Throughout the day I complete all my cards and by the end of the day I have no overdue items.
But as soon as a new day starts the statistics show overdue cards that supposedly should have appeared not the day before but a few days earlier.
So just yesterday, by the end of the day, the statistics showed that I had no overdue cards and that there were 120 or 145 cards due for review the next day. (I don’t remember the exact number shown there, but I think it was 120.)
Here is the information about the furthest card.
In the deck settings, the maximum reviews is set to 300. That’s more than enough to show the cards that are now overdue, but it doesn’t happen. By the end of the day, I get a message saying that all tasks are completed.
Here you can see that I didn’t even come close to reaching the 300 review limit.
Here is my list of add-ons.
Could it be that FSRS Helper is acting up? Because I see this pattern every day.
I’ll also note that, out of curiosity, when I finish my daily tasks, I’ve been several weeks to click “reschudule all cards” in the hope that it would change the overdue situation. But additional tasks appeared very rarely, and overall it didn’t affect the appearance of overdue cards at the start of the day.
I suspect they are overdue because they were buried.
There’s no way to tell that a card was buried at any given point, but that “furthest card” has “07” in its card type name. Does that suggest it has at least 6 other siblings? Did you study any of its siblings on the days since 30 April when it was due?
What are your burying settings in this “2.5” preset?
The Helper add-on doesn’t do anything unless you have it set up to or you tell it to. Are you having it run any actions automatically? If not, it’s not the reason for this.
If running a “reschedule all cards” (which you definitely don’t need to do every day) moves any of your cards to past due dates, that would show up immediately, not wait until the next day.
Bingo! That seems to be true.
This note indeed has 3 sibling cards, but right now there is one more card in the learning phase that’s being studied in parallel. The other two are still in the phase New.
Moreover, in deck 2.5, all three Burying settings have probably been enabled since late summer. And most likely, the second card entered the learning phase before Burying was activated.
Alright, now that the “problem” is clear, how can I get rid of them? And is there even a point?
Theoretically, I could reset the progress of the buried cards and keep only the type that should have been studied earlier, following the chronological order of the card type numbers — that is, first card type 1, then type 2, and so on.
Here are its settings. Nothing unusual as far as I can tell.
Just study them! When siblings are buried on they day they are due, they become overdue. The order cards are gathered minimizes the effects of that as much as possible – prioritizing Learn/Relearn cards over Review cards, and Review cards over New cards, Deck Options - Anki Manual . So you can just study them when they make it through.
But you shouldn’t reset the progress of any cards. This is a totally normal thing.
This isn’t the primary reason this is happening, but it might have some impact. You’ve got 4 settings there that are moving cards around automatically! The first one, “auto reschedule,” shouldn’t be necessary anymore, unless you’re running an outdated version of Anki on another platform. The rest of them are all sibling related, and I would expect sibling dispersion would be smart enough to not reschedule overdue cards further into the past, but maybe that’s not how it’s working.
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