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Falling behind (Backlog) means not being able to do Pleco reviews for some time, thereby considerably increasing the number of due cards of a session (as described in "Mapping my Understanding of SRS to Pleco flashcard settings"). The question is how to recover from this situation.
Gato said:Falling BehindIf you fall behind in your reviews, Anki will prioritize cards that have been waiting the longest. It does this by taking the 200 cards that have been waiting the longest, and showing them to you in a random order up until your daily review limit.
Anki uses a daily review limit, e.g. limits the daily number of cards. Mike usually does not like a daily limit, but also
mikelove said:it should be possible for somebody to create some flashcards, tell our system how many cards they feel like reviewing right now, and have that review happen in an intelligent / optimized way without having to think about any of the other settings
That probably means that after the user decided on the number of cards to review, the only problem is to find out what is an "intelligent / optimized way without having to think about any of the other settings". Actually I would not select from the cards that have been waiting the longest as Anki does: If you have 2 cards, one with score 10,000, one with score 100, and both have been waiting for 20 days, the probability to remember the card with the score of 10,000 is rather high, but the card with a score of 100 will more likely be forgotten. Therefore - as mentioned several times before - I would let Pleco select as many cards with the lowest scores that are needed to reach the decided number of cards. From my point of view that is probably all that is to do; of course if the number of cards selected by the user is too small, the user will never recover from falling behind. But Pleco could tell him.