Dealing with Leeches - Control-Alt-Backspace
One of the foundational principles of spaced repetition is separating easy cards from hard cards. We can then review the easy cards rarely and the hard cards more often. This is great.
18 minute read One of the foundational principles of spaced repetition is separating easy cards from hard cards. We can then review the easy cards rarely and the hard cards more often. This is great. Unfortunately, some cards are not just hard, but really hard, so hard that if we don’t do something about them, we can keep forgetting and relearning them over and over again, causing them to consume a ridiculous amount of our study time while providing little benefit. The spaced-repetition community calls these extremely difficult cards leeches because they suck away your study time. Anki…
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