Hi! I’d like to know if there would be possible to add an option to adjust daily new cards based on review count, like it’s explained in this old reddit post: Reddit - The heart of the internet
I know it could be done manually each day but it’s tedious. I couldn’t find an addon that can do this either.
Best regards.
Isn’t the current setup enough?
You can use this technique to keep your workload in same limits:
If you have more free time: make the same per deck, not global
If you are advance Anki user then I can share with you my addon (you need manually add to Anki folder) which do almost the same but base on number of young cards for study day.
In the current setup you can only do it manually.
For example, if I wanted to study only <150 cards of a deck per day, I’d have to first do all the pending reviews, then estimate how many left up to 150 (150 - total reviews done) and then establish how many new cards should I do that day. Every day, in each deck.
I’d love if Anki had a way to automatically adjust the new cards based on a total reviews done in the day.
Why you only take into account young cards and not mature cards as well?
This is what setting a daily max review limit will do, since New cards being introduced are also counted in that limit. Deck Options - Anki Manual
That is generally not advised, because you have to be careful that you’re not hitting that limit, and creating a hidden backlog of overdue cards. But it would satisfy your goal.
You’re right about that daily max review limit would satisfy the goal, I didn’t know it worked that way.
But as I don’t like capping daily reviews (for the reasons you mention), still would love if you could dynamically set the daily new card limit while daily max review remain uncapped.
Using the example of my previous post:
Thanks for elaborating. It helps to know what is and is not meeting the needs of your use case.
This makes me wonder if it’s possible to dynamically change the number of new cards so as to ensure that most of the future days have roughly the same number of reviews (including new cards).
Only manually or by limiting also reviews.
The load balancer already balances out the reviews. Anything beyond that, I’m not sure will be of much use.
I think this suggestion and the load balancer makes for different uses and could complement each other.
While the load balancer smooth the future due curve, it doesn’t prevent the max load from going up and up if you don’t adjust properly the load the new cards will put in the future, resulting in an increased number of reviews over time until you finish all the new cards.
With this suggestion, you can make your max load stable over time, capping at whim how many reviews (or how much time) you want to do at max in any given day, without capping the reviews, only dynamically adjusting new cards each day. You could achieve a relative flat review curve until you finish all the new cards.
Here is a shabby graph representation of the difference:
As just an average user, my opinion may not carry much weight, but personally, I would really appreciate having a feature like the one Talusito suggests.
The core idea is appealing because it removes the need to constantly think about how many new cards to study each day.
Instead of micromanaging two separate numbers (new cards and total reviews), you’d simply set a single daily target, either a number of reviews (~1000) or a time-based goal (1 hour).
Then, once all due reviews are completed, Anki would automatically introduce new cards only if there’s remaining quota. No more guessing, no more fiddling with limits.
This kind of dynamic pacing seems like it would make the learning process smoother and more intuitive, especially for average users who just want to focus on studying without obsessing over fine-tuned scheduling.
In my opinion, replacing two parameters with one core question, how much time or effort are you willing to commit per day?. Would be a meaningful simplification that could benefit a broader range of users, especially those who are overwhelmed by Anki’s complexity.
That said, I’m just one user, but I believe this approach has real merit.
I would strongly support such a feature.
Great question — at first I couldn’t remember my reasoning, but now I’ve recalled it.
(For me, “young cards” = young + learn + relearn cards, i.e. not mature.)
You have 100 due cards to review today. Compare these two scenarios:
Do you feel the same level of mental strain after reviewing both?
In my opinion, young cards (with short intervals) create much more strain, so they serve as a natural limiter.
If you study a deck for a long time, look at how young and mature cards behave at scale:
Because mature cards keep piling up, you can eventually reach a point where the mature load becomes so heavy that you would need to keep increasing your daily new card limit just to keep learning fresh material.
