bushbo

My approach to studying Kanji with paper flash cards and boxes. I have given up studying with Anki, primarily since I work most of the day with a computer and wanted a method that didn't involve a computer. Old school style.

* Every day, I test every card in box one. If I don't get through them all...whatever, I can put them off 'till the next day. When I add new cards to my set, I put them in box one to be tested the next day.

* Box two has three separators in it. Every day, I take the front-most separator, and move it to the back. I'm allowed to test on any card that's in the front-most section. When I move cards into this box, I put them in the back-most section. This'll give a 3 day delay between box 1 and box 2.

* Boxes 3 and above are relatively regular. Each of them have two separators. Whenever I advance a card into a box, I put it in the back-most section. The schedule of rotations (moving the front-most separator to the back) for each box is as follows: Every saturday: rotate box 3
1st and 3rd saturday of the month: rotate box 4
1st saturday of the month: rotate box 5
1st saturday of odd months: rotate box 6
etc.

This guarantees between a 1-2 week period for box 3....a 2-4 week period for box 4, a 4-8 week period for box 5, etc. Sure it's a little inexact, but it enforces n expiration based on time passing, and can never be more than double the ideal time. Having all rotations except box 1 and 2 on Saturdays means that I don't need to worry about it through the week. One key point is that, except for box 1, only the cards in the front-most section (in front of any separators) of each box have expired, and are ready to be tested.