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0 pointskazinator5y ago0 comments

just let you set up a daily goal of number of cards reviewed. When you do a lesson, it picks up the overdue cards first, but if there aren't any, it pulls in new cards instead.

Those are features of AnkiDroid, and probably the desktop Anki also.

There is a daily review limit, and you can configure to see review cards before new cards. Anki does not tell you how much is overdue beyond the review limit.

If you're set on writing your own app, you will tend to overlook the configuration details of the original, though.

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johnny_b5y ago

Default settings matter, when you start out it's hard to know what's better - new cards first, or review cards first. I wish I spent some time on configuring that when I first started with Anki.

allenu5y ago

I wrote my own app as a fun project and as a way to look at how I could make a flashcard a better user experience overall. The daily overdue experience was just one thing that I didn't like.

I think Anki is powerful and has a lot of configuration settings and add-ons to support new scenarios, but I think for a lot of average non-technical users, they may be overwhelmed by that and not interested in learning it. My goal was to write an app for those people (and for me).

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