The FSRS Helper “Advance” feature and Custom Study “Review Ahead” aren’t the same thing.
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“Review Ahead” pulls cards together from a certain number of future days, without regard for whether it’s going to be useful to study them early.
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“Advance” selects a certain number of cards from the future, without regard for what days they are scheduled. It chooses cards where rescheduling them to today will have the least impact on retention – i.e., the cards that are most sensible to move forward. [You can do something similar by crafting a Filtered deck that carefully applies certain criteria – but why waste time doing that on your own.]
Unfortunately, I can’t make head nor tail of your drawings and handwriting, so let’s just stick with text. If you have another plan that you think will work for you – go for it. You certainly don’t need the approval of anyone here.
I still believe that increasing your DR is a mistake [and increasing it to 99% is ridiculous]. There’s no reason to reschedule your cards to a fake schedule that you don’t actually want them to follow – especially when you’re just going to schedule them back later on.
Rescheduling the cards to a higher DR just means they’ll be due more often. That’s it.
So [1] picture a card that is on a 60d interval at your 90% DR. Sure, if you want to, you can reschedule that to a 99% DR and it will be due for you to study every week instead. But all of that weekly study is unnecessary to maintain 90% retention – FSRS is only scheduling the card because you asked it to increase your retention to 99%. When you reschedule the card back to 90% DR, FSRS will look at that review history and wonder why you studied that card so much more often than you needed to. It might not have as much effect on the future scheduling of the card as you think.
[mocked up numbers for purposes of illustration] ↩︎