>>13571758The only things you need to know before mucking around with settings are
>what are intervals>what are steps>what's the difference between a Learning card and a Review cardAn interval is the amount of time before you see a card again, and steps are fixed intervals before a Learning card becomes a Review card.
My pic shows Anki decks' default settings. I'll go through what I consider the most important options.
Don't forget, you can apply different settings to individual decks.
>NEW CARDS (leftmost window)>Steps (in minutes): 1 10This means after you answer a new card correctly, you'll see it again in 1 minute. If you answer it correctly again, you'll see it in 10 minutes, and if you answer it correctly again, it graduates into a Review card and its interval is set to the Graduating Interval.
If you answer incorrectly at any step before graduating, the card returns to the first step.
You can have more than 2 steps, and some people use longer intervals here before graduating. I use 1 7 1440 2880 (1440 minutes = 1 day), so my final step before graduating new cards is a 2 day interval. Some people set their final step to a week or even longer.
>New cards/dayThis can have a huge impact on your time and retention. Unless you're already very familiar with the material or don't mind spending a lot more time in reviews, I strongly recommend keeping this number lower (in the single digits).
>REVIEWS (center window)>Maximum reviews/dayI just have this at 9999, the highest possible. It hasn't impacted me at all. If you set a max, you're just handicapping the scheduling algorithm.
If you ever have a problem with spending too much time on reviews, that's a lagging indicator of too many New Cards/Day.
>Interval modifier: 100%When you answer a Review card correctly, its new interval is calculated as
where c is the current interval and m is the Interval Modifier.
So a lower modifier = more frequent reviews, and vice versa.
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