New siblings are buried after they have been gathered. For example, using Ascending position to gather cards might result in all back—>front getting buried if their siblings are available. This happens because the
front—>back cards are gathered first and so the later siblings get buried.
The preceding is true even if you use Random sort order. Is there a reason this is how burying still works? It feels like wasted potential for v3 scheduler. I should be able to gather the oldest cards and study them completely randomly using those two orders but that does not happen. I think ideally, I would be getting a mix of front—>back and back—>front cards.
I would prefer that the new siblings get buried after the sort order is applied and not during gathering.
I think the same logic should apply to review sort order. I haven’t tested this but I assume review sort order is also inconsequential to burying. If I’m using Relative overdueness to study the low retrievability cards first, siblings that come first in this list should be prioritised when burying happens.
All of this, of course, shouldn’t apply to the two other orders (new/review, interday learning/review).