Right now, I’m very interested in this topic, because I’m in the middle of 3 weeks of final reviews for a big test.
I also would like to see Anki more flexible in a way to allow the use of cards more like physical flashcards. You described well an “algorithm” that is intuitive and easy to do on physical flashcards, but it gets messy on Anki. Let me try to systematize some maneuvers typically used with physical flashcards:
A: kick card out of the deck
B: send ard to be seen soon
C: send card to the end
D: bring outsider card to the top
E: bring outsider card to the end
As I explained here, I’m doing (something like) the maneuver C by suspending the cards. It’s not intuitive at all, though, as suspended cards are not allowed to go into the filtered decks, when building it, so one might think that suspending a card would kick it out of the filtered deck.