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Practice — not recorded
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Practice — nothing here is recorded
Taking a card out of a deck is not deleting it. It stays in this profile, stays in every other deck holding it, and keeps its schedule and every review it has had. Put it back whenever you like.
A card in two decks is one card: one schedule, one history, and an edit in either deck is the same edit. Nothing is copied.
Deleting is the other act: the card goes from this profile and from every deck holding it, taking its schedule, its mediator-fade and its logged reviews with it. That one cannot be undone.
A goal decides which cards you meet next. The day’s new cards are drawn from its tags first; when it runs out of unseen cards the rest of the profile fills the day out, so a goal narrows the order and never the supply.
Leading with a direction is the same kind of narrowing, one level in. Both directions still arrive: once the day’s allowance has taken what it can from the leading direction, the other direction of those same cards is next in line — ahead of everything the goal is not aimed at — and what waits today is first tomorrow. A goal can put a direction off; it cannot switch one off.
Which directions you study at all is yours, above the card: Both, Forward or Reverse. A goal orders the directions you have chosen and never adds one — leading with production while you review forward only changes nothing, and the line above says so when that is where you are.
Your reviews are untouched. Everything due is still due, interleaved across the whole profile, whatever the goal says — narrowing what you meet costs you nothing, and narrowing what you review would cost you your schedule.
This is not the tag filter under Practice. A goal shapes what you meet, for credit and for keeps; the filter shapes what a practice run goes over, and records nothing. They can be set to different tags, and usually should be.
A deck made this way holds the cards carrying these tags right now, by reference: the same cards, one schedule each, and an edit in either place is the same edit. It is a selection, not a copy and not a saved search — a card tagged afterwards does not appear in it, and one that loses the tag does not leave it. Run the filter again whenever you want a fresh one.
These tags shape practice — Today’s cards and This deck — and nothing else. Your reviews are never narrowed: a due card is due whatever it is tagged with, and the schedule stays interleaved across the whole profile, which is the form that keeps everything alive.
A card is practised when it carries any one of the tags you pick — a goal is a union, not an intersection. Cards with no tags at all are outside every filter. Narrowing like this is blocked practice, useful before a trip; it costs nothing here because a practice run records nothing.
A goal file is a recipe, not a backup: its name, the tags it is aimed at and the direction it meets first, and nothing else. No cards, no schedules, no history — it restores nothing, and importing one aims this profile at the tags the recipe names, over whatever cards you already have.
An update once changed how this app stores things and could not bring the old arrangement across. Before it did, a copy of what was stored was kept. This is that copy. It is not a file this app can import — it is the raw shape of what was there, kept so that nothing is gone for good and somebody who knows the format can get it back.