Question about pacing, as well as some strategies I use that have been helpful so far

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@catagon

Am I eventually going to just hit a point where I have 500+ reviews a day and it implodes in on itself? Or is the system designed in such a way that you naturally move items to new tiers in the SRS at a rate where there’s a “terminal velocity” so to speak and you cannot go beyond a certain number of daily reviews?

The good news is because of the doubling of time per review at higher intervals, unless your accuracy is very bad, you will heat peak workload around level 20 if going full speed.

See this diagram from the ultimate guide

I do this near the end of my current level (usually when the last kanji are two days away from Guru). I study the new deck(s) for two days, then toss them and do the lessons for those kanji in WK (through browser).

This may have a negative impact on your longer term retention, as Wanikani will assess those kanji as having been remembered with a 2 day interval since last seeing them but actually it’s only been hours.

@catagon

Overall I’m finding that WK by itself is not enough. I’d easily forget these in the months leading to burn if I’m not seeing them used in sentences. I can’t stress that enough. Even if you struggle like hell, you have to at least pull up something like NHK to practice what you’re learning.

I think you are sort of confusing the system by doing your extra outside SRS in the run up to the final apprentice review, but broadly this point is true anyway.