Some users prefer to have one deck in which the rest are located. But at the same time, they do not want the cards to be mixed up during the review.
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Sorry if this is one of those cases where you just wanted to vent and weren’t looking for an answer, but I’m socially dense.
Let’s say I have a main Geography deck, and 3 subdecks: Global, US, and Canada (Global would quiz you on countries, US and Canada quizzes you on the states on provinces within respectively).
“due date, then deck” sorts by due date first, and breaks ties by subdeck. I’ll be studying all the oldest due dates first, and cards with the same due date I’ll study Global first, then US, then Canada.
“deck, then due date” sorts by subdeck, and breaks ties by due date. I’ll be studying all the Global cards first in order from oldest due date to newest, then all the US, then all Canada.
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Create a separate topic for discussion.
This already is a separate topic for sort orders
It would look much better if there was a separate function for Invert sorting.
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This ratio is kind of being accomplished with my idea here. Ultimately Stability is a better proxy for what people think of as difficulty than Difficulty itself. If there’s a brand new card, you don’t know it well yet, so it actually has a higher subjective difficulty despite the fact that it will become easier faster (low Difficulty score). So Stability shows you that.
Cards with lower stabilities are going to get buried faster if you are not keeping up with your daily reviews. That’s balancing Retrievability and difficulty in a way. If it’s too much of a slog to get through, you are going to stop for that day. The next day is going to be much easier at first and if you dig deep enough, you’ll eventually get back to that slog if you want.
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Exactly my thinking after you posted that image on beta thread. A lot of the current sort orders are simply reverses of each other.
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Here’s a cool solution I found for problems like this.
Are you the kind of person who skims the beginning just to see whether to read the entire thing? You’re in luck.
We’ve prepared one sentence, one image, one thousand word, and one essay summaries of the concepts behind startup societies and network states. Just click those links if you’re impatient. And of course, for the full experience, you can read it one page at a time.
You wouldn’t need to do all this, but you could have a TL;DR at the top of every section where you tell people “Don’t wanna think about it? Just do this and you’ll be fine.”
That would basically solve a lot of this. Might confuse some people though 
Unfortunately, LMSherlock hasn’t tried ascending/descending stability. I just asked him to do that.
Just click on the decks then 
It’s probably one of those people who have very specific preferences on every domain of life, like have you seen people with a long list of films in the order they like them the most? I never get such people.
Totally agree
I think power users should make their own fork and include everything possible. Like they’d have 30 different sort orders, FSRS-5 but also FSRS4 and FSRS 4.5 just in case someone wants to test them and also SM2 and the now removed SM5 implementation of Anki. Then include all kinds of crazy feature imported from SuperMemo. Grade now, Dilute, Forget, Remember, etc. etc. I don’t even remember all the names.
Or we could have 2 different layouts
Also
I think most anki users don’t mix all their cards into one pile.
Yeah, but I don’t mind my reviews getting mixed up in a pile. “due date, then deck” and “deck, then due date” would be what I call “Anki fetishes”.
I’m surprised. I’d expect almost everyone who is spending their time on a flash card forum to be exactly that kind of person. I know I am.
If I have an objective way of doing something, sure. But preferences are subjective and I have no idea how can one have specificity in them. I can tell you some of my favorite films but I have no idea how to rank any of them.
So I just clicked the link and you’re ranking them by time/review. Overall time is the better metric and Retrievability Descending turns out to be the best.
Difficulty Ascending does beat it in time/review, but you had to do almost 1000 more reviews.
Also, does time per “remembered card” mean it’s disregarding time spent on forgotten cards and not counting them in the overall review count?