Hey folks, updated to FSRS about a month ago, things were going well, decided it was time to “optimize” so I did that. In addition, I selected Sunday as an “Easy Day” and selected a “reduced” workload. I did this on Saturday; I also downloaded the FSRS helper to enable the “Less Anki on Easy Days” → “Apply now” feature so I could have less cards yesterday (Sunday). That all worked like a charm. I’d say my reviews were decreased by 70%.
Unfortunately however, whereas I normally have 350-450 reviews per day, again today I only have around 150 reviews.
To be clear:
- Sunday is definitely the only “easy day” I have selected.
- I have no idea if the “FSRS helper” download & “apply easy days now” actions affected anything, I’m just stating all my tweaks.
- My Desired Retention after optimizing all presets went from 85% → 86%
I’m really not sure what to do; I understand that increasing my desired retention higher would increase my reviews, but still, a 70% decrease in reviews surely isn’t just expected tweaking of my algorithm, especially considering my desired retention went up, not down.
Would appreciate any help/advice y’all may have.