# Allow to not move card to learning with empty relearning steps

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/allow-to-not-move-card-to-learning-with-empty-relearning-steps/53087>\
**Category:** Suggestions\
**Created:** [December 12, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/allow-to-not-move-card-to-learning-with-empty-relearning-steps/53087 "2024-12-12T09:12:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![szalejot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/szalejot/32/16310_2.png) [@szalejot](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/szalejot)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/allow-to-not-move-card-to-learning-with-empty-relearning-steps/53087/1 "2024-12-12T09:12:22Z")

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**  
After the last major Anki update, when relearning steps are empty it’s up to FSRS to calculate interval. It can calculate \<1d interval and put card into learning state.  
Before that, when relearning steps were empty minimum scheduled interval was 1d. The review card was not put into learning again.

**Describe the solution you’d like**  
Some mechanism (switch, toggle) to disable putting reviews in learning again when relearning steps are empty.  
I used that approach for a few very specific decks.

**Describe alternatives you’ve considered**  
For now, I put “1d” as the relearning interval, and at the end of the Anki session, I manually reschedule learning cards for the next day. However, this requires a manual step.

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**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/allow-to-not-move-card-to-learning-with-empty-relearning-steps/53087/2 "2024-12-14T12:10:53Z")

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@L.M.Sherlock thoughts on how you want to handle this? We have that existing flag that controls whether FSRS adds extra steps to whatever exists, but presumably we couldn’t just repurpose that? It would be nice if we could avoid a tristate for handling this.

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**Author:** ![L.M.Sherlock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/l.m.sherlock/32/16770_2.png) [@L.M.Sherlock](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/L.M.Sherlock)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/allow-to-not-move-card-to-learning-with-empty-relearning-steps/53087/3 "2024-12-14T15:21:03Z")

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When FSRS give you \<1d interval, it means your desired retention is unachievable if the card is scheduled to the next day. I don’t know why you want to set a minimum scheduled interval for that.

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**Author:** ![szalejot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/szalejot/32/16310_2.png) [@szalejot](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/szalejot)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/allow-to-not-move-card-to-learning-with-empty-relearning-steps/53087/4 "2024-12-15T11:48:57Z")

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This is for a special deck. I am keeping music exercises in it.  
I have main deck for all exercises and subdecks for each type. I want to do at most 1 exercise of each type a day. So I put max reviews to 1 on each subdeck.  
Let’s say I have 5 subdecks but today I have time for only 3 exercises. I draw 3 cards from a main deck and rate it. If any of them will receive \<1d interval the next day there will be 2 cards to draw from this particular subdeck, instead of 1.

I know, that Anki is not great for this type of learning setup. But it’s far more convenient than keeping track of a practice log in a spreadsheet.