Anki add-on: Limit New by Young

This add-on can aid in maintaining a stable and efficient daily workload. Anki already includes settings that can limit both new and reviewed cards by the number of cards that are due for the day, but this kind of limit is not always ideal. If instead you place a limit on the total number of young cards, then you will be fed new cards at roughly the same rate that you learn them. This removes the need to do manual tuning to reach an optimal balance point. Features Limit new card by young cards in deck Limit new card by estimated daily review load Limit new card by cards that will be due soon Different types of limits can be combined on a deck Defined limits rules can apply to an individual deck or groups of decks Options to automatically apply limits UI tools to review limits and how close each deck is to it's limits Setup To install go to ankiweb.net and follow the instructions in the Download section. After installing the add-on you will need to define a limit for one or more decks for the add-on to work. This is done by going to Tools > Add-ons selecting this add-on by name then clicking the Config button. Next edit the configuration json to add a limit. For example if you want to limit every deck to have at most 50 young cards you would edit the "limits" section to look like this: "limits": [ { "deckNames": ".*", "youngCardLimit": 50 } ], For more customization of limits read through and follow the instructions on the right side of the screen. Lastly to apply the limits you can either use the configuration to enable automatic updates, or manually trigger an update by using Tools > Limit New by Young > Recalculate today's new card limit for all decks from the menu. To undo the limits you can either set the New cards/day limit under Today only or switch back to Preset found in the deck's options. Support For any questions, problems, or other feedback feel free to create an issue on github or leave a comment here. Updates 2026-07-21 New features: Add option to rule to apply limit collectively across all matching decks 2025-08-22 Fixes: Update Qt6 reference ahead of 25.08 beta 2025-01-06 Fixes: Handle deck names containing special characters 2024-12-04 New features: Add option for automatic limit updates to recalculate the limit more than once per day Fixes: Avoid throwing error when partial or mangled configuration is used 2024-08-28 Fixes: Support float values in limit config 2024-08-25 Fixes: Honor "This deck" new card limits 2024-05-25 New features: Add option for minimum new cards when using limits 2024-05-20 Fixes: Fix minimum new cards when recalculating Fix missing min/max window buttons on report dialogs or some desktop environments 2024-05-09 Fixes: Fix regression error while loading for older versions of python (<3.11) 2024-05-08 Fixes: fix corner case bug in summarized utilization report for decks with 0% utilization change "over limit" report filter to include exactly 100% utilization decks improved documentation misc code cleanups 2024-04-18 Fixes: Fix regression error while loading for older versions of python (<3.10) 2024-04-17 New features: Support due soon limits Option to summarize utilization report Utilization report deck filters Fixes: Do not include buried new cards in load limit Include learning cards in young limit 2024-03-28 Fixes: Calculate the right limit after custom study 2024-03-14 New features: Support fractional load limits 2024-03-05 New features: Option to limit by daily load New menu items to get info about rule mappings and limit utilization Optional notifications when limits are updated Fixes: Misc optimizations More accurate limit calculations Do work in the background to prevent UI from locking up Don't reset the UI when user is reviewing to avoid visual glitching

GitHub repository: lune-stone/anki-addon-limit-new-by-young
Repository description: An add-on for Anki that can aid in maintaining a stable and efficient daily workload. 
Languages: Python, Makefile