I usually try to clear all my reviews for the day. This often means doing reviews late at night. I know it may come off as a little OCD, but it bothers me if there are reviews pending when I go to sleep.
I would like a feature where if a review would be scheduled for a certain range of time (for example between 10pm and 8am), it is instead pushed to the next available time.
That would be nice, I can 100% empathize and feel the desire for this even if it is largely an obsessive trait- but something that accessibility for is appreciated.
I would say as an extention of this idea, having a way to put a minimum threshold on reviews until a specific quantity opens would be appreciated. I work at my desk a lot of the day so when I see pedantic little ā2-5ā reviews added to my lineup it is just enough to not be able to ignore and ends up being kind of distracting.
Great suggestion and I think it is so unintrusive and easy to make optional Iād love to see it officially implemented.
I already do this as follows:
Is it a feature, no. Is it as easy as a feature would beā¦eh, maybe not or maybe the same effort. BUT IT WORKS! 
Yes! There are those that will say itāll UPSET the SRS schedule and ruin the just in time theory before forgetting something. But I spent enough time dealing with the bunch of reviews that accumulated while I slept to NOT worry about thatā¦it makes me happy and THAT is what counts.
If they get pushed back to the morning, isnāt that exactly the same as if you just ignored all reviews after 10pm, no? Maybe you should use a script to just make the upcoming reviews invisble insteadā¦
This could be done with a script, right, by displaying a fake number of reviews equal to the number you had before your cutoff time?
It is the same as ignoring, but some of us cannot ignore. So a feature would be very nice.
Do scripts work with the PWA on Android?
Install a parental control solution, set it to disallow access to the specific applications or the entire device after a specific time and have the control solution password known only to a friend or family member. I have known a couple of people that have done this.
I want to do all my reviews in one sitting not lots of little reviews through the day. Not only that since I am at work they pile up slowly and them BAM the 5pm pile of 60+ with another hump at at 12PM right before sleep.
That sounds like a great idea, and one I hadnāt thought of. Being able to set a āfloodgateā hour or something where all the reviews in a 24 hour cycle (or however you adjust settings) open at once so you have the daily workload available at one specific time could be really nice for maintaining schedule and for obsessive minds like me and some others in this thread.
EX: Set 3pm as the floodgate hour. At 3pm every item from 3pm yesterday until now is added into my review section to be worked on. No more items will be added until the cycle continues tomorrow at 3pm.
Room for customization, too.
Beyond setting the floodgate hour to fit your needs, maybe you could have multiple floodgate hours to divide into smaller chunks to work on. EX: one at 9am and one at 9pm, each with 50 reviews if youāve amassed 100 total in that time.
Maybe you could set a number limit so every review floodgate could only have, for example, 75 reviews and any extras just get rolled into the next cycle if the bombardment is a little too overwhelming.
etc.
I think itās a pretty smart accessibility feature and nice option to give the user. Having more control over the routine could go a long way for sticking with it- which only means more and higher quality learning.
I donāt think thatās a good idea. It basically renders the first few apprentice levels kind of useless. The reason the first few stages are under 24 hours is so that you have more exposure in this initial learning phase. If this becomes a default option they kind of would have to look at srs spacings as well, otherwise the first few stages work out really weirdly.
That, and: if you persistently stick to just doing your reviews at 3pm, your reviews WILL accumulate at 3pm anyway, even without doing any implementation changes.
I see the potential flaws, and key to any requests like this I definitely would never imply that I want the idea implemented as anything but completely optional. By full admission I doubt that 90% of the users would even bother with it, too. That being said, I believe the criticism derived from it kind of subsides itself via the context of the request.
The concept of a feature like this is designed for people who have a specific schedule to work around and wanting to tailor it to their needs. If a person only has one uninterrupted time a day they can sit down and study, then the busy nature of life and scheduling in-itself renders the spaced repetition of something like the apprentice levels pretty obsolete already, right? When batches of reviews are peppered in throughout the day, obviously the ideal approach would be to tackle in short bursts in a way accommodative of the WK schedule- but I think itās seldom the case that someone can be that flexible.
A tool like floodgating is just a way to accomodate to the users in scenarios like this, or who generally just want more control of when/how their reviews are being presented. If you can only work at one point a day, then there isnāt really a mechanical difference if you let the review sit on your to-do list for 23 hours until you can work again or just having it delivered to you in your daily set batch.
The benefit is, as Iāve said, just more agency over how you can study. There is a pressure/building anxiety to having a consistent drip-feeding of content added to a pile, and I find there to be merit in a tool to control that flow. āI can only do X a day at Y time, so X will be presented to me at my Y- nothing more or lessā. Itās nice being able to go to bed without feeling as if I could or should endlessly be doing more. As superfluous as it may be, accessibility and control always have their place and use, in my opinion.
Giving more control to the user would, I believe, only encourage consistency and make a monumental task like WK more approachable and friendly. It certainly isnāt a tool to speed up the process by any means (probably doing the opposite ultimately), but I think removing any potential alienation or dread that the constantly ticking clock can bring is more important. What I am ultimately advocating for is just a little toggle switch that allows you to tailor the experience to yourself how youād like a bit more- and that switch should not be on by default, easy to bypass if you feel up to it, and (most importantly) completely optional. I donāt think it would be too intrusive or imbalancing of the WK structure and only provide empowerment and motivation.
I, personally, try to do reviews as soon as they appear. I just want to not see any more after a certain hour.
I think you can accomplish floodgating using quiet hours. Simply set the quiet hours to be e 23 hours from 4pm to 3pm. On the other hand, I donāt think you can accomplish quiet hours using floodgating. But, these are still very closely related ideas.
In either case, I really like the original idea you mentioned @drackyslime: this should be a visibility control. In other words, if a user has time, they should be able to easily disable this and do a few reviews. The feature would affect visibility, not scheduling. Does that help any @sumsum?
Good way of putting it, thank you!
