I did some new cards yesterday and went through the normal steps. today Im reviewing those same cards from yesterday and its telling me that if i press “good” it will show again in one day even though my graduating interval is set to 3 days? what is going on and how can I fix this?
this is how it looks and these are the settings
edit: this all started happening after I switched my day starts time back to the evening (9pm) and then back to its original (7am)
Messing with the next-day-start can certainly have effects – you should avoid it, since changing it serves no purpose. Your next-day-start time should be buried deep in your sleeping hours where you won’t study anywhere close to it.
This could also be due to –
- Syncing errors. Are you careful to make sure you sync when you open the app AND when you close/leave the app, on every device, every time?
- Changing your learning steps while you have cards in Learn. This can cause a card to skip or repeat a step. There’s no long-term harm, and the cards will be set right after another review or 2. If you want to fix them immediately, you can either (a) reset them to New, or (b) use Set Due Date to graduate them to Review.
[I would be remiss if I didn’t suggest you leave the long-steps and graduating intervals behind and enable FSRS. It’s simply a better scheduling algorithm.]
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Yea I think this happened because I messed with the learning steps mid review (changed from 10 m to 3 m back to 10 min). I’d definitely want to do option B solely because I have a board exam coming up and am doing new cards everyday for a little and don’t really want to tripple my review by seeing new cards 3 days in a row before it graduates on top of the new ones that I’m constantly doing and putting into an extra learning day. With option B, I’m guessing I would just do the cards first then go to is:learn and then manually change them to 3 days so that I skip the extra learning step that I would see tomorrow and force anki moving forward to follow the normal graduated review? am I correct on this? And with that, how will that stop the same issue from happening to new cards that I do? Asking because I noticed this last week and it happens with all my newly learned cards.
Pretty much. Before you study I would search them up, and flag them – because after you study, you’ll have other cards that are on the correct step mixed in with them.
- Search
is:learn prop:ivl=1– all of the interday learning cards that came into today already on the 1d step – and flag those. - When you study, grade them as you usually would, based on your answers, not on the intervals on the buttons.
- After you study, search for
is:learn prop:ivl=1 flag:2 rated:1:3– of the cards that came into today on the 1d steps, were graded Good, and are still on the 1d step. - Select all > Cards > Set Due Date >
3. That should also change them to a 3d interval, but double check that is what happened. If not Edit > Undo, and use3!instead. - Then you can remove the flags to clean up.
It won’t happen again unless you change the learning steps again. Anything that was New or Review when you changed the learning steps is unaffected.
ok thanks. when i followed the first part all im seeing are my cards that were previously graduated but are now in relearning phase. These are actually following the correct relearning steps. however, with this particular search (first bullet point) out of all 132 cards not one of them were cards that were actually in the new card learning phase (10 m then 1d then graduate to 3d). what do you think i should search for instead? also here’s a screenshot of what I’m referring to vs a card that is actually problematic
I didn’t realize you had a 1d relearning step as well. Try is:learn prop:ivl=1 -is:review instead. That should limit it to just Learn, not Relearn cards. Searching - Anki Manual