Postpone cards add on and "Easy Days" are not friends

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Hola folks -
Not sure if this technically qualifies as a “bug” - but I used the postpone cards add on a couple of weeks ago (I postponed cards one day) on my AnKing Overhaul for Step 1 & 2 deck. I also have set Sundays to a “Reduced” card load.
My “Easy day” is now on Monday, instead of Sunday. Not sure which function isn’t playing nice; I think maybe the Easy Days component “kept going” when Postpone cards caused everything to stay back a day?

Anyway, any guidance as to how to restore everything and get my easy days back on actual Sunday and not Monday (and to prevent this from happening in the future) would be much appreciated.

P.S. FWIW, in case this matters: I DO have the FSRS helper add on; I see that it’s got options like “Postpone cards in all decks” and “Advance cards in all decks” and the “Less Anki on Easy Days” has dropdowns for “Apply easy days for specific dates” and “apply easy days now” but I don’t know if those functions are pertinent to this.

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Hi there! I’ll help you troubleshoot the issue with your “Easy Days” shifting from Sunday to Monday after using the Postpone Cards add-on. Let me search for some relevant information that might help with this situation.

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Hi there! It sounds like you’re experiencing an issue with your Easy Days feature shifting from Sunday to Monday after using the Postpone Cards add-on. Let me help you resolve this.

What’s happening

When you used the Postpone Cards add-on to delay your cards by one day, it seems to have affected how Anki tracks your weekly schedule. The “Easy Days” feature (which is part of the “Less Anki on Easy Days” functionality in FSRS helper) works by tracking specific days of the week, and the postponement appears to have shifted this tracking.

How to fix it

To get your Easy Days back on Sunday, you have a couple of options:

Option 1: Use the FSRS helper functions

You mentioned you have the FSRS helper add-on which has relevant functions:

  1. Open the FSRS helper add-on
  2. Look for the “Apply easy days for specific dates” option
  3. Select Sunday to re-establish it as your Easy Day

Option 2: Advance cards to realign the schedule

Since postponing moved everything forward a day, you can use the “Advance cards in all decks” function in FSRS helper to move everything back:

  1. Open FSRS helper
  2. Select “Advance cards in all decks”
  3. Set it to advance by 1 day (this will counteract the previous postponement)

Preventing this in the future

When using the Postpone Cards add-on, be aware that it can interfere with features that rely on specific weekday scheduling like Easy Days. If you need to postpone cards in the future:

  1. Make a note of your Easy Day settings before postponing
  2. After postponing, check if your Easy Day has shifted
  3. Use the FSRS helper’s “Apply easy days” function to realign if needed

Alternatively, you might consider using Anki’s built-in filtered decks for temporary adjustments rather than postponing all cards, as this might have fewer side effects on your schedule.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

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Hello,

I would be happy to help. :slight_smile:

I’m sorry to say that the short answer will be: once you start mixing-and-matching add-ons, most of which are written by third-party groups, there’s almost no telling what kind of conflicts you might run into.

Especially with multiple overlapping add-ons, that will very quickly get to a point where troubleshooting is probably beyond what we can help with, on the AnkiHub side.

For better or worse, if you’re having trouble with a specific add-on (aside from, obviously, the AnkiHub add-on), the tried and true method to troubleshoot will likely be to reach out to the add-on author and/or on the official Anki forums, I’m sorry to say.

This is especially true of the FSRS-related add-ons, as they are duly complex and the mechanics behind how they’re written are pretty specialized knowledge; in many/most cases you’ll want to reach out to one of the FSRS authors for specific guidance on the ins and outs of their specific add-on.

Please let me know if that answers your question, and if there’s anything else I can help with. :slight_smile: