Easy days... just once

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hi,

I can’t do many reviews next weekend and I’d like to reduce my reviews by half or to zero (I still have to decide). is it OK to use this option for a week and then go back to normal or can it disrupt the algorithm ?

edit : I just reduced the load of reviews on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays) and set it back to normal and YES, the average number of reviews is now totally changed. it made Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays more busy with reviews. quite odd. what do you all think ?

is there an option or a tweak I can use for my specific goal (that is reduce and stop reviewing for a small number of days) ?

thank you !

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It wouldn’t have any immedate effect, see Deck Options - Anki Manual :

Changing your Easy Days configuration doesn’t retroactively change existing intervals and will only affect future intervals. Simply put, you will not see immediate changes in the number of due cards.

You can just do less reviews next weekend though and then review the backlog on the following monday / following days. You could also create a filtered deck and review ahead (Filtered Decks - Anki Manual).

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it does affect existing intervals if I reschedule cards on change.

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Use FSRS Helper add-on to select “easy days” for those specific dates. And then the add-on’s "apply easy days now " feature.

If you also did a reschedule to get the easy days to take effect, the cards would move, and then rescheduling again after wouldn’t necessarily put them back in the same place – but it would put them in the (or a) correct place, so it’s not a problem.

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thank you !
I just tried but must have missed something. I have four decks and I only want one deck to be reduced (by half, not to the minimum). I selected the days and applied easy days now. but the change applied to all decks with the minimum option. I undid it and tried to tweak with easy days settings in the said desk options. but nothing really worked out as expected.

any help would be super appreciated :slight_smile:

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I don’t think there’s a way to use the add-on’s specific-date easy days feature to just certain decks. For that, you’re probably better off using the add-on’s Advance and Postpone features, which use similar logic. Or you can just deal with that backlog in a Catch-up deck when you return.

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