Is there a simple way to make a filtered deck follow the limit of the original deck.
The problem I am trying to solve is that I have imported a large shared deck with lots of notes, but I’m only interested in a few tagged ones for now (but I’m also studying the other notes). I also have my own decks which I want to pull cards from also by tag.
What I could do (so far, this is the best solution I found) is create a filtered deck for the tag and set is:due with a card limit and another filter of is:new with another card limit, as I want to study both new cards and review old cards.
But this has a few problems:
For each deck the custom study will pull from, I need to set the limit manually for both new and due cards so that it will match the study limit of the deck.
The card limits don’t account for cards I have already studied earlier in the day outside the filtered deck study. I’m not sure if this has something to do with my workflow of often emptying and rebuild the filtered deck when I need it.
Sometimes I will add more cards while studying, which requires rebuilding to move it into the filtered deck, but the card limits will “reset” if I do this.
Not exactly. But can I give you a completely different approach that will work?
Whenever I see a situation where someone is trying to get a Filtered deck to act like a regular deck, it makes me think, “a Filtered deck is not the right tool for this job.” You’ll have a much easier time doing normal, everyday studying of due Review cards and introducing New cards in a regular deck.
In each of the decks (shared and your own), search up all of the New cards, and suspend them. Then, in each deck, search the New cards that match the tags you’re working on now, and unsuspend them. Now you can study in your regular decks with your regular limits. When you’re ready to queue up more New cards, by tag or specific cards, you can unsuspend those as well.
Whenever you add new notes/cards, if you want them to flow right into yor New-card queue, they will. If you want them to stay on hold, you can find and suspend them.
Please let me know if I’ve misunderstood, or this will make something else harder than it needs to be – because this is just the 1st option! There are others with a few more moving parts, that might fit different particular situations.
Your solution is an interesting approach to this problem that I didn’t think of. I will try your approach for now, but I still think that these solutions are more complicated than what it should be.
I would’ve thought there would be a simpler solution to what I think is necessary for people that use tags over decks and subdecks. Originally, I would’ve created decks for courses and subdecks for topics. However, after learning about tags from the docs, and encountering some cards that were shared between multiple courses. I switched over to “Main” deck that has all my cards for my courses and tag each card with the relevant course, this has the advantage that a card can have multiple tags for the courses it is a part of.
Sometimes I would get a backlog of cards (I know I shouldn’t let this happen) and because of exams, certain courses would have a higher priority for me to review. I would like to review certain courses (tags) while keeping it synchronized with the original deck limit to prevent myself from reviewing too much. This is another one of my use cases in addition to what I said before.
Maybe another way I was think of (potential feature request), was to be able to set deck limits for filtered decks (not rebuild filter limit), this way rebuilds will not have the 3rd problem, and I would be able to set the preset to be the same as the original deck (if they were all in a deck like my “Main” deck).
The way to do that already is to put your filtered deck inside a regular deck. You can build the filtered deck once, and use daily limits on its parent-regular deck (and your other decks) to control the flow of those cards.
Ex: My “04 Catch-up” deck only exists to control the filtered deck inside it. [I thankfully don’t have a backlog right now, so I move the 04 deck into an inactive section of my collection and I don’t have to create it new every time.]
