Anki question

[sunshine02]

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Hi guys,

Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent anki from going into the next day and thus showing you a bunch of cards that need to be reviewed added to the ones that you haven't finished reviewing yet from the previous day?

 

[GoljansRightBicep]

Just making sure I understand your question: you want to use Anki, but don't want it to add new cards (blue) until you've finished your review of old cards (red and green)?

If that's what you're asking about, I've found the best way is to reduce today's new card limit to zero. I do this when I'm behind on Anki - this way you can finish your review of all the old cards you're learning before you add new cards. You'll have to manually change the new cards/day option back when you're done though.

Honestly, after reading your question again I'm not sure this is actually what you're asking. Can you clarify at all?

 

[673441]

Hi guys,

Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent anki from going into the next day and thus showing you a bunch of cards that need to be reviewed added to the ones that you haven't finished reviewing yet from the previous day?

The short answer to your question is no. You have no way of re-distributing review cards to future dates since that is counter to Ankis' learning algorithm.
From the Anki Manual:
"If you fall behind in your reviews, Anki will prioritize cards that have been waiting the longest. It does this by taking the 200 cards that have been waiting the longest and showing them to you in a random order up until your daily review limit. This ordering ensures that no cards will be left waiting indefinitely, but it means that if you introduce new cards, their reviews won’t appear until you’ve gotten through your backlog."

Basically, the need to re-balance and redistribute review cards is redundant since Anki will factor any delays in studying specific cards in the algorithm. Also, they will push up the cards that haven't been seen so cards don't just hang out in the bottom of the deck as new ones get added daily. Just skip the reviewing for the day and Anki will handle the rest!

 

[sunshine02]

Just making sure I understand your question: you want to use Anki, but don't want it to add new cards (blue) until you've finished your review of old cards (red and green)?

If that's what you're asking about, I've found the best way is to reduce today's new card limit to zero. I do this when I'm behind on Anki - this way you can finish your review of all the old cards you're learning before you add new cards. You'll have to manually change the new cards/day option back when you're done though.

Honestly, after reading your question again I'm not sure this is actually what you're asking. Can you clarify at all?

Hi thanks for your reply! That's not what I was asking. To clarify, I currently have over 600 cards to go through everyday lol...and I can only get through about 300 a day. The other 300 cards I don't get to see and by the time the next day hits, I'm back at 600 something cards again (due to cards I've reviewed from the previous day added back into the deck). I'm worried that because I have so many cards to go through every day and because I can't seem to get through them all, I don't want cards at the bottom of the deck to just sit there and not get reviewed. I was just wondering if there's some way for me to prevent anki from adding old cards into my deck at the start of each day until I finish reviewing all my cards in the deck from the day before (including the new ones). Hope that clarifies my question.

 

[OnePunchBiopsy]

There is a way of adjusting "reviews per day." In the options section.

 

[sunshine02]

There is a way of adjusting "reviews per day." In the options section.

Thanks! I'm still pretty new to Anki so can you explain how I should adjust it? Right now it's set at Maximum reviews/day: 1000. Not sure what that means.

Thank you for your help!

 

[OnePunchBiopsy]

Thanks! I'm still pretty new to Anki so can you explain how I should adjust it? Right now it's set at Maximum reviews/day: 1000. Not sure what that means.

Thank you for your help!

If you had a deck of 1000 new cards and started reviewing, only to get through 300, if you set reviews per day to 25, then the next day you would only have to go through 25 of the cards you already covered, and would have less to get through before hitting the new 700 you did not reach yet.