Comment by 0xDEAFBEAD
1 day ago
>I also credit it to me burning out so hard I took a gap year!
Do you think targeting a sub-90% difficulty could help reduce burnout? My experience is that working to recall something I'm on the verge of forgetting can be very effortful.
I experimented with this, actually. The default was 0.85 iirc, and I tried pushing it up over time to 0.91, but I ended up reducing it to 0.83. It isn't that many more cards, and it makes it far less laborious.
Fellow longtime Anki user, I can say letting myself drop from 0.9 to 0.85 was like letting myself experience the taste of clover honey for the first time. Accepting a slightly worse hit rato in exchange for 2/3rds the workload made life considerably more pleasant.