Suggestion: Learning Queue Card Limit

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Hello @dae. This is an ancient suggestion which I hope you breathe some life back into.

There should be a limit to the number of learning cards in rotation at any given time.

Suppose you have ended up with 300 cards interday learning cards from yesterday. You fail Card 1 and can only see it again until you have went through the rest of all 299 interday review cards. By then you would have forgotten card 1 and the cycle continues. That is too painful and demotivating.

Therefore, it would not be a bad idea if there is a limit to how many learning cards a person could juggle with back and forth at any given moment.

  • Splitting those 300 into managable chunks of 5 cards at a time is much more feasible that trying to get through the 300 cards at once.

  • Anki could recognize the number of consecutive unique cards that have been failed and when that number reaches 5 (or whatever number a person assigns that to), Anki doesn’t move forward until the next rating of all those 5 cards becomes Good.

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Lately I’ve been doing reviews a bit similar to that purpose by filtered deck, like this:

+ Parent deck (limit 20)
 - Filtered deck (no reschedule, relearning 200+)

Review 20 cards and increase today’s card limit with Custom Study when the card count reaches 0.

  • Custom stuy → Increase today’s review card limit

As you say it seems almost impossible to remember when there are 100+ relearning cards. In my case I can memorize 10-20 cards.

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Yes I do the same, but filtered decks are inconvenient since you have to keep making them which if you have hundreds of relearning cards it would be not viable. Also you would want the chunk of cards you finished to get back into rotation whereas with a filtered deck, when they run out they run out.

Make it built into Anki.

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