How to study enlightened items

[prouleau]

Self Study would work fine for your purpose.

• you create a new preset with the new button in the items tab and call it enlightened.
• you turn on the srs level filter and select enlightened.
• you set the maximum quiz size to 20 or whatever the number is.

This last step will cause Self Study to pickup 20 random enlightened items and quiz you on them. Every session different random items will be picked.

I wouldn’t worry about long term memory. Scientific research has found that the more often you have seen an item the better the retention.

There is no such thing as cheating yourself in SRS

First: what is this thread about? Well, something I’ve seen regularly posted in the WK forums is that doing any reviews outside of the scheduled ones will actively harm your learning, which sounded strange to me. I spent much of today delving into research of the field, and the post below is my findings. There will be a tl;dr at the end of the post. Let me give a disclaimer. I don’t do research in this area, nor do I know anyone that does. This is primarily just what I got from reading two meta…

The key is not to study just before the review. I suggest you install the additional filters script and turn on the time until review filter. This will make sure items close to the review date won’t be quizzed on.