# Ignorant new user wants to repeat exact previous card series :)
**URL:** https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ignorant-new-user-wants-to-repeat-exact-previous-card-series/66350
**Category:** Scheduling
**Created:** [September 9, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ignorant-new-user-wants-to-repeat-exact-previous-card-series/66350 "2025-09-09T16:35:39Z")
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### Author:  [@mpda](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/mpda)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ignorant-new-user-wants-to-repeat-exact-previous-card-series/66350/1 "2025-09-09T16:35:39Z")
Hi,
I am a new user. I got a shared deck with 5000 phrases. And I fully understand (from FAQ etc) that Anki rules when to re-schedule cards.
However, me ignorant user just would like to do it differently! 🙂 As follows:
- Let Anki present cards I marked “hard” or “again” last time
- Additionally present some new cards (if some limit is not reached)
That’s all… Would that be possible with Anki?
Rationale: It seems that Anki (or my specifc deck) focusses on some _topic_ and thus presents a lot new cards dealing with that topic. However, when I am learning the phrases I am learning _a lot what is off topic_ (like vocabulary, word order etc) which I would immediately loose when not repeated 50 times before introducing new cards.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ZornHadNoChoice](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/ZornHadNoChoice)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ignorant-new-user-wants-to-repeat-exact-previous-card-series/66350/2 "2025-09-09T17:18:59Z")
> [@mpda](#):
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> which I would immediately loose when not repeated 50 times
Simple, just make new cards for those. But if you insist, check out the manual [Filtered Decks - Anki Manual](https://docs.ankiweb.net/filtered-decks.html?highlight=filtered#filtered-decks--cramming) and specifically [Searching - Anki Manual](https://docs.ankiweb.net/searching.html#answered).
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### Author:  [@mpda](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/mpda)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ignorant-new-user-wants-to-repeat-exact-previous-card-series/66350/3 "2025-09-09T18:17:33Z")
Thanks for helping!
I followed the instructions you linked. However, I don’t find a way to simply make Anki re-schedule the cards I did today. Neither via _Custom Study / Study by card state or tag_ nor by _Searching Today / Studied / Preview_.
I always get presented new phrases I never had before.
I believe that I am missing something trivial here…
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### Author:  [@Anon\_0000](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Anon_0000)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ignorant-new-user-wants-to-repeat-exact-previous-card-series/66350/4 "2025-09-09T18:22:17Z")
You’d use a filtered deck and filter for `rated:1` as outlined in the links sent above by ZornHadNoChoice.
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### Author:  [@mpda](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/mpda)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ignorant-new-user-wants-to-repeat-exact-previous-card-series/66350/5 "2025-09-09T18:42:17Z")
Yeah, thanks, that’s exacly what I did. I filter using `rated:1` then _Edit / Create filted deck / Build_.
But then Anki says there are no matches.
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### Author:  [@Anon\_0000](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Anon_0000)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ignorant-new-user-wants-to-repeat-exact-previous-card-series/66350/6 "2025-09-09T19:10:26Z")
`rated:1` shows the cards you have seen today and rated (you pressed one of the 4 answer buttons).
Is that what you did? If yes, then it should show you the cards. You can also open the card browser and paste `rated:1` to see which cards are matched; this might help troubleshooting.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ignorant-new-user-wants-to-repeat-exact-previous-card-series/66350/7 "2025-10-09T19:10:26Z")
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