Cards in learning (red) is accumulating over days about +200/day

[Hörmetjan Yiltiz]

I hope this is about my configuration/preferenses rather than an Device/client issue, thus could be categorized as Effective Learning. Or it could even be a bug, and in that case, I am more than willing to file a bug report. I have read the manual for Anki and AnkiDroid several times, and looked up this forum and the google forum for AnkiDroid, but could not find an answer.

How I use

I am using AnkiDroid and Anki for Windows (under Windows 8 64 bit) at the same time, syncing data using Anki's standard sync service, and mainly using AnkiDroid to learn and review, and Anki for Windows to add decks. I am using a deck in which there are about 5000 notes to cram some English vocabulary. I am studyign everyday several times (more than three times), mostly about 09:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00, each time study until AnkiDroid tells me that there are nore more cards to learn at that moment, though I still have huge red numbers (more than several hundreds) indicating Learning Due cards are there.

My current configurations

Based on the default configuration, here is my modified configuration:

1. learning step: 1 10 60 300 learn in small steps, learn often
   
2. New day starting at: 3 past midnight * I wake up early sometimes*
   
3. Review cards limit: 9999 *review as much, or all, as possible
   
4. New cards per day: 100
   
5. Leech count: 10

What I see

In my AnkiDroid, I see the three indicator numbers for New cards, Learning and Review as: 100(blue), 813 (red), 24(green)
In my Anki for Windows, I see two indicator for the same deck for Due and New: 837(green), 100(blue)

The number above 800 is increasing daily now about 200 words per day so that it is well above what I could possibly handle at the moment. After waiting several minutes, Anki could show me one card, but then I learn it up (select Good several times), then Anki will have to wait another several minutes before it could show me any more cards, or about half a day to show me another bunch of cards.

What I expect to see

Each time I learn, or when it is near midnight (the end of the day), the Cards Due (numbers in red in AnkiDoird) is decresed to zero, which could happen only when AkiDroid/Anki keeps on showing cards until that number is decreased sufficiently.

What else I tried

After AnkiDroid tells me that there are no more cards to learn at that time, I tried each of the following:

1. using the review ahead feature, setting the review ahead limit to 1 day so that I could review next days cards;
   
2. reducing the Learning steps from original 1 10 60 300 to 1 10;
   
3. setting the day point from 3 past midnight to 0 past midnight;

None of the above changed the bahavoir: Anki keeps telling me that there are no more cards to learn though there are more than hundreds of cards in due.

[Xiao Sun]

Charles Darwin! Four steps? Must have lots of free time on your hands, a really bad memory, inefficiently designed cards or all three. 

Yes, Anki only shows two numbers in deck list, good luck getting Anki team to fix that, they don't seem to think it's is a bug. As long as they are concerned, AD has an extra number.

[Hörmetjan Yiltiz]

I would really appreciated if you posted your kind reply after reading through my thouroughly crafted post. Anki schedules a card to next day after the step is reached to its limit, which means most of the time, you only get to learn a card once a day, which is far from efficiency. I like reviewing a card several times a day. If, by some definition, that could be considered bad memory, then I am.

Also, what I am saying is not about the number of integers that is indicated at the screen: I was talking about how one of that number increased. I is consistent across decises, so has nothign to do with `getting Anki team to fix that`.

I would really appreciate if you really understand what I was saying, and in that case, point me out why that behavior is normal (if so, what should I do to reduce the number back to 0, and if not, I am simply gonna report a bug).

[Xiao Sun]

TLDR.

Make sure "learn ahead time" is set to 0. 

[Houssam Salem]

It's hard for me to understand where the problem is (if there is one) since you've modified the steps in a way that's kind of hard to think about. I think it's working as intended because learning cards that fall into the next day (300 minutes/5 hours) shouldn't be shown to you since Anki only shows you cards due on the current day (per-day scheduling). You are not going to get it down to 0 until the day passes. If you don't want the number to accumulate indefinitely, you need to reduce the number of new cards introduced so you can catch up.

If you are convinced there is a problem, you need to create a sample deck that exhibits the problem and provide exact steps for how to reproduce it, and explain what is different from the desktop client as you perform those steps. If both clients behave the same way, then it is not an AnkiDroid bug (and you will need to direct your concerns to the Anki forum instead of this one).

[ospalh]

Or maybe you want to try fewer new cards/day. That should reduce the number of reviews/day after a while.

[Hörmetjan Yiltiz]

Now that you pointed out, I understand that about 100 cards are getting into the next day after getting into the 300min step. But, after about 10 days now, it should not be a case where this number increces, but rather stays since about 100 new cards are getting scheduled into the next day every day evening.