Notification Add-on for New Due Cards

Hi everyone,

Is there an add-on that sends notifications (popup or sound) when new cards become due in a deck that previously had no cards available.

The idea is simple:

  • When a deck is empty and new cards are scheduled to appear (e.g., after 10 minutes), the add-on would notify the user when those cards are ready.
  • The notification could be a popup, a sound, or both, configurable in the settings.

If there isn’t something like this, then I would like to suggest it’s creation. This would be really helpful, as we’d be able to answer cards right away without having to manually track when the next cards are due.

I’m not a programmer, but I imagine this could use the Anki API to monitor when the due count changes from 0 to a positive number for a specific deck.

Right now, what I do is set a timer on my phone, but would absolutely prefer to not have to, can you help me?

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I had an idea similar to that before but didn’t develop that function because a timer addon would have sufficed. The relearning card shows up after 10 to 15 minutes so when all the cards are done just use the shortcut key to run the timer for 10 minutes, when the timer finishes, almost all the relearning cards are shown so no need for a notification for each one.

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That would kinda work, but usually I try to respect the exact time and when I finish a deck, I might have a card that is going to show after 3 minutes, another after 8, and another after 10 or something like that.

Sometimes when I hit “hard”, the card is going to take 6 minutes to show, while if I had chosen “good”, it would be 10 minutes, and it really matter for difficult cards, because if I wait 10 or 15 minutes, I might not remember it the way I would if I had waited for exactly 6 minutes, do you get it?

That’s why right now I use the phone timer, but it would be easier if a notification popped up.

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