Hello everyone, WK has been very beneficial in the short time I have used it, and I plan to continue using it for years to come. My only question thus far is when to start new lessons. For instance, I believe I’m at level 8 now, and it’s keeping me busy. While I continue to score pretty well on reviews, I have been reluctant to start new items for fear of becoming overwhelmed with information. My gut would tell me to wait until I feel my reviews are comfortably locked in, but I also understand that SRS is formulated to feed new info when it thinks you’re ready. So, do I jump on new lessons when they are available, wait until I complete the current level, etc.?
I’d say commit to a certain amount of new items a day. (5 lessons, 10 lessons, whatever you’re comfortable with). That way you won’t get bunches of reviews coming back later, and it should create a stable amount of reviews.
This isn’t really the case. An SRS system will show you reviews when it thinks you need to see them, but there isn’t a mechanism that tries to track when new items (lessons) should be added into it (beyond, in the WK case, the basic level and unlocking system – but that sets a maximum pace, rather than necessarily an appropriate pace). So you have to figure out for yourself a pace of adding lessons that works for you and gives you a review workload you’re comfortable with. It’s probably better to be consistent rather than doing a lot of lessons some days and fewer lessons the next, to avoid big ups and downs in the number of reviews in future as a “bulge” of items resulting from those lessons makes its way through the system.
The three approaches that seem to be popular judging by forum posts are:
(1) do a fixed number of lessons each day
(2) have a target number of items in Apprentice and don’t do new lessons when above that number. (The Apprentice count is a rough proxy for number of reviews in the near future.)
(3) follow the speed run strategies, where you do lessons on the fastest possible pace and accept that that means a massive number of reviews as a consequence. (Don’t do this unless you know what you’re letting yourself in for )
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