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Frankly, because at the volume I was running, it was far too great an investment of time. When I stopped, I had about 75-100 scheduled (learned) flashcards per day if I added nothing the day before, though I usually added 60-some every day. The cards would take me 1-2 hours, and the amount kept building as I was adding to it faster than I was pushing them "out".
Additionally, here our mileage may vary, but even with easy flashcards I occasionally find myself staring dumbly at it for ten or more seconds before I realize what it's asking and smack my head. So I end up trimming out the stupid-easy ones, but that starts to defeat the purpose. Thus, for myself personally, I won't duplicate in flashcards what I'm already memorizing elsewhere.
I know that everyone is different, so this is just my experience and what I have observed in other people. If others continue to have success with SRS, then far be it from me to insist they fix what isn't broken.
To me, that suggests that the card is either too complex and should be split up further, or that you simply do not have solid recall of the relevant facts, so you should just flip to the answer and mark the card difficult. It's quite normal to forget even some basic info over time; the point of SRS is to refresh these memories at the lowest viable cost.
I appreciate the input, truly, but I can confidently state that's not the case in my situation. This happens even on the simplest questions that I know cold, and is a problem with mental fatigue, monotony, and reading. After the 100th card, I would expect similar results from "what color is the sky" occasionally. I highly doubt I am dyslexic, but I might be a little ADHD. Once again, I do not presume everyone has similar results, but when I did 150 cards per day (and lord help me if I missed a day), easy cards posed a significant drain on my time and mental energy.
Interesting. If you get that kind of mental fatigue from reading, maybe flashcards really are relatively inefficient for you. If it turns out that dyslexia is the problem, there is an open source font that can help with that issue. Some people have set their SRS up to read questions aloud using computer-generated speech. But yes, most of the time it's a signal that you should take a break and perhaps switch to some other activty.
One thing that's relevant to this discussion is that the latest SRS versions can actually cope quite well with missed reviews. Yes, you'll still be presented with a backlog of suggestions, but the system gives you improved credit if you can recall a card easily even after the increased delay. Because that implies your memory of it was quite good in the first place, so it can be refreshed less often in the future.