I’m still using the app after all these years. Thanks for the great app. Recently a YouTuber I like made a video showing how she uses flash cards to study languages (Oriental Pearl if you watch YouTube). She didn’t go into a lot of detail on the video but answered my follow questions. She uses paper flash cards. She keeps an active deck of 50 cards on a key ring with her throughout the day. If she knows the card after one day then she removes it from the active deck and sets it aside to double check again in 6 months if she still knows it. As someone who wrote an SRS study deck I’m sure you’re aware that knowing a card after one day is little indication you will still know it 3 days let alone 20 days etc. But if you watch her videos I think you’ll agree she gets good results and I want to try it. Although I understand the attraction paper has to many people I was thinking I could use Flash Cards Deluxe to do the same thing. The idea for me is to do a production card instead of a recognition card so English and a picture on side one and then the target language on side two with audio. Pretty nice as compared to a paper card right? Instead of using the SRS mode or Leitner mode I’ll just keep it in ordered or random mode and then use the options to exclude known cards. It’s really nice how flexible FCD is that I can do this to emulate using real paper cards. Anki is all about SRS for example and I can’t see how you could pull this off with Anki.
The one thing that’s arising is that even after I exclude the known cards they’re still there. Even when I quit to the main screen and come back. If it were Leitner or SRS mode the app would refresh the deck and exclude them if I quit to the main screen and re-entered the deck but not for random or ordered mode.