I’ve been trying to get all the new cards of my packs on top so that when I start studying a pack, I first have to go through all the new cards before studying the other ones. I abandoned during the year because nothing seemed to work but I know that my revisions will be much more efficient if I sort this problem out.
To do that I already went in the options of my packs and selected the order succession for new cards “before the old ones” for my preset. But it keeps showing me the old cards first.
I’m sorry I’m on the french version
Thank you very much to anyone that takes the time to help me and for this great app, I’m just trying to make the most out of it !
If you’ve selected the New/Review order for New cards before Review cards, you’re on the right track. Next, make sure you are setting that on the correct deck. Anki will follow the display order of the deck you click to study, not the subdeck the cards are actually in.
But, if this is the start of a study day, you’ve got 36 cards in Learn/Relearn that you didn’t graduate to Review yesterday. Learn/Relearn cards are always the highest priority and will be shown as close to the end of their step delay as possible. With 1m and 10m steps, by now they are overdue, so they will be shown first.
When you have too many cards to successfully graduate all of your Learn/Relearn cards to Review before the end of the day, you don’t have room to introduce more New cards – which will immediately become even more Learn cards. If you don’t want to see Learn/Relearn cards first tomorrow, you need to graduate them to Review today.
While I’m noticing things – at the bottom of your screenshot, your Review sort order shouldn’t be blank, and I’m not sure how it would get saved that way. You might want to take a look at that.
Thanks a lot already for your detailed answer. I’m starting to understand the app much better.
I have one last question, is there a way I can skip the Learn/Relearn cards I didn’t graduate the day before and just directly start learning the new cards at the beginning of every day ?
You could technically use a Filtered deck for that (there are a few hurdles, but it’s not impossible). But before you head down that road, you have to consider what will happen next. Those New cards you introduce will have to make it through Learn too. Are they just going to join the Learn/Relearn cards you have already sitting there overdue, and not getting the amount of attention that cards often need when they are just starting out? If so, what’s the point of introducing them now?
Thank you very much again for your response and your time. I’ll take a look into those filtered decks and will stop using it if it doesn’t work out for me. Have a nice Saturday.
If you want to learn all the easiest cards first, you can suspend any you don’t get right soon enough, and unsuspend them later.
This add-on will help you see how many times you’ve failed the card before: See Previous Card Ratings in Reviewer
