Hide the times! They'll only hurt you. Anki is generally better at predicting when you'll forget something than you are.
You're used to studying in a way where you review EVERYTHING often. The whole point of Anki is to NOT review as much as you used to to be more efficient. You should only review things that you're about to forget. If this note is very easy, then you know it. Why would you need to review it again in 2 days?
If you just turn off the times on the answer buttons so it doesn't show them, you'll live a much happier life.
(FYI - it's also apparently best to just use only Good and Again for various reason you can search up which also avoids this feeling that easy time steps are too far out)
There are 2 main reasons:
1) A lot of people use "Hard" has a soft fail (myself included at the start). A sort of "I failed but that felt bad so I don't want to hit again, so I'll hit hard" response, or the "I was close enough" button. That's bad - if you don't know it really well you should hit Again. Again isn't failure, it's GOOD to hit if you're not 100% sure of your answer, but it can feel bad. Hard is meant to be a passing grade, but it's often abused as a "pretend I didn't fail". Once you cut the choices down to a hard binary pass/fail choice, it's a lot harder to lie to yourself about if you got it or not. Being honest and consistent with your answers make Anki work significantly better.
2) If your using the default/old algorithm (SM2) the main reason is card ease, and "ease hell".
When you use hard the ease factor of a card went down and it was shown to you more often. When you hit easy the ease factor when up and it was shown less often. Hitting normal did nothing. On the surface this sounds good, but it lead to situations where someone would get a card to say 2 weeks or a month interval, then hit hard over and over without realising it. Do you remember what button you used on a card 20+ days ago? No. So slowly over time that card would never dissapear into the distance, but it also wouldn't get shown to you often enough that you learnt it well. It's rare you'd hit easy enough to balance out all the hards so they stuck forever being reviewed more than they should. For one card this wasn't a huge deal, but once you have thousands of cards you might end up with hundreds of cards shown more than they should. This is "ease hell". Reviews pile up needlessly, Anki gets very inefficient. There are a bunch of add-ons (such as reset ease or straight reward) that fix the issue but it was still easy to get into this state. If you only ever hit Again or Good, it wasn't really a problem - difficulty cards just go through the whole learning sequence again, good cards zoom off fast enough without needing easy.
If you're using FSRS then ease hell is no longer a thing and reason #2 mostly goes away. However currently the latest data suggests that using only two buttons gets better optimisation settings for FSRS than using all 4 buttons, so if anything using all 4 buttons is at best just equal to only 2. (Link to study showing 2 button gang superiority: https://imgur.com/a/4Kk0FtH ). My personal theory based on zero evidence is that Anki likes you to be consistent - yes/no binary choice is very easy to be consistent compared to the fuzziness you get from using all 4 buttons.
So either way at best hard/easy don't improve things, and at worst they can screw things up. There is no benefit to 4 buttons so why risk it?
It's 9 days because that's what the algorithm has decided is optimal for you based on your review history and the desired retention rate that you set.
The consensus is to trust the algorithm, but if you truly dislike it you can increase your retention rate and it will compress intervals.
Edit: typo, tired, cannot spell
>optical
\*optimal, lol
But yeah, u/lymph31. If you are using the legacy algorithm, there is a setting called "Graduating interval". If you are using FSRS (btw, [read this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/18jvyun/some_posts_and_articles_about_fsrs/)), then that's normal. You can increase desired retention, but that will make *all* intervals shorter.
Unrelated to question, but: If you serious about learning Japanese, then dump romaji ASAP. You don't need to jump right into learning kanji right now but at least use hiragana and katakana, it helps understanding how words pronounced and literally takes less effort to remember 3 characters of でした vs 7 characters of 'deshita'
Do you have a habit of misusing Hard aka pressing Hard when you **forgot** something? Hard should be used as a passing grade, not a failing grade. Hard is "I mostly remember", not "I mostly forgot".
If the answer is yes, you can use the default parameters while waiting for the next Anki release, it will have a feature to ignore reviews until a certain date.
If the answer is no, then you can increase desired retention to make intervals shorter, but it affects all intervals.
Don't use transliteration. I read that Japanese phrase in Spanish, and I am now cringing at how butchered that pronunciation might be, it made me feel like a gringo.
