How can I make Anki stop after I did 50 reviews?
This doesn’t answer the question how to set a limit.
If you want to see fewer Learning/Relearning cards, then you can reduce the number of steps in setting up the preset. The number of Learning cards will also decrease if you reduce the number of new ones.
If i hit 50 daily reviews i want anki to show “jobs done see you tomorrow” ish
You can also use filtered decks for this.
I did a fitered deck now and set a limit to 5, but now there is still in 1 hour again questions. I just want it to end. Only 5 reviews then end
Learning Steps
Relearning Steps
Scheduler
Learn ahead limit
Tells Anki how to behave when there is nothing left to study in the current deck but cards in learning. The default setting of 20 minutes tells Anki that cards should be shown early if they have a delay of less than 20 minutes and there’s nothing else to do. If you set this to 0, Anki will always wait the full delay, showing the congratulations screen until the remaining cards are ready to be reviewed.
There is no easy setup for what you want.
You can only try to get closer to the desired result.
What do you mean by getting closer to the desired result? And how? I am not talking about the daily average in the heatmap.
Is there an Add-on maybe?
So there is no solution for a simple problem
Anki’s review limits are a bit special in that they’re really limiting cards per day, not reviews. It’s possible to exceed the daily “review” limit with cards that get seen multiple times in a day, like new cards and relearning cards. Each time that they’re answered in a day is counted as a review in statistics, and there isn’t a limit to set based on that number. The only limit to set is the one based on the total of unique cards seen, not how many times in a day that answers are given.
You were right. You should have this set:
Deck options → Maximum reviews/day → Preset → 50
I don’t know why it’s not limiting on your end like you showed in the second comment. Without figuring that out, you’re going to be stuck with poor solutions.
These are the only questions I can think of right now:
Are the deck options being saved?
Are those 97 cards learning/relearning cards with intervals less than a day in length?
Below is an example from my end.
Before the change:
After the change (and hitting “Save” in the top right):
Cards marked “again” will increase the count of reviews for the day and make it look like Anki’s not respecting your limit. For example, these are the results for me yesterday:
I don’t have a limit set, but if I did, those 33 “relearning” reviews would have ignored the limit. What’s happening there is the 11 cards I marked “again” counted as 11 normal reviews AND 33 relearning reviews (3 relearning reviews/steps per card * 11 relearning cards = 33 relearning reviews).
That means that if I didn’t screw up on those 11 cards, I’d have 338 reviews for the day instead of 371. But if I had set a limit of 338 reviews and still screwed up, I’d still have 371 reviews for the day because the relearning steps would ignore that limit.
Similar things happen for new cards. For your new cards using steps 1h 1d 3d and a limit of 20 new cards/day, that means 40 reviews for new cards per day plus more for any marked “again” (2 steps in the same day 1h 1d → 2 reviews in the same day for each of 20 cards → 2 * 20 = 40).
I don’t know if this answers anything, but I hope it at least gave a hint where you should look. The setting not fixing things on your end is strange to me.
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These are the only questions I can think of right now:
Are the deck options being saved?
Are those 97 cards learning/relearning cards with intervals less than a day in length?
Can you show with pictures what do mean? So I can sent screenshot.
At the moment i found a solution, which works really good.
Self Discipline.
Just stop at 50 reviews for the rest of the day.
Unfortunately, the easiest way I knew doesn’t work the way I thought – it may be bugged. I’ll have to pay attention to it for a while and then ask about/report it.
Steps that DON'T work (click to expand if you want to try)
- Open the browser
- Ensure that the search toggle is on cards, not notes
- Search for the interval property with a value less than a day with
prop:ivl<1 - For some reason, cards that don’t belong in the results are present, and the cards that do belong there are absent.
On top of this, the interval shown in the browser column is NOT guaranteed to be the same interval that the card is actually on. I just tested this by marking something wrong:
- I searched
rated:1:1to show cards marked wrong today. There’s only one card.
- I opened its card info and inspected the intervals
Despite all of the problems above, there’s still a way to look as long as you’re on a computer. Make sure to keep in mind the actual interval’s location from the image above.
- Search for
is:learn is:dueto search for both learning and relearning cards that are due - Open card info (right click → Info…)
- Arrange the windows side by side so that you can scroll the browse window while watching the actual interval’s location in the card info window
- Select the first card in the browse window
- Start hitting the down arrow while watching for intervals less than a day
- The card info window will update after the card selection changes in the browse window
Alternative searches available:
is:learn -is:review is:due for only learning
is:learn is:review is:due for only relearning