Daily new-card and review limits in Encodr, explained
Encodr lets you cap new cards and reviews separately, per class - so a big deck never turns into an unmanageable daily list. Here's how the two limits actually work.
A deck with a thousand cards is only overwhelming if all thousand show up at once. Encodr's daily limits cap how many new cards and how many reviews you see per class each day - and the two caps are deliberately independent, not one shared number.
Two separate limits, not one
New cards per day caps how many cards you meet for the first time in a class today. Reviews per day caps how many already-graduated cards come back for review today. They're set separately in a class's Daily limits option (the course gear icon, on web and mobile), and leaving either blank means no cap on that one.
The reason they're independent: if one shared number covered both, "reviews per day" would really function as a total cap, and there'd be no way to say "let me review everything that's due, just slow down how fast I'm adding new material." Splitting them makes that distinction possible.
A card you're still learning is never capped
There's a third bucket neither limit touches: a card you just got wrong is "learning" until you get it right again, and a learning card always comes back regardless of either cap. The two limits only gate new cards (never seen before) and review cards (already graduated out of learning) - a card you're actively struggling with is never stranded behind a daily cap you've already hit.
What happens when you hit a cap
Hitting a class's limit opens a screen with three options: change the limit, turn it off, or study a different deck. There's deliberately no "just this once, ignore the limit" button - if the cap is wrong for today, raising the number is the override, not a special exception. A class with no limit set behaves exactly as it always did - re-serving reviews and new cards without any of this.
Why cap it at all
The whole point of what spaced repetition actually does is that a mature deck settles into a small daily list instead of growing into an unmanageable one - but "small" is relative to how many cards you're adding. A deck that lets you binge 200 new cards in one sitting is setting up next week's review load, not solving today's. Capping new cards is a way to pace that growth deliberately instead of discovering it three weeks later as a backlog. See studying a 1,000-card deck without burning out for the broader version of this problem, and the study load planner for sizing a reasonable daily/weekly target before you set your caps.
Encodr turns this into a habit: study anything in a feed, and it schedules the rest.
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