Defer a card for later today [on mobile]

Anki Suggestions
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Temporarily skip or defer a card on mobile

Add a mobile option to temporarily skip a card or move it back by N positions in the review queue, allowing other due cards to appear first. This would let users handle quick reviews on mobile and leave longer or more complex cards for when they get home.

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  1. What mobile app specifically?
  2. You could just bury them, then create a filtered deck when you’re home with is:buried-manually, see Searching - Anki Manual.
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  1. Both

  2. Hmm, i tried that. But get an error that no cards were found.

    I buried two cards, checked they were burried via Browse, then created a filtered deck with Search set to:

“deck:RED Interview” is:buried-manually

Then clicked Build. But error: “No cards match the provided search”.

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“deck:RED Interview” is:buried

works in Browse. But not a filtered deck.

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“Filtered decks cannot pull in cards that are suspended, buried, or already in a different filtered deck.”
Filtered Decks - Anki Manual.

Search for them in the browser then unbury them.

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You submitted this as a suggestion for “both” mobile apps, but –

  1. You put it in the category for desktop Anki – neither of the mobile apps.
  2. Development for the mobile apps happens separately, so you can’t really submit a suggestion for both – unless you are really asking for this feature in desktop first?
  3. It doesn’t look like you use “both” mobile apps.
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Fair point. I wasn’t trying to target desktop specifically, the intent is a mobile workflow improvement.

If mobile apps are developed separately, then consider this a request for whichever mobile app is appropriate.

The core request is the same: a way on mobile to temporarily defer a due card or push it back in the due card queue, without relying on burying and filtered decks, which don’t work together.

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Which app are you using? You’ll have to tell us which one is “appropriate.”

I suspect a feature like this would need to come from desktop first. This has been discussed before – but on desktop it is solvable with add-ons, and that won’t help you in whichever mobile app you’re using.

[It might go without saying, but just in case it doesn’t – you should read those posts/threads.]

Admittedly that leaves mobile app users caught in a gap – the feature needs to be developed on desktop first, but desktop doesn’t need the feature. Another consideration is that some users want this feature for the “I don’t remember it now, but I think I’ll remember it a little later” situation. That use-case should be handled by grading the card Again, because that’s what makes the algorithm work. Adding a built-in button for this could be an invitation for poor usage habits that interfere with learning.

The often recommended workaround of burying will work for you too. The important piece you’re missing is that when you are done studying everything else, you need to unbury the cards.

If you only unbury the manually buried ones, you’ll have just what you want in your regular deck, and you don’t need a Filtered deck at all. If you use manual-burying for something else too, you’ll want to flag-and-bury these ones, so you can easily search them up, and unbury just them.

On desktop, you’re given the option to unbury just the manually buried cards. I don’t know the status of that pop-up in either of the mobile apps (and you haven’t said which one matters), but see those threads as well for how to search for those cards and unbury just them.

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Sorry for the delayed response. I’ll give that workaround a go after tomorrow when I’ll have more time.

Regarding a firm decision on the platform, it really doesn’t matter to me. I have access to both due to work. So whichever is easiest to implement. If there’s no difference then please just flip a coin or pick the most popular/widest used or where this suggestion could be of most benefit to the community.