I am trying to get all of my mcat cards that are under the prop ease of 2.4 to have its own filtered deck so I can work on them. But, whenever I create that deck, the total number is shown as 403+49+642=1,094.
in contrast, when I browse the deck to look up prop ease cards under 2.4, I am getting a total of 1,849
this makes me think that some of the cards that I need in my filtered deck are missing and Im not sure why since I set the limit in the new filtered deck to 2,000. Any help would be appreciated! thanks
You seem to have added the search to the name of the filtered deck which obviously wouldn’t work. Also, I believe that ease doesn’t exist (or at least doesn’t make sense) if you’re using FSRS. There are other FSRS specific properties you can use instead.
Thank you for the feedback, I do have a couple questions
I added the search to the name of the filtered deck for reference purposes. How would that affect anything? And how does the ease not make sense? It would just be anything with an ease less than 240%, correct?
also, for FSRS, which property would you suggest using instead
thanks! Where is the card info screen you are referring to? Also, how do I check if my anki is using AFAIK or FSRS? I have version 25.09. It seems like prop ease is working since when I go to browse–> search and type in a prop ease filter it will show cards (in the initial post you can see when I typed in prop:ease<2.4 into search, 1849 cards appeared)
AFAIK means “As far as I know”. You can check if you are using FSRS or SM-2 by opening the deck options, then scrolling down to the “FSRS” section. If it is enabled, you use FSRS; else, it is SM-2.
thanks! I just enabled my FSRS and tried using prop:d>=0.3 but im having the same issue as earlier where when I create the actual deck, I am getting a total amount of cards less then when I browse the deck.
So basically, I want to create a deck of the cards I am struggling with in my mcat bio deck. So this is what I entered into the search bar:
“deck:new mcat deck::Primary study cards::bio qbank” prop:d>=0.3
doesnt that mean that there are a couple hundred cards that are not being shown since the total shown in browse is 982? And if thats the case, how do I fix that?
Add this to your search in Browse: -is:suspended -is:buried -deck:filtered. Does that change your count?
Filtered decks cannot pull in cards that are suspended, buried, or already in a different filtered deck.
– Filtered Decks - Anki Manual
Another relevant question is – what are you trying to do with these D > 30% cards? Difficulty isn’t something you need to fix, it’s a component of the memory state that allows FSRS to schedule your cards more accurately. If you’ve optimized your parameters and set your Desired Retention [DR] at a reasonable level, you should let the algorithm deal with scheduling. Deck Options - Anki Manual
I am trying to look through my difficult cards to modify them slightly (add more images/context to make them easier to remember.) would this be a good way of going about that?
Are they built into your Filtered deck right now? You can remove the -deck:filtered part and it will show you those cards. Then I suspect the rest that you got in your original search are suspended or buried and can’t be built into the deck. Search prop:d>=.3 (is:suspended OR is:buried) to see just those.
Filtered decks are generally for studying. You don’t need a Filtered deck to do that – you can just search them up in Browse. As you scroll through them, you can edit them immediately, or flag/mark/tag the ones you want to edit.
But isn’t drawing your line at D=30% capturing way too many cards for you to call those “my difficult cards”? You should move that line much higher, or use some other more productive property like lapses – Searching - Anki Manual.
from my understanding, D=30% means that those cards have 30% difficulty. I thought that would be a good percentage to use, but is there a better recommended one?
also, in the anki manual it recommends to filter cards that have a lapse greater than 3– would that better than dealing with the percentages filter?
And thank you so much for all your help! I just have thousands of anki cards that I used for the mcat and I am trying to maximize my efficiency with anki when I retake it this time around
That’s 30% on a scale of 0-100% – pretty low on the scale. But regardless, if your search is returning 600/900/1800 cards, that’s obviously too many for the sort of project you’re attempting. You can look at Stats > Card Difficulty to see what the range of D values is in this deck. [Or you can show the “Difficulty” column in the Browse window, and sort by it.]
That’s not a recommendation – it’s just an example of how the search syntax works. I can’t tell you whether 3 lapses is a small number in your deck/collection or a large number. If you want to know where to draw the line for lapses, you should look at your actual deck – show the “Lapses” column and sort by it.
I am having trouble finding the “lapses” column. Online it says I need to go to Browse and then click on the “column name” which I have done but I am not seeing a lapse option
in contrast, when I browse the deck to look up prop ease cards under 2.4, I am getting a total of 1,849
