I am afraid of the consequences that may ensue if I were to review some cards that I learned earlier in the day again later in the day. You can either let Anki change the scheduling or not.
1-I am afraid that if I let Anki change the scheduling it would make FSRS have a skewed view of the memory state and difficulty of the cards
2-If I don’t, I fear that I will be wasting effort - an effort that could be fed into Ankis revlog, if I were to just review the cards on their due time.
I am aware that cards have a due time for a reason, but I would like to know which option would be generally the better one in my case.
You select a certain amount of cards that you wish to study before their due date, and FSRS selects which cards to advance (makedue today) in a way that disrupts your scheduling the least.
It seems you can of course advance the cards if you input a number, but the add-on doesn’t recommand it because it will disrupt the optimal scheduling and thus your learning.
Yeah but what does advance even mean. Does it mean the cards will be made to be due NOW and that FSRS will take into account that they are out of the optimal scheduling now
Well yes you will have to review the cards now.
Two things I can think about :
You didn’t wait enough time before reviewing the cards, so you risk not using the full potential of “spaced repetition” (too early, you learn less effectively).
Obviously this is gonna set new dates for all these cards, and these new dates will not be optimal because of the first point
Sorry, I meant Custom Study. The reason why I am doubtful about using Custom Study filtered decks with scheduling enabled is for the reasons mentioned in the original post.
Of course, sorry. I know there is an option not to change the scheduling when you review a random amount of cards (last Custom Study option), but it doesn’t exist when you “Advance”.
(yet, I’m not sure, someone would need to confirm that)
You could still do it manually which would surely work, by duplicating your deck temporarily. But it’s far from optimal.
Would this then make all the cards in the deck immediately due if I just wrote some absurdly high number
I think so, yeah
Yeah but what does advance even mean. Does it mean the cards will be made to be due NOW and that FSRS will take into account that they are out of the optimal scheduling now
Yes.
Can this be reversed as is the case with Custom Study (by just deleting them)
You can click “Undo” in the “Edit” menu, otherwise no.
Thanks for the info.
One problem, in my experience, is that there is always a risk you cannot “Undo” (especially if you quit the app, but it seems it can happen under some other situations)
Tell me how the selection of cards in filtered decks, “Relative overdueness”, works when FSRS is turned on.
Do I understand correctly that with such a selection, cards with less “Retrievability” are selected, and if the filter includes future views, then the interval is calculated as usual?
If your search included cards that are not due, Anki will show the reviews ahead of time.
Anki uses a special algorithm for these reviews that takes into account how early you are reviewing.
Yes, but at that point a better tool for the job is just increasing desired retention. Though it depends on whether you want to review cards earlier only today or always. If you want to increase your workload not only for today, but forever, then increase desired retention.
