“Load calculator” to determine study pace?

Bunpro
#1

One of the most common threads is: is my commitment sustainable? Will this lead to burnout?

As it stands, without a sense of how lessons per day converts to daily workload when all the SRS levels come due, people either figure it out through trial and error or quit from burnout.

I wonder if Bunpro could run analysis to make an estimator. If you do x new lessons per day, what will your daily workload be in 1, 3 and 6 months? It could be based on average accuracy rates and with ghosts turned on.

That would help people calibrate their starting pace and not get a rude awakening at later intervals.

I’m speaking as a very busy person who eventually learned to eventually do 5 words a day on WaniKani, 1 lesson every third day or so on Bunpro. That pace has been great for three years now without burnout, but if I hadn’t been cautious in figuring it out along the way I would have hit major overload.

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#2

If I remember correctly there is an addon for Anki for this. It’d be a great addition in Bunpro!

#3

Generally, the number of reviews will eventually climb to something like Nd*Ns/A where Nd is number of new items added per day, Ns is number of SRS stages, and A is your average accuracy. This is universal for all SRS based apps. The actual load may be different because 2 out of 3 variables can change over time, even from day to day. So consider healthy amount of safety margin.

For Bunpro Ns=12, so lets say you want to have 200 reviews per day, your accuracy is usually 85%, than means… Nd=200*0.85/12 = 14 With some margin, you can have 10 new items every day.

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