V3 scheduling and parent deck options

Anki Scheduling
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Recently tried the V3 scheduler and really like a lot of the changes to more scheduling options. However, I started to think about my option groups.

Most of my Anki are vocab words mined from books. Here’s how my deck tree looks like:

  • Vocab (DEFAULT)
    • Book Series X (DEFAULT)
      • Book, Series X, Vol 1 (MY OPTION GROUP)
      • Book, Series X, Vol 2 (MY OPTION GROUP)
    • Book Asdf (MY OPTION GROUP)
  • Writing (DEFAULT2)
    • Level 3 (OPTION GROUP 2)
    • …

Basically the Default option group just acts as a dummy option group, since it has to have something. But I can’t give everything my actual options group, because then I would not get the two new cards a day from each deck that I specified (because the root deck max new cards as 2 would limit it). It’s a bit weird but I don’t know if there’s any other way. In addition, I needed to create now another dummy DEFAULT2, because I want the display order for new cards to be random there. But all the other deck options come from subdecks? Talk about confusing!

I also want to just keep everything collapsed and click Vocab and study everything. I have dozens of decks so going through them individually is not an option. But now with V3 the ordering comes from the deck you click instead of globally. It feels a bit unintuitive I have to change my DUMMY deck options instead of my “actual options”

I’m a bit scared/confused how to know which options come from the deck and which from the subdeck. I hope nothing else but the display order options, otherwise it will majorly mess up the intervals? I don’t really see why everything is not determined by the subdeck options? What if I want to some subdecks words to come randomly and some in order? Clickin the root deck forces it’s own behaviour on everything…

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Options are taken from each card’s deck where it makes sense to do so, but for options that affect how cards are gathered/sorted as a whole, options can be taken from only one place. Anki uses the deck you click on in that case, so you can do things like have a separate display order for your writing deck.

It has been suggested that daily limits be adjustable separately from deck options, and such a change may come in the future.

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