Hi, is there any way to put some kind of a maximum limit on the number of words that can be up for review? It's not so fun when you take 2 days off and have like 2000 words up for review. Obviously, there is no way you can review that amount of words in one day, but still, failing to clear all words, then seeing even more pile up the next day is really depressing and feels like a failure and like that your never is going to get done.

It would be great if you could set a limit (that you could chose yourself), like 300 words. When you reach the limit, no more words can be added, and reviews that are due gets pushed back until you have finished those 300 words.

Also, if would be cool if you could have words being added daily or at your chosen time, instead of them being added automatically as soon as you are down to 0 words up for review.

It would be great if you could have some message saying
"Great job, you are done for the day! Would you like to add more words?"

And if you want to keep studying after already finishing your daily routine, the next 50 words in que would be added.

Sure, there is that "save me" button, but that feels like cheating and it would be much more fun if you could get that "phew, Im done for the day, now I can relax" feeling.

SRS unfortunately cannot really push off items for review. Items are due when they are due and to hide them would be misleading. The way you describe it working, in terms of pushing off the next 300 words, would not change how the system works underneath. Simply study 300 items, stop, and do another 300 tomorrow, until the review queue is done. The system you describe would work for you, but it's not necessarily how others would want it to work, or expect it to work, and so could cause confusion.

To add words at your chosen time, or have more control like that, you can use the + button to the right of the review/added bars in the upper left corner of the study page.

We'd rather have the system be fluid and not get in your way with messages like saying that you've finished reviewing. Basically the page is built to just let you review for as long as you want to review. Some people might want to stop when they're done with reviews, but others might want to stop after so many minutes, or just keep on studying beyond what is scheduled for however long they feel like. Having no overt system to be defined before studying keeps the startup cost low so you can just jump right in and get going.

The save me button is the best thing for you it sounds like. Really the system you describe is just save me in another form; either way you're making a cosmetic difference that does not change when would in reality be the optimal for you to study. Skritter has no power over changing when you're actually going to forget something outside of giving you more reviews. But if you want 300 reviews per day, then use save me over the next 7 days. That will roughly leave you with 300 to do per day over that period.

Hope that helps!

Sounds a bit like you're wanting Skritter to work like Anki where you can control the number of reviews allowed per day. It also gives you a nice message when you're finished. Is that what you're comparing it to?

Scott used the word fluid, but I would describe Skritter as a continuous test which always has something for you to study if you have the time.

If you want that "finished for the day" feeling I suggest changing your goals. You could opt to study for 40 minutes or until the queue is down to zero (whichever comes first). However, just because the queue is at zero doesn't mean you should stop studying. To keep your queue from piling up 2000 things to review when taking two days off then over study frequently. This will help spread reviews out better and is less like cheating than using the save me option.

If you're getting 2000 things for two days of no study you should seriously think about getting it down to more manageable levels. In the short term you could reduce the target memorisation percentage (eg from 95% to 90%), and also reduce the type of prompts you are studying (eg, ditch definitions).

Lowering the target retention rate is good. Other than that, just don't worry about being so far from 0 items to review. I took a while off Skrittering once, and after coming back there was a period of weeks when I couldn't actually see the reviews going down (appeared to be stuck at 3000). In reality, though, I was making steady progress, and eventually got down to reasonable numbers.