I could use some help. I have searched in the forums, I even downloaded the manual, read what I could and asked ChatGPT, but nothing seems to work and/or I don’t know what to do. I need to know what setting to have so that while working on my interday/learning (red) cards, they actually come up at the correct interval after getting the card wrong. Currently, regardless what the interval is, the card does not reappear until I have gone through all the interday/learning cards. I am using enabled FSRS as well. What settings do I need in order to see the card when I’m supposed to/want to vs at the end of the deck?
Current, settings below (hopefully):
Do you have a big backup of cards in Learn/Relearn? If you are starting the day with leftover short-interval Learn/Relearn cards that you didn’t graduate to Review yesterday, then they are overdue, and they will be shown first. [They could only be “interday” cards if they were on a very long step. You don’t mention your steps, so I’m assuming that’s not it.]
Short-interval Learn/Relearn cards will always be the priority and will be shown as close to their delay as possible, BUT they won’t get in line in front of any of your other Learn/Relearn cards that have been waiting longer.
Ok, 1) thanks for getting back to me.
2) I had an exam and just had to “deal with it.”
3) Here’s some additionaly (and maybe some new) information. I have a pretty big backlog now. I’m on to a new class, but I still want to whittle my previous class cards down (i guess they’re now all overdue).
4) I just watched the Anking video regarding the update to Anki and FSRS.
5) I struggle with Anki terminology so here’s how I talk about things new cards (blue), learning cards (reds), review cards (greens).
6) I would like to do whatever is “red,” first thing in the morning. My current intervals are 51s, 1.5hrs, and 6m for lapse as suggested by FSRS. When I’m doing new cards, if I get the card wrong, it’ll come back in 51s. If I get a red card wrong, I won’t see it again until I’m done with all the reds. I don’t understand this.
7) I just tried to apply new settings to my backlog deck to what Anking said re: when you can’t get through all your cards i.e. descending retrievability. While this doesn’t make sense to me “they” say it’s the best setting. Ok. Sure. Regardless, when I apply it to my backlogged deck (which has reds and greens in it), it definitely doesn’t show me the highest retrievability cards. I can’t figure out how it’s determining what cards I see. They are definitely not new cards.
8) Does any of that make sense? If not, let me know and I will try to get you the correct information.
That’s what I answered above. If you have Learn/Relearn “red” cards that have been waiting longer, that latest red card will have to wait.
If you’re talking about a strictly backlog deck, it wouldn’t have any New cards in it, right? If it’s a mix of Learn/Relearn and Review cards, the same rules will apply – you’ve got to graduate your Learn/Relearn cards to Review. The sort order you chose only applies to Review cards.
Thanks again for getting back to me. I went for a walk this evening and it occurred to me I was basically thinking of the Learn/Relearn in the same way as the Review cards, and that’s not how Anki does it, or at least I don’t think it does. I guess it’s not that much of an issue with my current class deck, but do you know of a way/setting/add-on for my previous class (backlogged) deck where I can get the learning/relearning cards to act like the review cards in that a card I got wrong shows back up in a more timely manner than at the end of all the learning/relearning cards? (sorry, again, I’m not confident in the words I’m using or how I’m using them compared to how Anki defines them)
But does that previous-class deck have a backlog of red-Relearn cards (which would be unusual) or of green-Review cards (more common)? [It seems like you won’t still be introducing New cards in that old deck, so we don’t need to consider Learn cards for now.] You’re saying you want them to behave more like the Review cards, but you’re either talking about them the first time you see them, which is not controlled by a step timer – or after they lapse, when they are the same red-Relearn cards that we’re talking about.
I think we still have a disconnect here, so I’m going to give you a more specific example. Imagine you’ve got relearning steps of 10m 45m –
- You’ve got 0 red. Your next green-Review card lapses, so it is set for a 10min delay. It will be shown again in about 10 min.
- You’ve got 5 red, all on the 45m relearning step. Your next green-Review card lapses, so it is set for a 10min delay. It will be shown again in about 10 min, and it doesn’t wait for those other 5 Relearn cards because they aren’t to the end of their delay yet.
- You’ve got 100 red, on a mix of the 10m and 45m relearning steps, leftover from yesterday (or longer), so they are all overdue. You won’t see any green-Review cards for a while, because you need to handle your overdue Relearn cards first. Your next red-Relearn card is one you still don’t know, so you grade it Again and it is set for a 10min delay. It will get in line behind all of those overdue Relearn cards, so it is likely to be a lot longer than 10 minutes before you see it.
Does that help?
If we’re on the same page now – no, the only way to avoid all of that is to graduate all of those red-Relearn cards back to Review so they aren’t in the way.
