Activate cards based on grade or date created
Extend the current 'Activate cards' dialog such that you can activate e.g. only the unlearned cards, or cards added during the last week.
Could be useful for learning new cards before going through the scheduled cards, or for cramming recently added cards.
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Henrik Giæver commented
In my daily learning I miss the possibility to differentiate "Not memorised" as a) "Not yet tried to memorise" and b) "Need to learn better" (as "score 0 or 1 when I tried to memorise")
In my learning I always prioritise "b". Type "b" need my attention: Cram, make it easier or wait (e.g by assigning new tag, great functionality). How many type "a" I work through should be determined more by what daily burden I find ideal.
Supermemo 7 used term "Final drill" for type "b".
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Gnome commented
I like this idea to be able to filter out the cards. Very hard cards I think may require repetitions both in the morning and later that day for better learning (at least for me).
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If you have a large number of unlearned cards, 'show unlearned cards first' would essentially go on forever before you get to your scheduled cards. In that case, you would need to go into 'settings' again and uncheck that option. I like switching card sets better because it's more explicit, and can be done with a few keyboard shortcuts as well.
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Scott Youngman commented
Thanks for the explanation. So this would allow unlearned cards to appear first rather than last during a day's review -- in that case SRS is not violated.
As an alternative, how about adding a setting "Show unlearned cards first"?
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Cramming indeed violates the SRS principle :-)
As for activating only unlearned cards, I have personally felt that it would be helpful to look into your new vocabulary at many different times throughout the day. In the current implementation, I first need to go through all the scheduled cards, so that in practice, I only get to see my new cards in the evening, leading to less effective study.
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Scott Youngman commented
Doesn't this violate the underlying strategy of spaced repetition memorization?