Wise Arabic suggests a daily pace: how many new words to save today. Every saved word becomes review cards, and those cards return on later days. The pace keeps that future load close to the review load you can actually sustain.
The pace is a recommendation, not a limit. You can save more, but the extra work always arrives later as reviews.
Where the pace comes from
The pace starts from your preferred daily review load in Settings: the number of reviews you are happy to do on a normal day.
Each day, Wise Arabic looks at what is already due and what your recent saves will add over the coming days, then suggests the largest number of new words that keeps future reviews near your preferred load.
- If today's reviews are already heavy, the pace is zero and the guidance is to only review.
- If you have saved many words but not started reviewing them, the guidance is to start those saved words before saving more.
- Otherwise you get an exact number to save today.
Words on the dashboard, cards in Learn
The dashboard speaks in words. Learn speaks in cards.
A saved word usually produces two or three review cards, but only one of them is introduced on the first day; the others follow on later days. So the "new" counts in Learn are card counts: leftover cards from words you started earlier, plus new words up to today's pace.
If the dashboard says five words and Learn says seven new cards, nothing is wrong. Both numbers describe the same pace from different angles.
Review-only days
Some days the right amount of new material is none. When due reviews are well above your preferred load, Learn serves no new cards and the dashboard says to only review today.
Do not fight this. Clearing the backlog is the fastest way back to a normal pace, and the pause protects the words you have already committed to.
The review load forecast
Below the guidance, the dashboard shows how different word paces would play out: what your daily reviews look like over the coming weeks if you save nothing, a few words a day, or many.
Use the forecast when you are tempted to binge-save. It shows the cost before you pay it.
Going past the pace
When a review session reaches today's pace, Learn stops at a checkpoint instead of quietly continuing. If more new cards are queued, you can choose to study a further small batch.
Going past the pace occasionally is fine, say before travel or when a chapter deadline is close. Doing it every day just moves your real pace up without adjusting the plan behind it. If you always want more, raise your preferred daily review load instead.
Changing the pace
Set your preferred daily review load in Settings, under Scheduling. A higher number allows a faster word pace but commits you to more reviews every day. If reviews start to feel heavy, lower it; the word pace will follow.
Where to go next
- How reviews work: what happens to a card after you rate it.
- Your dashboard: where the pace and next action appear.
- Settings reference: the settings behind the pace.