What Is FSRS? The Modern Spaced Repetition Algorithm Explained
FSRS stands for Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler. It is an open, free algorithm that decides when you should see each flashcard again. It has replaced …
FSRS stands for Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler. It is an open, free algorithm that decides when you should see each flashcard again. It has replaced …
Spaced repetition has a failure mode that has nothing to do with forgetting. The queue grows. You add twenty new cards a day, miss a few days, and …
Japanese difficulty is not spread evenly. Kana take a couple of weeks. Grammar arrives slowly but steadily. Kanji are the part that does not come for …
Spanish is one of the friendlier languages to start, and one of the easiest to plateau in. The early words arrive fast — cognates, greetings, the …
Hanzi are the part of Chinese that stops most learners. Vocabulary you can absorb from context, but characters you have to sit down and learn, stroke …
The phrase “FSRS vs Anki” hides a mismatch worth clearing up first: Anki is an app, and FSRS is a scheduling algorithm that Anki offers as …
Indonesian is often sold as one of the easiest languages for an English speaker, and the pitch is mostly true. There is no verb conjugation, no …
The default flashcard — English on one side, French on the other — works for about a week and then stops, because French vocabulary is not one word …
A 200-day streak feels like proof of something. It is proof of exactly one thing: that you opened the app 200 times. It does not tell you whether a …
Ask anyone who has tried to learn vocabulary with flashcards where they gave up, and you rarely hear “the algorithm was wrong.” You hear …
Most learners forget a new word within days of meeting it. That is not a personal failing — it is how human memory works. The good news is that the …