This image represents my understanding of SRS (as Sebastian Leitner devised it.):
You only EVER test yourself on the cards in column P-1. New cards go to Box1 and if you get a card right in any row, it goes to the right-most P-n of the row below it (Box5 cards gotten right go to the Archive and are not involved in any more testing.)
If you get a card wrong in any row, it goes back to the Box1 row.
The thing that makes this SRS the 'spaced' part of it is this: you choose your interval and then the computer moves all the cards in each row one P-n column to the left. So if your interval is 3-days, then the next time you start your program, if 3 days has elapsed, the computer goes through and moves the cards of each column, one column to the left. [it's nice to keep a limit on how many cards can sit in P-1 so I like to let them back up in P-2 and be moved from there oldest-first and only enough to put a maximum of 30 in P-1. Box1 cannot be limited because all wrong cards must go there. I also like having an option for on-demand moving instead of a fixed interval.] [I also like an option to purge Box1 and all of the P-2s of any excess over 30 cards, newest-first, putting them back in the archive.]
In other words: if you get a card right 1 time, you will see it again after one interval. If you get it right a second time in a row, you will see it again after 4 more intervals. If you get it right a third time in a row, you will see it again after 7 more intervals. Then 13 intervals and then it's archived.
There are other nice things to do like taking cards from the Archive (oldest first) and filling Box1 to a maximum of 30 cards. (I have read in several places that 30 is a good limit for one study session.) New cards added to the collection can go to Box1 or to the Archive as the user prefers.
[With three sides, there are six ways to study and each way is tracked indepently, according to the above.]
I know that all of this is feasible because I started with an open-source program on the CodeProject and created exactly this.
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So my question becomes: what Pleco Flashcard settings will get me as close as possible to my understanding of SRS?
If I have to export cards from Pleco (which is an outstanding study aid in any event,) there are a number of incompatibilities in card content I will have to resolve.
You only EVER test yourself on the cards in column P-1. New cards go to Box1 and if you get a card right in any row, it goes to the right-most P-n of the row below it (Box5 cards gotten right go to the Archive and are not involved in any more testing.)
If you get a card wrong in any row, it goes back to the Box1 row.
The thing that makes this SRS the 'spaced' part of it is this: you choose your interval and then the computer moves all the cards in each row one P-n column to the left. So if your interval is 3-days, then the next time you start your program, if 3 days has elapsed, the computer goes through and moves the cards of each column, one column to the left. [it's nice to keep a limit on how many cards can sit in P-1 so I like to let them back up in P-2 and be moved from there oldest-first and only enough to put a maximum of 30 in P-1. Box1 cannot be limited because all wrong cards must go there. I also like having an option for on-demand moving instead of a fixed interval.] [I also like an option to purge Box1 and all of the P-2s of any excess over 30 cards, newest-first, putting them back in the archive.]
In other words: if you get a card right 1 time, you will see it again after one interval. If you get it right a second time in a row, you will see it again after 4 more intervals. If you get it right a third time in a row, you will see it again after 7 more intervals. Then 13 intervals and then it's archived.
There are other nice things to do like taking cards from the Archive (oldest first) and filling Box1 to a maximum of 30 cards. (I have read in several places that 30 is a good limit for one study session.) New cards added to the collection can go to Box1 or to the Archive as the user prefers.
[With three sides, there are six ways to study and each way is tracked indepently, according to the above.]
I know that all of this is feasible because I started with an open-source program on the CodeProject and created exactly this.
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So my question becomes: what Pleco Flashcard settings will get me as close as possible to my understanding of SRS?
If I have to export cards from Pleco (which is an outstanding study aid in any event,) there are a number of incompatibilities in card content I will have to resolve.