I’ve had an off-and-on relationship with WK since I started. Here are a few tips I’ve learned:
- Don’t burn yourself out. Do a reasonable amount of reviews every day and don’t do any lessons until you clear the queue. (For me, reasonable is however many reviews would become due within 24 hours once you’re done with them for today)
- Keep track of how many days in a row you’ve practiced. You’d be surprised how motivating “not breaking the streak” can be.
- Use a review reordering script (I use this one) to sort reviews by level. It ruins the SRS somewhat, but it makes it so that you don’t have the same items popping up repeatedly over and over until you’re more caught up, which keeps the queue more manageable. Just be sure to switch it back to normal once you are caught up.
- This is just a general WK tip, not specific to a large backlog, but make it so you can focus. Turn your phone on silent, no TV or YouTube in the background, and only use music if it helps you focus.
As far as keeping that momentum going and continuing to stay caught up, I don’t really have a perfect answer. My current strategy is to use a visual indicator of my streak in a prominent place I’ll keep seeing it to remind me to study. (For me, that’s using this habit tracker’s “history” widget on my phone’s home screen.) It seems to be working so far, but it’s still too early to tell for sure.
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