Do you complete all the unsuspended cards associated with 3rd party stuff you watched on that day?

[Doctoscope]

Say you watch 3 sketchy videos and 1 B&B video on pharm related to your in-house lectures for that day. Do you suspend all those cards and complete all of them on that day, or do you space them out throughout the week? Some days it's 100 new, others 300-400 new.

I'm hearing conflicting things, with some saying you should, and others saying it's counterproductive/won't be sustainable and stick to a set # of new cards a day. Just wondering what the optimal Anki strategy is.

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[Hollow Knight]

I did the first option. I assume you're doing third party along with your classes and not just randomly.

Plus, if you don't reinforce what you just watched, you'll forget it before you get to those cards. As someone who used to get paid to teach college students how to study, I do not understand how option 2 could ever be a good idea......

With the obvious caveat that you can't do 1,000 cards a day. If that happens stop watching so many videos at once.

 

[Doctoscope]

I did the first option. I assume you're doing third party along with your classes and not just randomly.

Plus, if you don't reinforce what you just watched, you'll forget it before you get to those cards. As someone who used to get paid to teach college students how to study, I do not understand how option 2 could ever be a good idea......

With the obvious caveat that you can't do 1,000 cards a day. If that happens stop watching so many videos at once.

How many new cards were you averaging per day? Did you feel like it was sustainable for a year?

 

[Hollow Knight]

How many new cards were you averaging per day? Did you feel like it was sustainable for a year?

So I had 30 hours a week of mandatory class (not sitting in a lecture hall doing Anki. I had to give presentations/etc the whole time) in a 1.5-year preclinical curriculum.

I probably did like 400 reviews at first and then 2-400 news a day?

Towards the end of M1 year I was doing like 800 reviews a day. That was too much. But part of feeling overwhelmed was having to go waste time sitting in class.

I fell off the Anki train because my (soon-to be) ex wife told me to only study 40 hours a week and I foolishly listened to her. But I was doing very well in school before that marriage haha.

If you’re disciplined it’s doable. Plus, you don’t have to mature the whole deck. Just do what your school covers. And pathoma and sketchy.

 

[Billiam95]

Echo above - just go ahead and knock them all out at once on the day you watch the video...shouldn't take too too long if you just watched the content and you'll avoid new cards backing up.