# Searching for cards that are due to be learned for the first time today **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [June 10, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/searching-for-cards-that-are-due-to-be-learned-for-the-first-time-today/62491 "2025-06-10T18:53:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ndv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ndv](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/ndv)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/searching-for-cards-that-are-due-to-be-learned-for-the-first-time-today/62491/1 "2025-06-10T18:53:08Z")
I want to study all my decks at once, so I can just sit down and study instead of going through each deck separately. Sadly there isn’t a built in feature to do this, so I’m trying to do it with a filtered deck. Currently, I have a filtered deck with the search term `-deck:~unused (is:due OR is:learn)`. My decks screen currently looks like this: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/9/1/914ab2728227fcc1fb2925b22e7be6a78f731aeb.png) So the “Due” and “Learn” cards are all together in the same deck, nice. But I also want to study the “New” cards as well, by which I mean the 11 cards corresponding to the blue numbers in the screenshot. Unfortunately, if I add `is:new` to the search term, it will match not only the 11 cards that I should be learning today, but also the thousands of other ‘new’ cards that I’m not due to learn yet. So my question is, how can I change the search term for the filtered deck, such that it will match the 11 ‘New’ cards as displayed in the screenshot, but not all the other cards whose status is ‘new’. * * * Note: there is a [previous thread](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/search-flag-for-filtering-all-new-cards-of-the-deck-that-are-due-today/14718) asking for basically the same thing, but I’m not sure people understood what it was asking for, so I’ve tried to make it clearer. ---
**Author:** ![sorata](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/sorata/32/34115_2.png) [@sorata](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/sorata)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/searching-for-cards-that-are-due-to-be-learned-for-the-first-time-today/62491/2 "2025-06-10T19:19:41Z")
An easier to solve the original problem is creating a parent deck for all the other decks you have. > [@ndv](#): > > if I add `is:new` to the search term, it will match not only the 11 cards that I should be learning today, but also the thousands of other ‘new’ cards that I’m not due to learn yet. There’s no specific search term for that but you can add a second filter with `is:new` and limit the gathered cards to only 11. ---
**Author:** ![ndv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ndv](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/ndv)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/searching-for-cards-that-are-due-to-be-learned-for-the-first-time-today/62491/3 "2025-06-10T20:08:35Z")
I’ll try it with a parent deck. Actually I might use both, because with a filtered deck I can sort by ascending retention, and that seems kind of a game-changer - I can study the ones I’m about to forget first and if I don’t have time the rest can wait. Parent decks aren’t very flexible about the order, so I’ll probably just use that for the new cards and the filtered deck for the rest. > There’s no specific search term for that but you can add a second filter with `is:new` and limit the gathered cards to only 11. Won’t that just choose a random(?) 11 cards, not the specific 11 corresponding to cards due to be learned today? ---
**Author:** ![sorata](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/sorata/32/34115_2.png) [@sorata](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/sorata)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/searching-for-cards-that-are-due-to-be-learned-for-the-first-time-today/62491/4 "2025-06-10T20:10:20Z")
> [@ndv](#): > > Won’t that just choose a random(?) 11 cards, not the specific 11 corresponding to cards due to be learned today? Yeah, but you can change the order right? ---
**Author:** ![ndv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ndv](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/ndv)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/searching-for-cards-that-are-due-to-be-learned-for-the-first-time-today/62491/5 "2025-06-10T20:16:33Z")
The issue isn’t just the order, it’s that the number of cards I learn per day depends on the deck. If I limit it to just a set number it won’t respect that. ---
**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/searching-for-cards-that-are-due-to-be-learned-for-the-first-time-today/62491/6 "2025-06-10T20:51:10Z")
> [@ndv](#): > > … with a filtered deck I can sort by ascending retention … > > Parent decks aren’t very flexible about the order … If you mean Ascending _Retrievability_ – you can use that just fine in an empty parent deck. And if you leave the daily limits for the parent deck unlimited (9999), then it will just collect everything the rest of your decks would already have been showing you – the same Review cards and the same New cards. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/5/e/5edbfe014ece0115a11ce672e8c13efdff26cb04.png) ---
**Author:** ![matta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/matta/32/5126_2.png) [@matta](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/matta)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/searching-for-cards-that-are-due-to-be-learned-for-the-first-time-today/62491/7 "2025-06-11T01:56:52Z")
I have about four decks for learning Latin. I have created two Custom or Filtered decks, which I use to study them all. As follows. 1.New cards have the following Search query: (“deck:DECK1” is:new -tag:Advanced) OR (“deck:DECK2” is:new) OR (“deck:DECK3” is:new) OR (“deck:DECK4” is:new -tag:Subjunctive) . Limit 50. 2. All cards due today with the following Search query: (“deck:DECK1” is:due -tag:Advanced) OR (“deck:DECK2” is:due) OR (“deck:DECK3” is:due) OR (“deck:DECK4” is:due -tag:Subjunctive) . Limit 500. You will also note that I include a couple of other filters for some of the decks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/searching-for-cards-that-are-due-to-be-learned-for-the-first-time-today/62491/8 "2025-07-11T01:57:30Z")
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