Allow user to set the display order of due learning cards

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I’m studying a deck created using the LPCG (Lyrics/Poetry Cloze Generator) add-on (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2084557901). The deck is a long list of words that I have to learn in the exact order they have been entered.

However, I’m running into an issue - I can’t control the display order of learning cards and as a result, if I set LPCG to show me the previous 5 words as context and card #30 comes up for review, it will spoil the answers to cards #26, #27, #28 and #29 making their reviews pointless.

It would be incredibly helpful to be able to set the order of due learning cards from oldest to newest.

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Learn cards are already shown in the order they are due – Studying - Anki Manual . But that can deviate from the order they are introduced because as you study each card, a random amount of fuzz is added to keep the cards from being in the same order every time – Studying - Anki Manual .

Isn’t LPCG designed to work with Anki functioning exactly that way?

LPCG takes a different approach: it generates cards that can stand on their own and make perfect sense in random order. – Theory — LPCG 1.4.3 documentation

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The thing is, I use Anki both for initial memorization and for reviewing. If I go through 10 new cards (moving them to the learning queue) then I need those 10 cards to be shown to me in the exact order they were added or else they will reveal the answers to the previous cards.

As a test, I added 10 new basic cards to an empty deck and numbered them from 1 to 10, then I quickly failed them all (pressing ‘Again’ to make them go to the learning queue).

When I reviewed them, they came up in the order: 5 3 2 9 4 6 1 10 8 7.

What I’m looking for is for the learning cards to show up in order from 1 to 10 no matter what.

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Order added

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Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work well for my use case, if I understand filtered decks correctly. I can add hundreds of new cards every day and continuously having to create filtered decks every few minutes would be very unwieldy, especially on AnkiDroid.

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If you do not delete the filtered deck, then you will not have to create it every time. The number of cards is specified in the settings.

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After some testing, I find that doesn’t quite behave the way I need it to. When I create a filtered deck with “deck:Test is:due” as a search filter and select cards by “Order added” - I do initially get a deck where learning cards show up in correct order from 1 to 10, but they revert back to “random” order after one review.

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What does it mean? Are you using a filtered deck without rescheduling?
Or do you mean Learning cards?
Types of Cards Learning

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Yes, I mean Learning cards.

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In short, there’s nothing you can do about it.

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Thanks for looking into it. I hope the devs will consider adding this feature if feasible. In the meantime, I will continue looking for a workaround.

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I used the Lyrics/Poetry Close Generator and I didn’t have any problems. Over time, the algorithm will disperse the cards.

Alternatively, there may be a preview function or a note type that will allow you to open the lines yourself.

Enhanced Cloze (for Anki 2.1)

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