Is there any spaced repetition system that doesn't require me to tweak a bunch of parameters to get good results? I would love if it could just learn how I learn and adjust accordingly. I want to be able to pop in 4x a day or just once or just skip some days and have it adjust accordingly, instead of just leaving me with a huge back log.
It’s not perfect but current SuperMemo is more flexible than default Anki. It feels less punishing, you do not have to tweak it, and you can prioritize what you think is more important to learn (but I don’t use this function).
Still the basic idea is you should show up regularly, but sometimes I had to skip a couple of days and could get back on track by just doing my average number of repetitions plus 20% or something of the like for a while.
A big problem in general comes from the fact that an SRS is a big investment of time and people will get extremely defensive to “protect their investment”. It’s very difficult to get fair comparisons and good recommendations, I almost never got to try SuperMemo because I was just reading comments of defensive Anki users.
I would love to use SuperMemo but the fact that it's Windows-only and does not have mobile apps are dealbreakers for me. nearly all of my reviews happen on mobile these days.
> or just skip some days and have it adjust accordingly, instead of just leaving me with a huge back log.
Unfortunately memory does not work that way. You can't just put a pause on forgetting (if we could we wouldn't need spaced repetition in the first place). The backlog will continue to grow because memory degrades over time (without review). The backlog simply represents the cards that have a less than X% chance of being recalled (where X is usually 80-90%).
