by Ernie » Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:18 pm
In Spaced Rep (SR), the cards will show up after a timed interval (e.g. 3 days). This interval will increase and decrease depending on your answer. When studying Active cards, you can see the current interval and what the new interval will be depending on your answer at the bottom of the screen.
SR has a feature where you learn New cards 10 at a time. (You can change this to 20, for example if you like). After getting a card correct 3 times in a row, it will become after and start getting scheduled. This seems to be what you described... get familiar with a card, then have start getting scheduled in SR. When you tap your deck, it will ask if you want to study new cards, or study cards that are due.
In cards to study, I would not change the defaults, which are "All", "All", "No", OFF. Yes, setting steak to "<=0" will only show cards you haven't gotten correct. These options are not really suited for SR. (The are better suited for the other card order options.) I would recommend leaving these as their default settings and let the SR process do it's thing. SR is fairly simple... all cards start as pending... add cards to a 10 card new deck... after 3 correct from the new deck move card to "active". Active cards are scheduled based on their interval and are tested again when due (their interval is up).
"Now I guess what I'm confused about here is that if I don't set the streak to a certain minimum (is it 3?) then they will never enter the spaced rep algorithm." The default is "All" which means don't add any additional filtering/limiting of the cards. If you set show streak to "<=3", then once a streak gets above 3 the card is removed from study. This is not what you want.
Once you are a little more familiar with SR, you might want to look at the SR settings. I have more info about SR here if you love to read:
http://orangeorapple.com/Flashcards/AboutSR.aspxErnie
In Spaced Rep (SR), the cards will show up after a timed interval (e.g. 3 days). This interval will increase and decrease depending on your answer. When studying Active cards, you can see the current interval and what the new interval will be depending on your answer at the bottom of the screen.
SR has a feature where you learn New cards 10 at a time. (You can change this to 20, for example if you like). After getting a card correct 3 times in a row, it will become after and start getting scheduled. This seems to be what you described... get familiar with a card, then have start getting scheduled in SR. When you tap your deck, it will ask if you want to study new cards, or study cards that are due.
In cards to study, I would not change the defaults, which are "All", "All", "No", OFF. Yes, setting steak to "<=0" will only show cards you haven't gotten correct. These options are not really suited for SR. (The are better suited for the other card order options.) I would recommend leaving these as their default settings and let the SR process do it's thing. SR is fairly simple... all cards start as pending... add cards to a 10 card new deck... after 3 correct from the new deck move card to "active". Active cards are scheduled based on their interval and are tested again when due (their interval is up).
"Now I guess what I'm confused about here is that if I don't set the streak to a certain minimum (is it 3?) then they will never enter the spaced rep algorithm." The default is "All" which means don't add any additional filtering/limiting of the cards. If you set show streak to "<=3", then once a streak gets above 3 the card is removed from study. This is not what you want.
Once you are a little more familiar with SR, you might want to look at the SR settings. I have more info about SR here if you love to read:
[url]http://orangeorapple.com/Flashcards/AboutSR.aspx[/url]
Ernie