I create a filtered deck and move a certain set of cards there so I can focus on the type of reviews that I can do during a certain time of the day. After some hours, I want to integrate the filtered cards back and have them all jumbled together. However, bringing back the previous cards always puts those cards at the start of the queue, even after going to options and changing the review sort order to something specific and then back to random – it’s not random at all; the previously moved cards are always at the start, and I always see the very same card at the start too as I change between orders. Anything that’s not very strict in its ordering gives the same result. Only things like “Ascending intervals” can mix cards up, but then they’re sorted in a way that I don’t like them. I just want them to be random. Before moving to a filtered deck, the cards were properly mixed.
I see this as a bug (random is not random, and is always the same thing), but something tells me there will be a “Well, see…” incoming due to some obscure feature I’ve never heard about. So I categorize this as help. Please don’t tell me I need another add-on.
What do you mean when you say that you “move a certain set of cards” and then “bringing back”?
Are you actually moving the cards from a deck by dragging them or by choosing to Change Deck from the Browse window?
If you are, you might like to read the article in the Anki manual on Filtered Decks, which includes Custom Study. Using this method, your cards visit the Custom Deck and then return to their home decks automatically, when the custom learning is complete.
Yes, it’s a filtered deck. By moving them back I mean emptying the filtered deck. After doing this, they are stuck at the front of the queue in almost all review orders.
There is no obscure feature affecting the orders. I’m actually not sure what this is but I’m getting a déjà vu here. I’ll try to see if I can find any other posts like this.
I think the problem is only with the “random” order. The other orders don’t necessarily have to mix up your filtered deck cards.
Can you also update your Anki to see if it’s resolved in the latest?