Hello everyone,
I have a deck of cloze notes, and to optimise the learning effort I want to study high frequency German words first. For that, I have a custom note type with a field “Frequency”, ranging from 1 to 7 (from least frequent to most frequent words of the language). This is a custom deck, and I add new notes of varying frequencies to the deck on daily basis.
For reviewing, I have a filtered deck that pulls only new notes from the main deck (I use the following expression to build the filtered deck: “is:new”). The option of “cards selected by” is set to “Random” to get the notes randomly. But this filter does not take into account the actual frequency (the “Frequency” field of the notes).
Is there a way to prioritise the order in which the new notes are shown? What I want is to see, for example, 10 notes that have the highest frequency value (e.g. 7, 6). Once I have run out of notes with frequency 7 and 6, I want to see 5, 4 and so on. As soon as a new note with the frequency value of 7 is added, I want to see it first.
I have tried using the following filter, but it seems that it does not take into account the order of predicates of the filtered deck:
is:new AND (Frequency:7 OR Frequency:6 OR Frequency:5)
My hope was that the filter would take the limit (e.g. 10), and evaluate it following the predicates in the OR clause, but it did not work.
So far I have found the suggestion of rebuilding the deck manually using the reposition function (order by frequency first, then select all new notes, reposition and then show them), but it does not look sustainable, as I would need to do this every time I create new notes to push high frequency words to the top.
Is there a better alternative?