Troubleshoot my Anki deck study settings please

[KLM]

I’ve just restarted using Anki yesterday and changed my deck settings to learning steps: 15m, 1d, 6d.

This morning when reviewing cards that I had learned for the first time yesterday, the next review time associated with “good” was “1 day” - I was expecting this to be 6 days. I did the first 15 min step yesterday, and I completed the 1 day this morning. So why is the review time associated with pressing good stuck at “1 day” again?

[Danika_Dakika]

In all likelihood, your settings are fine. There are a few reasons this can appear to happen anyway –

1. Are you mistaking one card for another or do you have duplicate notes?
2. Are you being careful about syncing between devices?
3. Have you recently changed your learning steps while you had cards in Learn?

It would help to see the Card Info for this card to know for sure. (See the AnkiMobile manual for where to find that, and on a small screen, you may need to screenshot it in landscape mode to get all of the data. https://docs.ankimobile.net/)

[KLM]

Thanks so much for your reply.

1. No duplicate notes - I have just searched
2. Was definitely synced correctly I think - just opened my laptop to check.
3. I have been adjusting my card steps while the card is in Learn. My card settings were never to repeat the card 15 min, 1 day, 1 day though

Card information attached - screenshot from my laptop

[Danika_Dakika]

3. That will do it. If you have cards in Learn, that change can cause learning steps to be skipped or repeated. The cards that were in Learn when this happened will shake this off after you study them a couple more times.

If you have a large number of cards in Learn that are impacted by this, and you don’t want to wait – you can either “Reset” the cards to New (and they will start over with your current learning steps), or “Set Due Date” to graduate the cards to Review.

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I’m keeping an eye out for reproducible cases to see if we can get this fixed. Can you provide a few more details for me?

(a) How confident are you that you always synced at the start and end of every session, on every device, during these last few days? [I can see this card was only created on 1 Sept.]
(b) What were your old learning steps? [I can see that your new ones are 15m 1d 6d.]
(c) Did you make the change to your learning steps between the 1 Sept evening study and the 2 Sept morning study?
(d) Can you tell me how many cards you had in Learn when you changed the learning steps – or even how many cards you have in Learn now, since it’s so recent? Search for is:learn -is:suspended -is:review "preset:Ali Recommended MRCP" in the Browse window.

[dae]

(I can’t reproduce it as currently described. The steps I used were:

• add 1 card to a new profile, and rate it Again
• adjust the learning steps to 15m 1d 6d
• rate the card Good, observe it’s 1d
• move the clock forward, and observe Good now shows the graduating interval)

[Danika_Dakika]

Please don’t post the same thing all over the place. Folks can respond to you in your own thread.

Good interval longer than easy

I want my new cards to be again (5 min), hard (1 day), good (2 days), and easy (3 days), and my new cards do show this time interval. However, as I am in the learning stage, sometimes the good interval is longer than the easy interval. What settings should I adjust while still keeping my new cards at 5 min, 1 day, 2, days, 3 days? I attached a screenshot of the weird scheduling of a learning card and my current settings. For reference, I’m in second year of medical school studying for STEP 1.…

[KLM]

@Danika_Dakika

(a) How confident are you that you always synced at the start and end of every session, on every device, during these last few days? [I can see this card was only created on 1 Sept.]
(b) What were your old learning steps? [I can see that your new ones are 15m 1d 6d.]
(c) Did you make the change to your learning steps between the 1 Sept evening study and the 2 Sept morning study?
(d) Can you tell me how many cards you had in Learn when you changed the learning steps – or even how many cards you have in Learn now, since it’s so recent? Search for is:learn -is:suspended -is:review "preset:Ali Recommended MRCP" in the Browse window.

a) probably 80% sure
b) old were very similar - 15m 1d 6d I think
c) this I’m not sure about
d) 158 cards in learn now, I would estimate 50 at the time

[KLM]

the issue has now also resolved and did by 3 or 4 Sep

[Danika_Dakika]

Thank you for the additional stats and the update!