How to use Anki in a simple manner

Seems like a waste of a perfectly good Ferrari to me! But it sounds like you know what you want, so here’s how you do it. Let me know if you need a more detailed description of any of the steps.

  1. Build a Filtered deck with all of the cards. A search filter like deck:deckname will probably do it, but anything you can search for in Browse, you can use for a Filtered deck.
  2. In the Filtered deck Options – uncheck “reschedule based on” and set all of the delays to 0. Set whatever “selected by”/Order you want, but make sure the Limit is high enough to capture all of the cards.
  3. Click the Filtered deck to study. It doesn’t matter what grading button you pick, the cards will be returned to their home deck after you see them once. As long as you don’t Rebuild the deck before you’ve gone through all 10K cards, the deck will remember where you are.

[I might make different suggestions depending on what you want to do with the 10K cards after this process – but if you want to know more about that, you’ll have to provide additional details.]

Does the note type for this deck already make reversed cards (which are actually separate cards)? If not, no problem – just don’t make them. If so, you need to eliminate them from your search filter in #1. You can do that by searching them up in Browse and suspending them, or by excluding them from your search filter.

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