Sort order - due date, then deck

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Hello everyone, I have one master deck for German and under it are 4 nested decks. I would like to be able to click on German (master deck) and then first study all cards in first nested deck in Ascending difficulty review order (this is set in individual decks) and after finishing it next nested deck again with Ascending difficulty, and so on until I finish them all. I cant mix cards from different decks.

I have found in manual:
Due date, then deck: This also prioritizes cards that have been waiting longer, and then shows review cards for each subdeck in turn.
Does this mean if all cards are due today then it will apply deck settings OR is due date internally handled not as days but as fractional numbers so cards will be mixed from different decks?

Thanks for any tips in advance.

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If you want to go deck-by-deck, the best parent-deck sort order available is “Deck, then due date.”

You are correct though, “Due date, then deck” – when all cards are due on the same day – will also go through deck-by-deck.

No, for each subdeck, the order will not fall back on what you have for any individual subdeck.

No, the cards are just due “today” – not at a particular time today.

If a straightforward example of “Due date, then deck” would help, it should pretty much look like this –

  • Due 2 days ago
    • Deck A
    • Deck B
  • Due yesterday
    • Deck B
    • Deck C
    • Deck D
  • Due today
    • Deck A
    • Deck D
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Thank you for explanations.

What I want to achieve is deck-by-deck and within the deck ascending difficulty, is that even possible?

Soo, if I understand correctly, in case of all cards being Due today, then both “Deck, then due date” & “Due date, then deck” will go deck-by-deck. But how are then cards sorted within these decks?

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Not through a parent deck. Obviously, since it’s only 4 subdecks, it wouldn’t be too hard to click on each one in turn and study it alone. Then you can use asc difficulty for each of them.

Since “all cards due being Due today” is the default (most basic, most typical) “situation” for Anki, the only thing I can think of for it to fall back on is the default order, which is random. Anki wants to avoid showing you cards consistently in the same order, so where there’s no sort, there should be a random factor. Perhaps someone else can peer at the code and get a better sense of it?

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