Skip words you already know

Anki Scheduling
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I’m giving Anki a try from studying on Renshuu for half a year. I’d like to cover any gaps I have in basic vocab, but I’m seeing my daily schedule clogged with words I already know! On Renshuu, you can click a word to say you already know that word and it won’t count towards your daily limit. Is there a way to do that on Anki as well, or should I just increase my daily limit until I start seeing new words?

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If you’re talking about the limit on New cards you are introducing for the first time –

  • If you know them so well, do you need to introduce them at all? When they come up in your study session, you can suspend them [Suspend Card or Suspend Note] without grading them, and they won’t count towards your limit.
  • If you want to study them, but just not very often, you can increase your daily limit during this phase while you’re still getting a lot of them. Hopefully you’re also using the grading buttons correctly. Studying - Anki Manual

If you’re talking about a daily max reviews limit – better to leave that unlimited (“9999”), so you’ll always have all of your due cards available.

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That’s a job for these add-ons:
AnkiMorphs: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/472573498
FrequencyMan: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/909420026

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Are you using the modern (FSRS) scheduler, or the older one? With FSRS you shouldn’t have easy words repeating quite so often. The intervals just naturally become longer.

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Like mentioned: suspend, or pressing easy and have FSRS push them away usually works fine.

Another thing if you want to see them in the far future: mark/bury them when you see them, find in the browser, and set a manual interval. Its pretty nice that it allows randomly spreading them out, for example specifying “100-200!”. I’m not sure if this is ideal from the “algorithm perspective” but I did it for some easy geography cards.

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Thanks everyone, the Suspend feature works perfectly! Right now I’m using it on “trivial” words that I’ve known for a while. It’s really convenient for sorting through all the “basic” words in the decks I have.

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