Manual Management of "Sister Letters"

Anki FSRS
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Hello everybody. I would like to clarify a question about card scheduling in a specific situation.

I usually create new cards and add them simultaneously. I noticed, however, that a simple card can influence another’s response when both are first reviewed on the same day.

I verified that in the panel you can select a card and use the option Set Review Date. I thought of applying this to never reviewed cards, to randomly assign a new initial visualization date, preventing the first review of “brothers” cards on the same day.

My question is: Considering this new configuration and the use of the FSRs algorithm, can this manual modification generate a problem or negative impact on system performance? I point out that, in this context, I am referring to cards such as simple, not the cloze.

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If I understood you correctly, enabling bury siblings in the deck options is the solution:

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Hello everybody.

I would like to know if it is possible to make changes to scheduling in a specific situation.

Thanks for the answer, friend.

However, my situation cannot be resolved by your suggestion, as it is related to the context of Cloze card cards.

In my case, I work with simple cards, which may contain information that influences other cards. Therefore, I want to do this control manually, since currently there is only this possibility for Cloze cards (C1, C2 - Even Card Two Different Cards Revised in but on different dates (including the first review?)).

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Just to confirm, did you enable the 3 options above and try to see if it fixes your issue? It should work for cloze cards as well as any other siblings.

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Yes, I activated

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@ZornHadNoChoice

I believe Well is asking to connect basic cards, so that things like burrying still works. Something like this: Manually link cards from different notes as siblings

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I think I understand you now.

Allow me to rephrase your question:

I usually create multiple basic cards that are closely related, in that if I study one of them, it spoils the answers for the other cards. How can I bury them automatically?

The answer is that you can’t AFAIK. There are a couple of workarounds:

  • Bury the card when you see it (by pressing “-”, gestures, etc).
  • Tag each of the undesired cards then create a filtered deck with a search "deck:x" -tag:y where x/y are the deck/tag name.
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To answer the FSRS-related part of your question –

  1. Using Set Due Date on New cards skips the Learn state (learning steps) and when you see them on that date you set, they will be Review cards.
  2. Because the cards never go through Learn, FSRS will treat that first study as a newly graduated from Learn Review.

Other than that, it will be no different.

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