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(Anki post) Auto Ease Factor with Japanese learning?

[https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1672712021](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1672712021)

Discovered this Anki add on, seems extremely interesting, but didn’t find anyone learning Japanese talking about it. As I understand it, it adjusts the ease of your cards so that you settle in to your ideal retention rate over time.

I’ve done a couple hundred hours of Anki at this point, so I’m a little afraid to install it and potentially mess up my current ease.

Just wondering if there was anyone here with experience (good or bad) with this add on.

2 comments

  2. Absolutely would not recommend it.

    I tried it for a couple of months, and some of the values it produced were astonishingly bad. I just couldn’t tell until a couple of months later. Cards I got wrong a lot at the beginning but then “got” them later felt like there were stuck in ease hell by the end. Other cards I could just baaaaaaarely remember, but had a high success rate on, got thrown years into the future.

    If you want something like this addon, but which actually bases its assessment of your cards on your performance of each individual card, you might want to look into FSRS:

    https://reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/zncitr/how_to_use_the_nextgeneration_spaced_repetition/

    I probably wouldn’t have even bothered trying this if Auto Ease Factor didn’t ruin my deck to the point where I thought it was going to have to delete half of my cards. FSRS (+FSRS4Anki Helper) saved my deck, hands down. I don’t know if it’s from Auto Ease Factor, but when I first ran this I had a very large backlog of cards due. After clearing them, however, I can say that in my own experience FSRS does exactly what it claims, and what I had hoped the addon you linked would do in the first place.

    Basically don’t use Auto Ease Factor. Stock Anki is good enough, FSRS is fantastic though it takes some effort to put it into place and optimize (though apparently the guy who makes Anki is planning to incorporate FSRS as a built-in option in the future). If you want a simple solution I’d highly suggest the addon “Straight Reward” which was working perfectly for me before I thought I’d be slick and use Auto Ease Factor to beat anki at it’s own game, which backfired spectacularly.

    In any case, best of luck in your future Japanese studies

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