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Comment author: ChristianKl 02 May 2016 03:43:36PM 1 point [-]

The thing is, different levels of availability require different rehearsal commitments. I've not seen any explicit support for varied automaticity goals in Anki or the other spaced repetition programs I've played with. The best I can do is try to decide on a review-by-review basis whether I should set the next interval of a given card more conservatively than suggested.

For normal Anki learning I think the solution is having redundancy in cards. I'm at the moment learning anatomy and I have lots of cards for every muscle and bone. I have graphics from different angles. I have cards asking for holonyms.

Comment author: moridinamael 02 May 2016 04:53:25PM *  3 points [-]

Along these lines, I have embraced the power of Cloze deletion. I have no problem with keeping all of the following cards in rotation:

The [...] is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a [...] in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which [...] suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons [...].

Even if I don't actually care about memorizing the wording verbatim, breaking the information up this way forces me to learn the information in a sort of "anisotropic" fashion.

edit: Also, yes, at least two of these cards would be dead-easy, practically already known before I saw them even once, but seeing the information "too much" at the start can help push you over the initial hump.

Comment author: tanagrabeast 03 May 2016 12:31:22AM 0 points [-]

It should be noted that how the cloze cards play out changes greatly depending on whether you allow different cards of the same note to show up on the same day. One version gives you that early overload effect, while the other gives a kind of extended familiarity effect where for months you'll probably have at least one variation of that cloze come up every day or two. The more variations on a note, the longer this stretches out.

The problem in Anki, at least, is that this is a global deck setting ("Bury related reviews until the next day") and not one you can customize for individual notes. Maybe I should start organizing decks by desired automaticity levels rather than by content.

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