I don't get too much time to study in the week - work gets in the way. But I see the easy characters I already knew and added this weekend are all scheduled to be reviewed in a week. Does this mean I'm going to have a chunk of easy characters to review every weekend or does the spacing get longer than a week after I've got them correct more than once?

Currently, it's set to a week when you get something right the first time. If you get it right the next time, it will more than double the next review interval (with some randomness), and grow very quickly from there. So as long as you keep getting it right, you shouldn't see a character that you already knew very often at all.

Scott's done a lot of work on the scheduling, so you may not see even the initial week cluster after the update.

Were I you, though, I'd try to squeeze in a little practice time during the week -- even if you spent 5% as long each weekday as you did each weekend day, it would probably increase your learning efficiency significantly.

That scheduling sounds pretty reasonable. I think it's really important to keep the new characters coming, even when there's a bunch that you're getting wrong. I think I saw another post were one of you guys mentioned that was planned.

There are so many connections between the characters that seeing more characters helps you distinguish what's different and what's shared between similar looking characters. That can help memorise two related characters where you wouldn't so easily memorise a single one.

For example I was having trouble with the right part of 外, writing 匕 instead of 卜. But then I saw 死 and thought ah! the bottom part's just a 外, and soon realised my mistake. Those kind of connections don't happen unless you get the steady stream of new characters, which also keeps things interesting.

What I'm trying to say I think is that I'm looking forward to trying the new scheduling.

I'll see about getting some practice in during the week. I do tend to do what you're not meant to do and do big chunks at once. Another part of my Chinese learning style thus far is not worrying about learning things 100%, I just keep going and don't think about it too much. Skritter might just incentivise me enough to change this as now I'll know what I know.