hello,
I’m desperately trying to find a way to pause reviews in one deck only (it’s a hard deck and I won’t have much time available because I’ll be away in two weeks for about one month). I tried Easy Days and Schedule a Break but they both seems to work for all decks only. did anyone find the trick ?
it would be even better if I could ajust the number of reviews (20% on this deck, 100% on all other decks) during this month off but I think I’m asking too much.
thank you.
As has always been said: when you come back, you’ll have a backlog, but you don’t need to do all of your reviews! Do a bit each day and it’ll be the same as if you spread the review out with some addon.
If you still insist, you can try this workaround (I haven’t tried it myself): set the DR of your deck to 70% and reschedule the cards with the FSRS helper addon (or the built-in one, which works but increases the size of your collection).
This should reduce the number of reviews you have for a while. After returning, slowly increase the DR and reschedule the cards each time.
Setting a low max review limit isn’t generally a good idea (because it hides your actual workload of due Review cards from you), but it seems like it could be a good fit for this situation. Set it low for while you’re gone (make sure your Review sort order is set to something helpful), and know that you’ll need to deal with the rest of the backlog when you get back (like with a Catch-up deck).
To prepare in advance, you can’t use “Advance cards” (FSRS Helper add-on) on a single deck, but you can apply a similar idea in your own Filtered Deck to pull some of those cards forward in the next couple weeks. This should help thin out the backlog waiting for you in the future.
High-Stability/long-interval cards will be affected the least by studying them early. Use a search filter like prop:due>=14 prop:due<=28 – not due in the next 14d (because you’re already studying those cards), but due in the 2 weeks after that – combined with prop:s>200 or prop:ivl>200 (either could work) – S greater than 200d, interval longer than 200d. Run the search in Browse and see how many cards you get, so you can fine tune it with numbers relevant for your own collection, and it will give you a suitable portion of your due cards), then Edit > Create Filtered Deck.
For the next 2 weeks, after you study your currently due cards each day, you can rebuild that Filtered Deck to study a quantity of future-due cards. Because the time-span is a fixed 2 weeks, it will advance day-by-day to cover the entire month you’re away.