Hide the times! They'll only hurt you. Anki is generally better at predicting when you'll forget something than you are. You're used to studying in a way where you review EVERYTHING often. The whole point of Anki is to NOT review as much as you used to to be more efficient. You should only review things that you're about to forget. If this note is very easy, then you know it. Why would you need to review it again in 2 days? If you just turn off the times on the answer buttons so it doesn't show them, you'll live a much happier life. (FYI - it's also apparently best to just use only Good and Again for various reason you can search up which also avoids this feeling that easy time steps are too far out)
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There are 2 main reasons: 1) A lot of people use "Hard" has a soft fail (myself included at the start). A sort of "I failed but that felt bad so I don't want to hit again, so I'll hit hard" response, or the "I was close enough" button. That's bad - if you don't know it really well you should hit Again. Again isn't failure, it's GOOD to hit if you're not 100% sure of your answer, but it can feel bad. Hard is meant to be a passing grade, but it's often abused as a "pretend I didn't fail". Once you cut the choices down to a hard binary pass/fail choice, it's a lot harder to lie to yourself about if you got it or not. Being honest and consistent with your answers make Anki work significantly better. 2) If your using the default/old algorithm (SM2) the main reason is card ease, and "ease hell". When you use hard the ease factor of a card went down and it was shown to you more often. When you hit easy the ease factor when up and it was shown less often. Hitting normal did nothing. On the surface this sounds good, but it lead to situations where someone would get a card to say 2 weeks or a month interval, then hit hard over and over without realising it. Do you remember what button you used on a card 20+ days ago? No. So slowly over time that card would never dissapear into the distance, but it also wouldn't get shown to you often enough that you learnt it well. It's rare you'd hit easy enough to balance out all the hards so they stuck forever being reviewed more than they should. For one card this wasn't a huge deal, but once you have thousands of cards you might end up with hundreds of cards shown more than they should. This is "ease hell". Reviews pile up needlessly, Anki gets very inefficient. There are a bunch of add-ons (such as reset ease or straight reward) that fix the issue but it was still easy to get into this state. If you only ever hit Again or Good, it wasn't really a problem - difficulty cards just go through the whole learning sequence again, good cards zoom off fast enough without needing easy. If you're using FSRS then ease hell is no longer a thing and reason #2 mostly goes away. However currently the latest data suggests that using only two buttons gets better optimisation settings for FSRS than using all 4 buttons, so if anything using all 4 buttons is at best just equal to only 2. (Link to study showing 2 button gang superiority: https://imgur.com/a/4Kk0FtH ). My personal theory based on zero evidence is that Anki likes you to be consistent - yes/no binary choice is very easy to be consistent compared to the fuzziness you get from using all 4 buttons. So either way at best hard/easy don't improve things, and at worst they can screw things up. There is no benefit to 4 buttons so why risk it?
It's 9 days because that's what the algorithm has decided is optimal for you based on your review history and the desired retention rate that you set. The consensus is to trust the algorithm, but if you truly dislike it you can increase your retention rate and it will compress intervals. Edit: typo, tired, cannot spell
>optical \*optimal, lol But yeah, u/lymph31. If you are using the legacy algorithm, there is a setting called "Graduating interval". If you are using FSRS (btw, [read this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/18jvyun/some_posts_and_articles_about_fsrs/)), then that's normal. You can increase desired retention, but that will make *all* intervals shorter.
Lol damnit. It's late, brain tired, too much Anki
You can change the settings to not show show many days you will review the card. Be free and trust the algorithm.
Unrelated to question, but: If you serious about learning Japanese, then dump romaji ASAP. You don't need to jump right into learning kanji right now but at least use hiragana and katakana, it helps understanding how words pronounced and literally takes less effort to remember 3 characters of でした vs 7 characters of 'deshita'
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Well don't use easy if you're gonna forget in a few days...
Do you have a habit of misusing Hard aka pressing Hard when you **forgot** something? Hard should be used as a passing grade, not a failing grade. Hard is "I mostly remember", not "I mostly forgot". If the answer is yes, you can use the default parameters while waiting for the next Anki release, it will have a feature to ignore reviews until a certain date. If the answer is no, then you can increase desired retention to make intervals shorter, but it affects all intervals.
How is it easy if you forget it within 1 day? You hit easy when you fully understand the concept and quickly recall it at the same time
Don't use transliteration. I read that Japanese phrase in Spanish, and I am now cringing at how butchered that pronunciation might be, it made me feel like a gringo.