This past weekend I added an extra filter to my main cram deck.  It used to be “rated:2:1” to which I’ve added “prop:reps<70”.  This makes sure that I’m not spending too much time studying cards which are probably going to end up being leeches anyway.  When I added this filter, my cram deck went from 66 cards to 55 which is a 17% reduction.  When I consider that about half of my time is spent cramming, I estimate I can spend 8.5% more time studying cards more likely to stick in my memory.  Hopefully that translates to me being able to add more cards.

Two weekends ago, I consolidated my sentence deck with my vocabulary deck and updated the combined deck to optimal order.  Unfortunately, since I had an overlap between them I ended up with duplicate cards and that threw off my card count for progress tracking.  I’ll eventually figure it out, but It’s hard to keep track of my progress for now.  Fortunately with the new order, the cards I’ve added in the last week have been easier to remember, so I’ve been adding more than normal.

I’m also considering adding sentences (and maybe audio recognition) to the mix again now that I’ve synchronized vocab and sentences.  I won’t have the problem I had before where sentences contained a lot of unknown vocabulary.  *edit:  I’ve unsuspended 77 sentence cards as a test.  I used Anki’s reschedule function to set their initial interval to 30-60 days.  That means that I will only see 2-4 at a time, so (hopefully) it won’t set my vocab study back at all.  And if I answer it correctly, I won’t see it again for 3 or 4 months.  If this works out as expected, I’ll filter in more sentences this what until I’m adding sentence cards along with their sibling vocabulary cards.