How does the vacation mode works?

Bunpro
#1

Hi as title, how does the vacation mode work? During the vacation, am I able to do review? What will it impact?

#2

Hi, I’m just a fellow user, so don’t take what I say as being the ultimate truth. But last time I used vacation mode, it just literally froze everything. So you can’t do reviews without exiting vacation mode. Things like your streak will remain constant until you exit vacation mode, at which point you pick up where you left off. Basically, you can only look, not touch :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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#3

I believe the above to be true. Because of that, and the fact that “expert” intervals are so long, I tend to not turn it on (unless you care about your streak). I was away on vacation for six weeks and only had about 250 cards when I got back. It only took an afternoon or two to get caught up again, and having a bulk review session like that was nice.

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#4

Streak won’t remain constant, if you use vacation mode, you will lose your streak. It just pauses when items become due, so you don’t come back to 7000 review items when you return from your real life vacation.

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#5

So has it changed recently?
Because when I have used vacation mode, my streak has remained constant.

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#6

No, I think you’re right.
It even says in the settings, " Please note that your streak WILL be preserved."

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#7

apparently they changed it back in 2020, so you are right

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#8

Thanks all for the info. But what happen when you enable the vacation mode during the day then when at night there is some free time to review and disable the vacation mode. When does the vacation mode reset and will it review stop piling from the hour it was set on vacation mode or by the day where it reset?

#9

So it literally puts everything on pause.
The SRS times will stop where they are.
So lets say you had a review due in 2 hours, but you put BunPro on vacation mode.
It will still remain at 2 hours until it is due when you turn vacation mode off.
It doesn’t matter how much time passes while your vacation mode is on.

Think of it more like pausing a movie. The movie isn’t going to skip to the end once you press resume. It will play from exactly where you paused it.

Hopefully that helps a bit

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#10

Thanks :+1: