these being leeches? I'm pretty biased against the idea of just raw dogging Kaishi 1.5k with no background, if that's what you're doing. Here's my common advice: #1460058504709800263 message

wild terrace
sand pewter
wild terrace
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Ah yeah I forgot to mention