How to make a new card show up sooner?

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I have a large deck with thousands of vocabulary words. I have the new cards/day set to 0. Most days, I just review cards. On days when I want to learn new cards, I use custom study to “increase today’s new card limit”.

Sometimes, I find new words while reading that are in my deck but I haven’t gotten to studying them yet. I want to be able to make them show up first the next time I choose to use the “increase today’s new card limit” feature.
The problem with “set due date” is that it turns new cards into review cards which I end up having to bury multiple times because I don’t have time on that day to learn new cards and just want to review cards I already learned.

Basically, I just want to know how I can move a new card to the front of the queue, while still keeping it as a new card that only appears when I choose to “increase today’s new card limit”.

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You can use the reposition command for that.

https://docs.ankiweb.net/browsing.html#cards

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Thanks! Does the reposition command affect only new cards? Does it do anything to cards you’ve studied already?

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Yes, reposition affects only new cards

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Even simpler, create another deck…

I too have a long list of words to learn in German which I’ve collected while reading.

But then, I also get a list in my German class that I need to learn now. The others can wait.

So - I have a main deck, which has no cards in it, and two sub decks.

Main German Deck
– German Deck - words to learn now
– German Deck - words to learn when I have time

Thus, I can easily change the number of new cards per day in the two sub decks and learn the words I want to learn today.

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