Hello. My suggestion is to display total study duration on the stats board in units of hours. Currently on the Linux client’s stats, total time studied displays amounts in what I could at best describe as calendar units; once it passes 24 hours it goes into days, (maybe weeks), months. It seems to…

makes sense. people talk about learning something for 10,000 hours, not 13 months.

Discussed previously – [image] Why does Anki display study time in months? Suggestions Re-reading the original post, it looks like I was incorrectly assuming this was about the buttons, and not the message shown at the bottom of the deck list / top of the stats. I’m still …

The previous discussion wasn’t able to convince me that it’s a good idea as the talk was mostly about precision which I don’t think is important. But, it now appears to me that changing the units make comparisons harder. Is it more obvious here that 29d is half of 1.9m? Or, is it more obvious that 2…

Thank you, when I searched for previous threads I couldn’t find any.

[image] sorata: I see “Your flight is in 48h” not “Your flight is in 2d”. The latter can even sound bizarre. I’m not sure I follow this as an example. I think the first sounds like an odd thing to say about a flight that is 2d away – while the second sounds completely normal. [image] Nezm…

I’m not sure I follow this as an example. I think the first sounds like an odd thing to say about a flight that is 2d away – while the second sounds completely normal. I think the stress is on ‘see’. When you talk about your flight to others, you’d say ‘my flight is in two days’, but if there’s a…

(discourse shows you a quote button.) [image] Nezmaka: I think it’s not quite an analogous example, since here it’s about duration and not accumulated time. Yes, that’s a slightly different case. On a different note, I have found some people who think fractional months are an A11Y issue. I…

In addition, Steam does this for their statistics for their games; in hours played. Maybe it would be a nice ego boost to see that Anki Study times overtaking Steam hours played, etc.

I commented on this issue in this recent reddit post . It would’ve been easier to see if Anki displayed “4.18 days (100.32 hours)” instead of me having to bring up the calculator.

I would like to give my arguments in favor of displaying time studied in hours: Anki already shows % of days studied in parentheses, which isn’t any different from my suggestion above. We don’t think in terms of studying for days or months, we study for at most a few hours at a time. Hours is the …

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sorata June 2, 2025, 3:49pm 15

I decided against pinging people and just sharing the poll here:

Topic		Replies	Views
Poll: Use "Hours" in "Total time" stats? Suggestions	6	107	June 3, 2025
Why does Anki display study time in months? Suggestions	26	1184	May 12, 2024
Absolute dates for stats/reviews time axis Suggestions	1	64	June 14, 2025
Suggestion: Make Study Time Display Format Consistent Suggestions	19	375	August 4, 2025
Reduce precision of time studied today Suggestions	24	673	March 16, 2024

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