Study flashcards by order of usefulness/frequency
On the flashcards tab, I would love a mode to study flashcards from all texts but ordered by frequency/importance. I have too many words saved to realistically study them all via flashcards, so I'd like to prioritize them by frequency/importance.
There's sort of a way to do this by going to the Word List tab, sorting by frequency/importance, and then selecting all, and then selecting Study Flashcards from there. But it only will do the top 25. It would be great to be able to use the spaced repetition algorithm from the main Flashcards tab to be able to work through the top 25 and then beyond.
Since the words are all already ranked by usefulness/frequency, I think this may not be too huge of an effort to implement?
Anyway, thanks for the site and all your work on it. I love it.
This is exactly how the flashcards work by default. It's meant to surface the words with the highest frequency first. That said, the spaced repetition algorithm will also ensure that words you've practiced will not reappear in the flashcards for a certain time after you've last practiced them, which is designed to be effective for learning many words over the long term (but may not be ideal if you are trying to cram-study the top X most frequent words in a short amount of time)
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Steve H commented
Ah! This is great default behavior. You explanation about the algorithm makes perfect sense and is the reason why I didn't realize this was the default behavior... becase I had already practiced many of the higher frequency words I was of course getting shown lower frequency ones.
Anyway, this is perfect. Thanks for the reply and for all your work on this awesome tool.