custom study and card order

[dryw...@gmail.com]

I have a deck of 500 vocabulary cards.  I study in blocks of 50 words, so I used to have 10 decks of 50 cards each.  Then I discovered tags and searching for them as a custom study.  Great, however, I've read that Anki does NOT reorder cards based on the results of a custom study session.  That deprives me of the value of its spaced repetition system, unless you can tell me for sure that when showing me new cards, Anki will take only from 001-050 before it shows me a card from 051-100.

[Flavio Lerda]

Hello,

Not sure I understand the question correctly, but I will assume that by "Anki does NOT reorder cards based on the results of a custom study session" you mean that cards are not rescheduled according to the answer you provided (i.e., whether you remembered the card correctly or not).

If that's the case, it is possible to use filtered decks to not update the scheduling information (e.g., for cramming as many cards as possible before an exam). But it is also possible to create a filtered deck that updates the scheduling information (e.g., for focusing on a subset of cards).

See the manual for details:

  http://ankisrs.net/docs/manual.html#filtered

and look at the "reschedule cards based on my answers" option.

Later in your message you talk about "new" cards. In Anki's parlance new cards are cards that have not been learned before. The order of new cards is controlled by a setting and it can be configured as the order in which they have been created. If your cards were created in order 001..100 and you choose to see new cards in creation order, they this will work as expected (no new cards in the 051-100 range will be shown before all cards in the 001-050 has been seen at least once).

Finally, you can use two different filtered decks for new and old cards, so that old cards will be shown from any deck in the order in which SRS will show them, while new cards will be picked from a specific subdeck, so that you always know from which deck new cards are coming from.

Hopefully this is somewhat useful.

Feel free to ask further questions if anything is unclear.

Also note that since this is not an AnkiDroid specific question, you might be able to find additional help on http://anki.tenderapp.com.

Flavio

On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 at 17:35 <dryw...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a deck of 500 vocabulary cards.  I study in blocks of 50 words, so I used to have 10 decks of 50 cards each.  Then I discovered tags and searching for them as a custom study.  Great, however, I've read that Anki does NOT reorder cards based on the results of a custom study session.  That deprives me of the value of its spaced repetition system, unless you can tell me for sure that when showing me new cards, Anki will take only from 001-050 before it shows me a card from 051-100.

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[dryw...@gmail.com]

I'm going to say back to you what I think you are saying so you can correct any error.

Open big deck (00-200), select custom study, limit to certain tags (001-200, 201-251).  Go to deck options and set cards selected by to oldest seen first. Also select reschedule from deck options to turn on SRS.   Study.  Assuming I imported 001-200 first, no cards from 201-250 will appear until all 001-251 have been seen at least once.

This I do not know what to do:

Finally, you can use two different filtered decks for new and old cards, so that old cards will be shown from any deck in the order in which SRS will show them, while new cards will be picked from a specific subdeck, so that you always know from which deck new cards are coming from.

I know how to create a deck with no new cards, but not how to pull due learning/review cards from any deck.  Neither can I select the deck from which all new cards will come. 

Thank you.