Anki, order vocabulary is presented

[Silent]

Is there an easy way to control the order in which Anki presents vocabulary for study?

Example 1: I study a list and daily new vocabulary is presented to study. In some source I come across a word a few times and consequently I essentially know it but I need to review it a few times to get it in long term memory. Is there an easy way to give such a word precedence over other vocabulary? Now I fix this through jugling a little with labels and study settings, but I feel there should be an easier way.

Example 2: I want to read a book. I went through the vocabulary list and decided on which vocabulary I want to learn. Now I want to learn the vocabulary in order of relevance. E.g. in the order they occur for the first time in the book. How do I control in which order they are presented by Anki? Now I add them batchwise, but this is not very handy as I've to add the vocabulary when I want to study it even if I'm busy. I prefer to add it when I've a bit of spare time instead. Also it's more efficient to add 50 or 100 words at once instead of 10 times 5 or 10.

[Guest realmayo]

Is there an easy way to give such a word precedence over other vocabulary?

What do you mean? You want to see it before the other words? Or more often than the other words?

[Silent]

I want it shown first/immediately. I don't want to wait till Anki decides to show it as new vocabulary that may take a long time. If I've to wait weeks or months before the word is presented by Anki I've forgotten it and need to relearn the word from 'scratch'. If it's presented immediately and goes through the standard spaced repetition cycle I may have to review it only a couple of times to get it in long term memory.

[Guest realmayo]

Simplest thing would be to tag the words you want prioritised, and tell Anki to only show you new cards that have that tag.

Or, tag them with High Priority.

As for example 2: isn't there an option to ask Anki to show you cards in the order you've added them? (I'm away from my computer with Anki on it).

[Silent]

The tagging is what I do now, but it's a bit inconvenient. First tag them and adjust the study settings, then after first time study reverse the settings in order to get everything I want to study and to top up the number of wordsI to the daily quota. The High priority option might however be of interest. Had a look at it when I started with Anki, decided then it wasn't worth it. I'm taking a second look at it. Thanks!

Yes, there's an option to show cards in the order added, but it's not the solution. I add cards to an existing deck. Consequently the other cards are created earlier. Also, I don't want to add vocabulary that already exists in the deck. It's extra work and the basedeck I use has soundclips and my hand added cards don't. I'm pretty much stuck with cards that are added in random order or extra work. Adding batchwise and fiddling with labels makes that it more or less works, but I feel there should be an easier way. (I may be wrong).

[WestTexas]

why don't you have Anki introduce new cards in reverse order added, ie, most recently added cards get shown first. Then you should be able to get all the words you've learned from your reading, and when you are finished with those you will get the base deck that has the sound files and such.

[Guest realmayo]

Oops, yes that's what I meant to say, reverse order ....! That should work shouldn't it? And if you add some cards that you're not keen to start studying immediately, just tag them low priority.

[Silent]

The priority settings work for example one.

Example 2 is a bit more complicated. I mean I've list of vocabulary I want to study. Partially these are already in the HSK deck I have. The rest is added then I want them to be shown in (roughly) a certain order. I'm stuck with a list of words that is in no way entered in the (reverse) order that I want to study them. So, say my vocabulary list is 200 words half of them belong to HSK and are already in the deck, the other half is added manually. Then I want to study them in order of first occurance in the book.

As said, adding them batchwise and/or fiddling with labels works to some extent, but is not that convenient. The priorities that realmayo came up with can help a little too. Better would be if priorities could be set at a more granular level e.g. on a scale from 1 to 10. I guess I just have to live with it.

Thanks for the input!