A Question about Custom Studies

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For the “review ahead” option for custom studies, is there a way to exclude certain tags? Like I can click the option for an entire deck or subdeck, but not a specific tag(s). Also, there’s no way to change the card state of a flashcard, right?

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There isn’t. But while Custom Study is one way to make a Filtered Deck – it’s not the only way. For anything that doesn’t exactly fit that menu of options or that you’re struggling with, you should just skip past Custom Study and make your Filtered Deck manually.

You can build it based on pretty much anything you can search for – due on a specific day, include certain tags, exclude certain tags, etc. If you assemble your search in Browse, you’ll know what you’re going to get in the deck, and you can select Edit > Create Filtered Deck from there.

There are ways – but what are you trying to accomplish with that? (For possible states, see – Getting Started - Anki Manual .)

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Thank you!

For the card states, I just accidentally reset some cards

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The ways to go back after making a mistake like that are:

  • If you want to roll-back changes you’ve made just now (and haven’t closed or synced since then) – Edit > Undo [Ctrl Z] the change. [If you select it from the menu, Anki will describe which change it is reversing with each click (useful when you can’t see it happening!).]
  • If you want to roll-back changes made longer ago than that – Option A: Restore from an automatic or manual backup [but you’ll lose any reviews and changes you’ve made since that backup was created].
    • If you just want to grab one thing from a backup (like the text of a template, or one deck out of many, or a set of notes/cards that use a particular note type), you can minimize data loss by importing the backup into a brand new (temporary) profile, find what you’re looking for, copy/export it, and then import it into your main profile.
  • If you want to roll-back changes made longer ago than that – Option B: Force a one-way sync and download from AnkiWeb [but you’ll lose any reviews and changes you’ve made since your last sync].