Kind of silly, but the only thing in anki that breaks the flow of my study is the onscreen leech notification. It’s become especially bad since switching to fsrs, as I’m now leeching cards at a significantly higher rate than before.
Thanks for reading.
Another option – if you’re willing to give up Leech tagging to avoid the onscreen notification, you can set your threshold to 9999 or some other absurd number.
You’ll still be able to find the cards that need your attention (would have earned a “leech” tag) by searching for cards with lapses above your current threshhold – prop:lapses>=8 – Searching - Anki Manual.
Thank you , setting a very high threshold is a good suggestion. I do like having them tagged automatically, but searching by lapses and manually tagging them is a reasonable workaround.
I know this is an old topic but this also bothers me quite a bit.
I believe automatic leech suspension/removal/resetting is objectively good for optimal study, at least in my case, but seeing the notification every time is really distracting and honestly a little demoralising.
I’ve tried to use some AI tools to write a plugin to hide it but none of them worked, and there isn’t one already extant so I’m leaning towards thinking it’s not possible to overwrite? I don’t really see why though… I’d personally be willing to just blanket disable the notification box entirely tbh if there was a button for that.
Isn’t continual leeching a sign that one’s study method is not working?
I uploaded a small add-on to AnkiWeb for just hide the Leech notifications:
Hide Leech Notification (by Shigeඞ)
I recommend checking to see if it works correctly before using it. (e.g. temporarily set the Leech threshold to 1 and press Again.)
Thank you Shigeyuki, this must be what being saved by Batman feels like.
Even getting 95% retention, the little popup still greatly irritates me and takes me out of any kind of flow state when it does appear. I’m easily bothered by these sorts of little distractions. Removing answer buttons for example greatly boosted the usefulness of Anki to me whereas I’m sure for many people it’s a trivial cosmetic change.
I use AnkiMobile. I know we can’t use add-ons. Is it possible that this feature could be added into the app itself? I really would love to disable the Leech notifications for the reasons others have stated here, and just have cards be automatically and silently suspended if I fail them at a set threshold. Thank you!
There’s a hidden option in AnkiMobile: Add "Show on leech tooltips" review preference by KolbyML · Pull Request #3479 · ankitects/anki · GitHub
Thanks for your response. But I’ll admit that I’m not sure what you mean. Is there a hidden way I can turn off the notifications and have the leeches just get silently suspended in AnkiMobile? If so, how? 
mw.col.set_config("amLeechPopup", False)
This^ needs to be typed in the debug console: Miscellaneous - Anki Manual
I think the question is more “Where to find the debug console in AnkiMobile?”, otherwise only knowing the command for desktop isn’t really that helpful.
You need to use the computer version to execute the command, which will alter AnkiMobile’s behaviour after a sync.
I added support for toggle on/off (True/False) of AnkiMobile’s Leech notifications to the add-on. It’s available from the addons dialog, after changing the settings please sync Anki for desktop and AnkiMobile.
add-on: Hide Leech Notification
Edit: So far this add-on has only been downloaded 14, so I think the demand from users is very low. (It’s very common in add-ons development.)
