Shorten the Hard, Good, Easy number of days

Anki Scheduling
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I want to shorten the intervals on the Due cards. I’m running v25.09.4, Python 3.13.5 Qt 6.9.1 Chromium 122, on windows 11.

Apologies in advance, I did search, but I’m not seeing the fields pictured in earlier posts on my install. I would like the Hard, Good, Easy options to look something like 1, 3, 5 days. I figured out how to set the maximum to 7 days and now I’m seeing 7d, 7d, 7d (down from 14d, 1.3mo, 2.3mo). I’m preparing for a test in about 1.5 weeks.

I set Lapses to 10m 1d 3d 5d, but this did not help. I do see a New Cards setting section, but I do not see a Due Cards settings section.

Thank you in advance! :slight_smile:

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Are you using FSRS or SM-2?

And do you permanently want to keep your intervals that short, or just temporarily while you’re preparing for an exam or something?

Assuming this is for something short-term use, it’s likely what you’re looking for is a filtered deck. If you uncheck the box for “Reschedule cards based on my answers”, you can customize what the answer buttons do for intervals in your filtered deck (but I think Easy will always send a card back to its home deck).

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Thank you!

How would I set these permanently too? Like, … for the next exam?

edited, … where do I find “Reschedule cards based on my answers”? I don’t see this under options.

Thank you x2!

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How long until the exam?

A filtered deck is the easiest way to do this, and if you uncheck the option for letting the filtered deck reschedule cards you can keep them in the deck with the intervals you set indefinitely (just don’t press an answer button that sends them back to their home deck).

If you actually want to make this a permanent thing, your best bet would be to use Anki’s custom scheduling feature, but that requires knowing a little JavaScript (at least enough to modify the example code). That will apply Anki-wide, you can’t do it to just one deck/preset.

You might also look for addons that can do what you want to do.

Neither of Anki’s two scheduling algorithms (FSRS and SM-2) are designed to do something like this. FSRS is based on a complex set of equations that model memory state, and you can’t really do anything with it other than do what it says, it’s not meant to be user-tweakable. SM-2 is more user-tweakable, you can set multipliers for what certain buttons do, but there’s no way to set a fixed interval for each button.

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When you create a filtered deck on Anki Desktop, there will be three checkboxes at the bottom:

  • Reschedule cards based on my answers in this deck
  • Enable second filter
  • Create/update this deck even if empty

You will only see this in the options for a filtered deck, regular decks don’t have that option.