Custom Study > Study a random selection of cards

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This is the how the Custom Study menu looks in Ankidroid:

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Here, the same dialog in desktop:
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One of the most common questions I see in the forums, specially from newcomers, is how to study a few random cards from a deck. Ankidroid offers a quick an easy way for that, but in the Desktop version is not so easy to find that option, you have to click in the last option, choose “All cards in random order”, click on “Choose tags” and then choose tags to include / exclude even if there are not tags in that deck.
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Since Custom Study menu is primarily designed as a set of quick presets for filtered decks (more advanced users often use the Tool > Create Filtered Deck option directly), I would suggest, for the sake of use, to just add that option to the main Custom Study menu:
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Added to Custom study screen suggestion · Issue #2358 · ankitects/anki · GitHub

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Very good point! Have an option to study a selection of cards in random order in my own pace - is the main purpose I came to Anki cards application. It is surprisingly deep and not easy to set from the first moment. For sure you need to have this option in main menu. I think, I am not the only one who is looking for it.

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this feature would be super useful for recall practice in small increments.

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what? can you elaborate? sounds pretty solid to me.

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oh man typo, useful people useful! =) (edited the post to fix the typo)