Reoptimize not finding all reviews

[Danika_Dakika]

@kettle736

Just to clarify, do you mean if the “ignore reviews before” is set to October the 20th it ignores all review history for a card first seen prior to the 20th both before and after that date?

Yep.

I believe it was intended to be more like a cut-off, but it turns out that FSRS can’t deal with “headless” review history, so it has to exclude everything from that card.

@kettle736

At the time my maximum answer seconds was still set to 120 as I thought auto-advance would overrule it, and auto-advance was 10 seconds, although it wasn’t automatically answering it for me as “seconds to show answer for” was set to 0, it was just displaying the back, then I was manually marking it as wrong after examining it first (which would take a different amount of time depending on how hard it was).

“Maximum answer seconds” is for record-keeping, statistics, nothing more. If for some reason you feel like auto-advance is a good fit for you – at least it sounds like you’ve figured out how to use it correctly.

But I’m still not sure why you decided to exclude your review history. Were you getting odd parameters or outcomes when you optimized on your whole history?