Dear Coders of this wonderful forum, I have a request to make, concerning a plug-in for Anki. What I have in mind is an auto-timer of sorts that does the following.

If during a set amount of time of 30 seconds no key is pressed, the card will be rated hard, and the answer is shown for up to 50 seconds, until the next card will be shown. If the spacebar is pressed during these 30 seconds, the card should automatically be rated as easy. Since it would be good to have this function for all four difficulties, since you never know if you have to fail a card, the following would be great.

A timer of 60 seconds. If the spacebar is pressed within or under 10 to 20 seconds, it is a very easy card, between 20 to 40 seconds it is an easy card, a hard card if the key is not pressed within 40 to 50 seconds, and failed in case you don't press a button at all. In any case, the answer should be shown after pressing the key, and the next card within a certain amount of time after having seen the correct answer.

Customizable timer settings would also be great. Or an auto-timer that can read out the average time for certain cards, and the ratings given to the cards. Maybe some function that determines the difficulty automatically as well. But I guess this would be too complex.

It should be only one key or button, if someone were to implement a function to use a gamepad, for the following reason. I thought that doing physical training while doing my reviews would be a great idea. And a timer like this would surely help, because I don't have to decide which button to press, 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / spacebar.

It would be awesome if someone here would be willing to write a plug-in that does exactly this!

I'm on the fence about this, but I wouldn't mind the option, via something like the above that's customizable, to experiment with time limits/automated behaviour per card as well as delayed corrective feedback (e.g. 3 second delay and 10-15 second durations, derived from research on spaced retrieval), as mentioned here.

I'm on the fence because there's so many other previously mentioned factors to consider to create delays and in terms of card types/encoding methods, etc. But the option would be nice.

Edit: Damn, apparently I came up with some ideas about card durations and delays and forgot them, I'll need to consult my notes. ;p I think it was connected to incremental unveiling as delay and fluency development/chunking practice for durations. Hmm.

But first we need a card maturity reminder plugin! Overture, you proooomised!

As far as the OP plugin, what I'd want would be simply a hard limit for how long a card can be displayed without flipping it before it's automatically failed, and a minimum delay before flipping it once you grade it (I think the research I read experimented with blanking the Question or adding distractors also, I'll have to re-read).

I won't disagree with how one could find this useful, but I would imagine having a 2 button system would be better. Pass & Fail. 1 & 3 would probably work fine for most needs. Or you could have the pass value derived off of the time, that's fine too. But having no fail button would cause you to wait quite a long while. I rarely spend more then 20 seconds on a card anymore. So yeah, customizable would be a must.

If your doing physical exercise, you could probably macro some buttons to something like a DDR mat.

Anyway, since this is a generic topic name. Can someone make a better "Audible Timer" plugin? The current one dings only after the first card answer, and dings an extra time after your last review.

nest0r, an auto-fail / auto-pass plug-in would also do. Makes even more sense than waiting forever until a card fails or a key-press event takes place.

Daichi, yes the topic title is generic. I couldn't come up with something better so i left it at that. The DDR mat would be great, but I don't own one. (And will not buy one either.) I would jump for joy and be glad with a simple plug-in.