Learning cards not showing up after 20 minutes

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Learning steps are: 15m 1d 3d

Relearning Steps: 20m 1d

After I hit again on a learning card, I am not getting it back in 20 minutes. I can tell cards are being added to the learning category because the number is increasing, but I am no longer seeing the cards I hit again on until I finish the entire learning deck

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Hi Carly,

This sounds like you’re experiencing an issue with the “Learn ahead limit” setting in Anki. By default, Anki will show learning cards up to 20 minutes ahead of their scheduled time if there’s nothing else to study.

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Hi Carly,

The issue you’re experiencing is related to Anki’s “Learn Ahead Limit” setting. By default, Anki only shows learning cards that are due within the next 20 minutes. Since your relearning step is exactly 20 minutes, cards might not be showing up until you’ve gone through all other cards.

To fix this issue, you need to adjust your Learn Ahead Limit:

  1. Go to Anki’s main screen
  2. Click on Tools in the top menu
  3. Select Preferences
  4. Go to the Scheduling tab
  5. Find the Learn ahead limit setting
  6. Increase this value (e.g., to 30 or 40 minutes) to see your cards earlier

You can find a detailed tutorial on adjusting this setting here: Adjusting the Learn Ahead Limit

This will ensure that cards you mark “Again” will reappear within your study session after the 20-minute delay has passed, even if you still have other cards to review.

Let me know if this solves your issue!

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This didn’t change the issue

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I’ll help you troubleshoot this further, Carly. Let me search for more information about learning cards not showing up.

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Hi Carly,

I’m sorry to hear that adjusting the Learn Ahead Limit didn’t resolve your issue. Let me suggest a few other potential solutions:

What might be happening:

  1. Review limits: If you’ve set a maximum review limit for the day and have reached it, Anki may not show any more learning cards even if they’re due.

  2. Deck order: If you’re studying multiple decks, Anki might be prioritizing other cards first.

  3. Card scheduling: When you press “Again” on a learning card, it should return to the first step of your learning steps (which is 15m for new cards and 20m for relearning).

Try these solutions:

  1. Check your daily limits:

    • Go to your deck options
    • Under “Daily Limits” make sure your “Maximum Reviews/Day” setting isn’t too low
    • Also check if “New Cards Ignore Review Limit” is enabled

  2. Create a filtered deck:

    • This can help you focus specifically on those learning cards
    • Tools → Create Filtered Deck
    • Use a search like is:learning to gather all your learning cards

  3. Verify your steps:

    • Double-check your learning steps in deck options
    • Make sure the steps are properly configured as “15m 1d 3d” for learning and “20m 1d” for relearning

  4. Try setting Learn Ahead Limit to 0:

    • This will force Anki to wait the full delay time
    • This might help to “reset” the scheduling behavior

If these suggestions don’t work, you might need to check if there are any other add-ons causing conflicts with the normal scheduling behavior of Anki.

Let me know which of these solutions you try and if any of them help!

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Hello,

Try using these settings to make learning cards a priority. Be sure to click the arrow to the right of the save button and select “Save to All Subdecks”:

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If that doesn’t work, here’s what might be happening:
If you hit “Again” and that’s the only card to be reviewed, you will see it in 15 minutes. However, if you have many cards that you’ve marked as “Again,” they are displayed in the chronological order that you failed them. This means that depending on your review speed, you may see the card again after more than 15 minutes have passed.

Let me know if that helps! :blush:

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That hasn’t changed it either

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Were your settings different from the ones in my screenshot? If you could please provide more information, screenshots are ideal.

The issue depends on what you mean by a “learning deck.” Cards that you press “Again” on will be prioritized to return to you as soon as their interval has passed if the setting I showed you is selected. So, in a deck, they have priority over new (blue) and review (green) cards. However, if by “learning deck,” you mean a deck that only contains red cards (cards in the learning phase), they are ordered chronologically, and one red card cannot have priority over another.

For example, if I have 100 red cards and start reviewing them, it will take much more than 15 minutes (which is their “Again” interval) to do the entire deck. So, if I am on the 50th card, have already hit “Again” on the first 10 cards, and half an hour has passed since I started studying, those first 10 cards will only appear after I review the other half of the deck. Unfortunately, this is the way Anki works. You can understand this better here: Deck Options - Anki Manual

Lastly, please make sure you are changing the settings for the specific deck where you’re experiencing the issue. If you change the settings for a preset that is not applied to that deck, it will not work. Please send us a screenshot of your deck settings so we can see if this is happening.

It can be quite confusing, so please let me know if this helps with your problem! :blush: