The Number One Advantage Of Litany Over Anki

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So this post is going to be about tooting my own horn. I mean I made this entire blog to toot my own horn, but I wanted to do it while giving useful information.

So I just recently had a cold. At least I think it was a cold and not COVID. Unless of course it was the shortest most mild case of Covid of all time. Which, I mean, I am pretty healthy and young (relatively speaking) so it is possible.

But anyways because of my cold I decided to take a break from my Anki review sessions. And this is when I found a critical problem with Anki. I mean I knew about this problem before, this is just the first time it has effected me.

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The Problem

So the problem is it generates cards to review every day whether or not you actually do a review session. Which, I mean, maybe some people like this feature. I do not. I find it incredibly annoying. Because now I have over a hundred cards to review whereas normally I’d have like 30–40.

And I know why Anki does this. Because it uses time stamps. I did too in version…