The way I used to study in the past was I used paper flash cards. As I went through my paper flash cards I created two separate piles, ones I got right, and ones I got wrong. If I got a card right, it went into the right pile, if I got it wrong, even on the first try, it went into the wrong pile.
Once I finished going through my deck, I would pick up the pile that I got the answers wrong, and repeat. This allowed me to really focus on the cards I got wrong and the material I didn’t know.
With Anki, I cant find a way to do this easily. I don’t really like the “again”, “hard”, “good”, and “easy” selections. It requires me to add metadata to cards to try and review them again later (like a flag), and I still have to select “easy” or bury card so a card I get wrong doesn’t appear again. Then when I am done the deck, I have to reshuffle it to work on the cards again.
To me, the way I used paper cards in the past helped me learn what I needed to learn, and set aside topics I knew well. I don’t feel the same with with Anki.
I really like had Anki has tags. I thought I could created filtered decks based on the tags, which I can. However creating a filtered deck using one tag of a card, and another with a different tag of the same card is resulting in me not being able to run through filtered decks at my choosing. Those filtered decks that were already reviewed will make the cards that I got right for a period of time not accessible, I cant just reshuffle and ad hoc run through a different filtered deck with a different tag of cards that had other tags. To be clear I have one huge deck, then filtered decks for each card based on the chapter of the book. Those cards have other tags as well which I want to create different filtered decks off of.
Am I just using Anki wrong? Is there a way to accomplish what I am trying to do?