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Display order and review behavior

These set-specific settings determine what you see during SRS review and how eligible cards are selected. Open the set, tap its gear button, and choose the section you need.

Display Order

Card priority groups

Card Group → Card Order contains the New, Learn, Relearn, Review, and Suspended categories. Earlier priority groups are considered before later groups. Cards within the same group use a mixed order; the visual order of the category labels within a group is not a sequence of reviews.

The default places all categories in Priority 1.

To give established reviews an earlier priority:

  1. Open Display Order.
  2. Choose New Priority Group.
  3. Drag the categories into your preferred groups, with the categories you want first in Priority 1.
  4. Tap Save Change.

Removing a group does not disable its cards; categories remain represented in the remaining groups. Use availability controls or daily limits to exclude work.

Deck Order

New Card Order Type offers:

  • Sequential Order: select new-card candidates according to the saved linked-deck order. Reorder the deck list with its drag handles.
  • Random Order: mix new-card selection across the linked decks. Your saved sequential deck order remains available when you switch back.

This setting controls new-card selection, especially when the new-card quota is smaller than the number of available cards. It does not sort every learning and review card into deck-sized blocks.

Card Display & Struggle Control

ControlDefaultEffect
Show TagOnAllows user tags to appear on review cards.
Show SRS StateOnDisplays the learning-state badge.
Show Struggle StatusOnDisplays the Struggle badge when applicable.
Struggle Threshold (times)8Accumulated Review-state lapses needed to mark Struggle; range 1–9,999.
Recovery Threshold (times)5Consecutive successful Review-state answers needed to recover; range 1–9,999.

Tag display also depends on the session's Show Tag/Hide Tag control. Hiding a label does not remove the tag or change the card's scheduling state. See States and Struggle for the counting rules.

Review Behavior

ControlDefaultWhat changes
Maximum Logged Time60 secondsCaps the recorded duration of an answer; choices are 30, 60, 90, or 120 seconds.
Review Button Display4 ButtonsFour grades (Again, Hard, Good, Easy) or two grades (Again, Good).
Show Elapsed TimeOffShows the review timer.
Auto AdvanceOffAutomatically reveals and advances cards using the settings below.
Time before showing answer5 secondsHow long to wait before revealing the answer automatically.
Time before next card5 secondsHow long to wait before automatic grading/advancement after the answer is shown.
If no answer is chosen, mark as:AgainGrade recorded if the timer expires without a manual choice.

Maximum Logged Time is a recording cap, not a countdown that forces an answer. Auto Advance has its own timers.

When saving two-button mode, automatic no-answer grades are limited to Again or Good. A previous Hard choice becomes Again; Easy becomes Good. Check this setting when changing the answer-button layout.

After editing any section, tap Save Change. Use Reset to Default and then save if you want to restore that section's defaults.

Related: Review a set, Settings and presets, and Statistics.