📅 Exam Scheduler v1

✨ Exam Scheduler 3.3 — A New Look. A Clearer Plan.

Updated: 14 October 2026

Thank you for your feedback! Exam Scheduler has been rebuilt with a modern interface, accurate card counting, multiple study plans, and safer controls.

Turn your exam date into a manageable daily target for new Anki cards, while Anki continues to schedule your reviews.

🆕 What’s new?

🎨 A redesigned interface

• Clean layout that adapts to different window sizes.
• Light, dark, and automatic themes.
• Adjustable text size.
• A welcome screen with language selection.
• Clickable explanations with practical examples.
• A compact, scrollable changes list.
• A success message and a little confetti after applying your plan.

🌍 Seven languages English, German, French, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Ukrainian. Arabic includes right-to-left layout. Change your language anytime.

📚 Multiple independent plans Create separate plans for different decks, each with its own exam date, daily maximum, and study calendar.

Switch between plans from Your plans. Updating or stopping one plan leaves the others unchanged.

If plans overlap—for example, a parent deck and one of its subdecks—the add-on identifies the conflicting decks. You can still preview the calculation, but conflicting plans cannot be applied simultaneously.

🔢 Accurate card counting Planning now uses actual remaining new cards, without converting them into “Knowledge Units.”

For example: 5,200 remaining new cards ÷ 63 study days = 83 new cards per day, provided your daily maximum allows it.

Suspended cards are excluded. Temporarily buried new cards are included.

📅 Flexible scheduling

• Choose your study weekdays.
• Add specific days off.
• Reserve time for reviews before your exam.
• Set a maximum number of new cards per day.
• Enable automatic recalculation as your remaining workload changes.
• See a warning when your available time and daily maximum are insufficient.

🛡️ Safer changes and restoration

• Preview the proposed limits before applying them.
• Shared option presets remain unchanged.
• Each plan retains its original limits for restoration.
• Manual changes that conflict with the plan are detected.
• A recovery journal helps handle interrupted operations.
• Discard unsaved form edits without changing your cards or limits.

🚀 How to use it

1. Open Tools → Exam Scheduler.
2. Select ＋ New plan, then choose a deck and exam date.
3. Set your buffer days and daily maximum.
4. Optionally choose study weekdays and days off.
5. Click Preview, review the proposed changes, then Apply plan.

Study from the selected parent deck to use its overall daily limit. Its subdecks receive limits that allow the parent’s planned workload to pass through.

💡 What numbers should I enter?

Buffer days

These are days reserved before the exam for reviews rather than introducing new cards.

For example, with an exam on 20 June and 7 buffer days, the plan aims to finish new cards by 12 June, leaving 13–19 June for reviews.

Enter 7 for one week, 14 for two weeks, or 0 for no reserved period. More buffer days mean fewer days for learning new cards—and potentially a higher daily target.

In automatic mode, the add-on sets the new-card limit to zero during this period.

Daily maximum

This is your ceiling for new cards, not reviews.

For example, enter 30 if you can realistically learn up to 30 new cards a day alongside your reviews. If that is insufficient to meet your deadline, the add-on warns you instead of silently exceeding your maximum.

Study days and days off

Choose the weekdays when you want to learn new cards, and add individual dates for holidays or other commitments.

Scheduled days off require automatic recalculation. Anki may still assign reviews on those days.

Automatic recalculation

Once a plan is applied, the add-on adjusts its new-card target using the remaining cards and available study days.

It runs while Anki Desktop is open, outside review sessions and while the planner window is closed. Open Anki Desktop each study day so the plan can stay up to date.

🧠 Works alongside FSRS

Exam Scheduler changes new-card limits only. It does not alter FSRS parameters, desired retention, review intervals, card contents, or review history.

FSRS continues to manage your reviews. The plan estimates when you can complete the first pass through your new cards; it does not guarantee memorization by the exam date.

Anki’s review limits and other scheduling settings may also affect how many new cards are actually available.

↩️ Need to stop a plan?

Select it under Your plans, then choose Stop & restore limits.

This restores the limits saved before that plan started, without deleting cards or resetting learning progress. Other independent plans remain active.

If conflicting manual changes are detected, restoration is blocked rather than overwriting them.

🖥️ Compatibility

Requires Anki Desktop 25.9.2 or later. Tested on Anki 25.9.2 under macOS; other platforms and versions have not been separately verified.

The add-on does not run inside AnkiMobile, AnkiDroid, or AnkiWeb. When studying across devices, let the desktop add-on update your plan and sync before studying elsewhere.

💚 Happy studying!

Small, consistent steps bring you closer to your goal.

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