How to filter decks by remaining steps in learning phase?

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Is there a way to filter decks by remaining steps in learning phase? If so, what is the syntax of the search expression?

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I don’t think there’s a way to search that. You can find all the search terms in Searching - Anki Manual. If something here doesn’t help, then perhaps nothing will.

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That’s correct. For the most part, you can only search for things that already exist in the database. Since a card doesn’t have a counter for how many learning steps there are (in its preset), or which of those it is on, you won’t be able to search for exactly that.

Perhaps something like this could be a proxy – is:learn -is:review prop:reps>2 [cards in Learn that have been seen more than 2 times]. But it won’t tell you whether the card is advancing through the steps.

I’m struggling to imagine a use for this information. Do you have a lot of learning steps? [You might not need that many …] Perhaps if you could tell us more about why you’re looking for that information, we might be able to point you to something more specific.

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I’d like to implement a custom scheduling algorithm, but I’ve run into the limitations of Anki (or maybe I just don’t know the system well enough). I’m looking for some kind of solution, but on second thought, the remainingSteps filter would just be a rather inconvenient workaround, not exactly what I actually want to achieve.

I’ll probably post a new question where I describe the actual problem, in case there’s a simple and good solution for it.

Thanks for the answers so far!

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