Re: Card order not really random

[Tim]

Are you using the latest version of AnkiDroid (2.0.1) and also Anki?

If you review with Anki Desktop do you see the same behavior?

On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:16:13 AM UTC+9, dylanp...@gmail.com wrote:

Hey all

I've been using Anki for about a year now with Italian. I made all my own cards and took care of it myself.

I started playing around with Portuguese and I downloaded a Portuguese deck with like 5000 cards. Obviously, a lot of these cards I don't need to know as a beginner. Things like "reactor" are not high on my to learn list. So I went through quickly and just suspended some cards I knew I wouldn't need right now. But there are 5000, so I didn't go through them all. I selected to have new cards at random and to have sibling cards not near each other. By the way, the all above has been done on my desktop.

I review with my phone and ankidroid. When I come to a word I know I don't know I just use the "bury" feature. But the next day, any cards I bury are the first cards to come up. Also, all the sibling cards come up right away. So I'll get something like "leite", and then the next card is "milk". For every word. I've double checekd on both ankidroid and on my desktop to have the cards in random order and not near sibling cards, but the program is doing the exact opposite. Any suggestions?

[Tim]

OK thanks, there are some known issues with random order, which should be fixed in the next release.
I thought the sibling bug had been fixed though,

On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 8:18:47 AM UTC+9, dylanp...@gmail.com wrote:

All of my programs are up to date... I haven't tried reviewing on the desktop so I'll try that and see what happens.

[Tim]

Will wait for Damien to comment, or you could try posting to the Anki Desktop forum.

On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 8:25:08 AM UTC+9, dylanp...@gmail.com wrote:

I tried using Anki Desktop, same thing happened. The first new card it showed me was a card I've buried multiple times now.

[Damien Elmes]

Random order shuffles cards when they are added, not every time you start reviewing.

[to.mor...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I'm new to Anki and Ankidroid and it has become a lifesaver since it is the only program I can install a custom Burmese font on and practice Burmese on my Samsung Galaxy SIII.

Yet I find the complexity of the program options and lack of simple explanations for them overwhelms what should be more essential simple functions: such as the random sorting option. The only way I've found to sort my flashcards is to export them from my desktop Anki onto some location in my computer, then to import them having checked show new cards in random order. However, when I export this .apkg again and transfer and install on Ankidroid on my phone, I'm unable to preserve the random order, it reverts back to the very original order of import/creation (I originally created the cards by import of a text file and manually attached audio to each card). It's not such a pain to have to re-import the cards to Ankidesktop every time I want a new random order, but it's quite unfortunate that I have no way to view the cards in random order on my phone. I have very little time to study at my pc and am mostly on the run, so it would be awesome if Ankidroid allowed random sorting. When is the new release that will support this feature going to be released?

Anxiously waiting! Thank you!

[Houssam Salem]

The "show new cards in random order" setting is an option group setting, so it will be observed if you sync or copy your entire collection, which I'm not sure you're doing. Note that the order isn't determined dynamically during review time. The new cards are re-shuffled every time you change this setting, so the order is actually stored in the database.

Reviews (not new cards) are randomized by default.

The next release of AnkiDroid will expose this setting, however, so keep an eye out for it. You can grab an alpha from the downloads page if you're feeling adventurous.