Flashcard planner

For one subject: how many new Anki cards to learn each day, counted back from your first exam paper, and the reviews and time to expect. New here? See how to use it.

1Your deck and dates

Start with a deck

The A Level Biology and Chemistry buttons fill in the card counts of the Cards by Clara decks and the AQA Paper 1 dates. The decks are free on AnkiWeb now, and updated versions are coming soon. Adjust "Where you are" if you're partway through the course.

Dates

First paper

Start planning from

2Where you are

Your cards Taught but not started

Still to be taught

Teaching ends

Already learned

Learning since

"Already learned" cards are ones you're reviewing now; "learning since" is roughly when you started on them.

3How to plan

Plan back from my exam Try a daily number

Buffer before the first paper Calculate it for me I'll set it: weeks Taper new cards over weeks

The buffer is when practice questions come first and flashcards are only reviews.

Advanced

Time and warnings

Seconds per card (writing the answer)

Warn above new/day

Warn above min/day

Calculated buffer

Deck Mature (%)

Final 4 weeks' cards Mature (%)

Shares of the whole deck, and of the cards from your final 4 weeks of new cards (just before the buffer), that must be Mature (21+ day interval) by the first paper. The recent-cards target is also the dashed line on the graphs.

Anki deck options

As in Anki's deck options. Defaults match a fresh install.

Learning steps

Relearning steps

Graduating interval (days)

Easy interval (days)

Starting ease (%)

Easy bonus (%)

Hard interval (%)

Interval modifier (%)

New interval (%)

Minimum interval (days)

Maximum interval (days)

How often you press each button (%)

Defaults are a typical Anki user. Each row must add up to 100. "Reviews: Again" is how often you forget a card when it's due.

Buffer length

Flashcard time per day

Minutes Cards

Your cards over time

Month by month

How this works

The planner follows Anki's own scheduling rules and the button presses of a typical Anki user (from the Anki button-usage dataset of about 10,000 users), and shows the average you can expect. It assumes you do every review on the day it's due and spend about 20 seconds per card. Read how to use it and why it works, including the sources.