Wish: avoid practicing words recently seen in context of other words

[Anna_Vernerova]

It often happens that words that share a context appear within the same practice session, which gives me “unfair” advantage when answering the latter prompt. I’d prefer if words seen in a context during a practice session were postponed until the next day, and ideally if their revision intervals were artificially forced to diverge over time.

[Steve]

This makes sense. I’ve had the same feeling before.

@Anna_Vernerova

ideally if their revision intervals were artificially forced to diverge over time.

One crude but potentially effective solution to this could be to add a slight random element to the scheduling (just +/- a couple of days or percentage points) so that they would diverge over time as you say.

[Anna_Vernerova]

@Steve

One crude but potentially effective solution to this could be to add a slight random element to the scheduling (just +/- a couple of days or percentage points) so that they would diverge over time as you say

That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking!

[Steve]

I’ve now done this. The intervals generated by the spaced repetition system will now have a random jitter applied somewhere in the range between -10% and +10%.