Anki unable to pickup up new cards at RANDOM order

[azaz44]

@kaiu

It was 50/25, but now it’s 13/5—meaning the algorithm maintained the balance of new cards in each subdeck and didn’t allow one or the other to be overly biased, and all subdecks will be studied evenly with this algorithm.
I think they did the right thing. And if you want to bias your learning, always study the subdecks yourself in the order you need.

Exactly, this is what I’m getting.

Except, that Anki isn’t equalizing items in decks. If you mix A + B items in the same deck, and half of “A” is already reviewed (because, for example, you add B to the deck later), result is exactly the same. It will pull B all the time.

And I think it’s not a great thing at all. It isn’t random, and it has 2 major problems.

If you look at some of my decks:

These are sentences to study, on different “language islands”. It’s called Pinterest2 because sentences describe photos from there.

And now there are 2 big problems:

• whenever I add new material, either a new “language island” (in a subdeck), or just add a lot of sentences to one of existing decks, then learning parent deck (Pinterest2) will only show me this new material, for a long time.
• If I study one of subdecks directly (like “kitchen”) because I feel I need to learn it more, then later, when studying “Pinterest2”, it will NOT include “kitchen” items for a long time.