# Vacation with FSRS - advancing and postponing tips **URL:** \ **Category:** FSRS\ **Created:** [April 24, 2024, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/vacation-with-fsrs-advancing-and-postponing-tips/43996 "2024-04-24T07:10:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@lele](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/lele)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/vacation-with-fsrs-advancing-and-postponing-tips/43996/1 "2024-04-24T07:10:41Z")
Dear Anki community, I just changed to FSRS as I have read that it allows you to advance and postpone cards. This is attractive to me, as I am planning to go on a 10 day vacation in one months time. During that time, I will not review cards but really take a time off studying. At the moment, I am reviewing roughly 100 cards per day meaning I would be left with 1000 build up cards after my vacation (not a very relaxing thought!). Do you have any tips how I could use the advance and postpone options to front load the cards (when should I start ideally?) and postpone some cards when coming back (or should I/can I try to advance all of them?)? I appreciate any tips! Thanks a lot in advance! ---
**Author:** ![Expertium](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/expertium/32/24176_2.png) [@Expertium](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Expertium)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/vacation-with-fsrs-advancing-and-postponing-tips/43996/2 "2024-04-24T11:36:20Z")
You can use “Advance” and advance 1000 cards right before your vacation, though it would be pretty difficult to go through all of them in a single day. I’m also not sure how many due cards you will have once you come back from vacation. Then you can use Postpone once you’re back, it will help you to get through the backlog. Overall, there isn’t any “standard” procedure for this, so my best recommendation is to use Advance the day before vacation and do as many cards as you realistically can, then use Postpone once you’re back. ---
**Author:** ![lele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@lele](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/lele)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/vacation-with-fsrs-advancing-and-postponing-tips/43996/3 "2024-04-24T12:18:15Z")
Thank you very much, @Expertium! Do you think it would also be an option to start “advancing” cards starting a couple of days prior to reduce the load on the last day before the vacation? Or is there a reason why this wouldn’t work/is considered inferior? ---
**Author:** ![Expertium](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/expertium/32/24176_2.png) [@Expertium](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Expertium)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/vacation-with-fsrs-advancing-and-postponing-tips/43996/4 "2024-04-24T12:48:09Z")
I guess you could try that, yeah ---
**Author:** ![lele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@lele](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/lele)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/vacation-with-fsrs-advancing-and-postponing-tips/43996/5 "2024-04-24T12:50:48Z")
Okay, I will, thank you! Do you have any idea how the math on this would work? If I started 10 day in advance and did 100 cards/day, would that “undo” my 10 day pause? I could imagine it is not as simple as that… or is it? ---
**Author:** ![Expertium](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/expertium/32/24176_2.png) [@Expertium](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Expertium)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/vacation-with-fsrs-advancing-and-postponing-tips/43996/6 "2024-04-24T13:11:43Z")
I’m not sure myself ---
**Author:** ![Keks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/keks/32/20537_2.png) [@Keks](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Keks)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/vacation-with-fsrs-advancing-and-postponing-tips/43996/7 "2024-04-24T13:13:23Z")
A similar topic. > [@Postponing Algorithm](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/postponing-algorithm/43173): > > I was wondering if there is any way of just delaying the fsrs algorithm completely? For example if I am having a long day and just want to take the day off anki without having to do extra work the next day is there any way to just delay the whole algorithm by a day or so? My problem is I want to take holidays and days off but I don’t want to come back with the huge extra work that you get from the weekends and holidays addon and the easy days on FSRS. I know this would not be optimal but it wou…