PLEASE help. Want to see unseen cards

[conniemacsweeney]

I am new to Anki and am currently using it to study for an exam which I have in 2 weeks. I am so stressed as I am struggling to use it.

I want to see my unseen cards. I have seen many places that you type is:new.

When I do this in 8000 cards it says 0 of 0 cards. I just want to see the cards I haven’t studied. I have the due date add on and think I’ve gone really wrong somewhere. I have the latest update.

I’m dying to work out how to use it properly as I spend all my days grappling with Anki rather than taking in any information. I am technologically incompetent so in retrospect it may have been better to choose a more user friendly platform but as it is all my cards are here and I just want to study them. If anyone can help me I will be so happy.

Settings + add-ons in screenshots. Trying to cram lots of cards in week before exam.

[jcznk]

You could try using a Filtered deck. To create one, go to the main window and press F (or go to Tools > Create Filtered Deck)

Then use these settings:

• search is:new
• limit to 9999
• cards selected by: your choice (e.g., Random)
• Reschedule cards based on my answers in this deck: yes

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If this does not fix it and/or you need further help, please ask!

[conniemacsweeney]

Hi thanks so much for responding. When I do this it says no cards match my search. But I know I haven’t ever studied even half of them

[jcznk]

If you go to the Browser and search is:new what do you see?

[conniemacsweeney]

0 cards

[jcznk]

If you only typed is:new (without any other text. E.g. not like in your screenshot, where the query is "deck:Clinical Sciences" is:new) that should mean there are no more new cards in your collection.

Maybe it has something to do with the add-on Deadline2. I’ll now do some testing.
Edit: the add-on seems to only give you an estimate of how many cards you need to study, and doesn’t appear to directly affect the collection, so it is probably not the culprit.

[conniemacsweeney]

I’m not sure as I’m so convinced some decks I have never even looked at. I’m not sure what the culprit is for this but I don’t know how I can rectify it realistically. Do you know of a way to study the ‘least seen’ cards. So ones I haven’t studied as much.

[jcznk]

To achieve that, you can create a filtered deck with this search filter: introduced:3, which will include all the cards that were first studied in the last 3 days.
You could also use rated:3 which will give you all the cards that were studied (either for the first or the nth time) in the last 3 days.

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By the way, if you want, you could upload a copy of your collection to some file sharing site like Gofile - Your all-in-one storage solution and then send it to me in a private message, so that I can take a direct look at it and try to understand what’s going on.

To export your collection go to File > Export

[conniemacsweeney]

Ok how shall I send it to you? I’d appreciate that so much

[jcznk]

I sent you a private message, you can reply me there.

[sprvlcn]

Where did you get the decks? Did you create them yourself, or download them from someone else.

It’s possible that you imported the other user’s study history.