Just read this guide: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7Q7DPSk4iGFJd8DRk/an-opinionated-guide-to-using-anki-correctly

20 cards a day — Having too many cards and staggering review buildups is the main reason why no one ever sticks with Anki. Setting your review count to 20 daily (in deck settings) is the single most important thing you can do to stick with Anki long-term.

Is it possible to do this in Mochi? I've also struggled with reaching staggering number of reviews which kills motivation, and having some sort of limit (which also needs to include new cards somehow) seems useful.

I had an interesting idea while writing a reply to a similar suggestion.

What if "Due today" were broken up into "Due today" (only show cards due on the current day), and "Past due" (cards due on a previous day, but not reviewed yet)? This would allow users to review due cards as normal, and then afterwards whittle down their overdue cards in the "Past due" section at their own pace.

Now that the inbox section has been added, this wouldn't affect that, so it would essentially be an optional workflow without needing to enable any additional settings.

This comes up from time to time but I have not added such a feature to Mochi because I can't see how it works with the spaced repetition system. If you were to enable such a function, the longer you use it the more "backlogged" your cards become (the less likely you are to remember them).

Most spaced repetition systems aim for a 90% recall rate across the board. Any lower and it's not doing its job (remembering things), any higher and you're reviewing more frequently than you need to (inefficiency).

Say you have 30 cards due per day on average but limit your reviews to just 20 per day. Now you have 10 extra cards that are "past due" for the next day. Repeat that again and now you have 20 cards that are past due. Continue on long enough and your entire collection will become more and more past due, dropping well below the 90% recall threshold.

The only way, I think, to solve this issue is to simply limit the new cards you add per day, which you can already do in Mochi through Settings → Review settings.

TL;DR: There's no such thing as a free lunch. Things like review limits and vacation mode are simply incompatible with spaced repetition.

I think Mochi only has "Limit new cards" function. I've seen Matt talk about this on reddit (I think). He said he wanted to balance reviews between old overdue cards and fresh due cards. As of now, there is no way to adjust this.

For me it would be usefull in my own setup where i come back after a long time without reviewing and my new cards of my lessons are way too far in the deck.

I think that i would be great to add this feature even if you add a big warning before someone add it and could use it at his own risk.

To be honest i have move from anki to your app to get the api access and i feel overwhelm to get back to my review so i just don't use it and it's a shame as your app is verry good.

I understand that this feature doesn't work as the main purpose of the review principle.

But let's say i set a 30 card per day review as long as i add 10 new card per day it will be okay.

In my situation every day i see more than 300 cards But i only add 10 cards per week.

It's so overwhelming that i don't open it every day.

I knwow that if i got 30 cards per day i could handle them.