So right now I’m kinda demotivated to keep my reviews (especially theres like 200) and lesson. So maybe some sort of streak like duolingo could make it feels rewarding. Yeah that’s it
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I feel your pain, had my own large backlog to clear pretty recently. It can be a grind - good luck! I do think you can improve on streaks though by having % studied in last 30 days or similar instead.
I’m not the biggest fan of streaks because after a while they become the motivation to keep going rather than the learning itself - doing it just to keep the streak. And a streak will always be lost eventually - so your main motivation transfers to something that will inevitably end. It’s like this guaranteed failure point in future. And if you build up a long streak, when you finally lose it all your motivation is gone because the streak was the motivation == you quit.
Which is why I like % studied in last 30 days instead → firstly you can aim to keep it above 90% rather than aiming at 100%. Life happens, sometimes you’re sick, or your grandma passes away etc and you can’t study - doesn’t matter you’re still winning if you miss a day or two with +90% goal. Also if something big happens (family holiday, stint in hospital etc) and you let it slip completely, it’s always less than a month to get back to a winning state (which is not true when you let your 500 day streak drop - getting it back is soul crushing). And finally it graphs nice - just a little bar graph of the last 30 days with number of reviews or something - really easy to see if you’ve missed a day by the missing bar, but also really motivating to see them all filled.
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