Is the default config really that you'll eventually have heaps of mastered sentences every day in review?

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#1

I’ve been plodding away at the Polish from English FFT for long enough that I’m seeing my review pile grow substantially larger than the gap between playing and mastered. That is:

  • Playing: 2,161 / 17,428
  • Mastered: 1,494
  • Therefore I have 667 non-mastered sentences
  • Ready for Review: 1,155

I assumed until now that mastered words would go away entirely but now it seems like they will repeat every 180 days indefinitely unless I go in and change it. Is that correct/intended?

My goal is to complete and ideally master the entire FFT. Basic maths suggests that by the time I had every sentence in play, on average I would be doing 97 reviews every day just to keep the mastered sentences at bay, plus whatever ones I had to go through the sequence again because I made a mistake or forgot them. At my usual 50-150 reviews per day (which I intend to improve a bit) I’m clearly stuffed.

It seems I should just set the repeat time to “Never” for 100% mastered. Am I missing something more basic?

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#2

Eh, whinge whinge whinge. Clearly I just need to do 200/day and then it will all be fine.

#3

Yes, once you hit that six month mark, it seems you have to start reviewing sentences you’ve already long ago mastered. It’s a little annoying.

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#4

Hi parazite. Yes, with the default review options, all your mastered sentences will return every 180 days. I like to keep my review counts low and keep making progress, so I changed mine to Never for mastered sentences for exactly that reason.

Just a heads-up that if you do change that config option, I think it only affects sentences you master going forward, and the ~1500 sentences that you already mastered will still return on their 180 day schedule. I don’t know if there’s a way to change them all in bulk.

#5

I wonder, have you overlooked the button that lets you to set a cloze to “fully mastered”, i.e., with a next-review date of January 1, 2100? In my opinion, it’s a good default to schedule a recurring review after six months. You might not need it for basic vocabulary, but more infrequently used words may need a refresher from time to time.

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#6

great. Now I will can’t even look forward to ringing in the 22nd century, knowing that I have tens of thousands of reviews looming in the future.

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#7

But we’ll all be speaking Esperanto by then, surely! :wink:

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#8

the language of the future, and always will be

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