im not sure if this is a settings issue or if this is just naturally anki, i was told by chat gpt that its naturally anki but i came here to check
#Need help with the settings of my deck.
rare geyser
prime dawn
Am I understanding this correctly? Your question is, "How do I make it so that Anki shows me learning cards in batches of 4 or 5, and only shows me other cards when I graduate a card from that batch?"
How could this happen?
First, I can imagine how this naturally occurs:
Learning cards show up in your queue as soon as they're due. Your lowest learning and relearning step is 1 minute. It's reasonable that you can study about 5 cards a minute. If you keep on pressing again on those five cards, they will keep on coming due until you press good to send them a little into the future so a new card can take its place.
If you have 60 green (review) cards to review, you get five wrong, they become red (learning) cards, and you keep on cycling through them getting them wrong, I would expect you to see this behavior, because the red cards will be prioritized over the green cards until the red card gets a long enough interval to let a green card sneak in.
If you have instead 60 red cards to review, I wouldn't expect to see this behavior, because the NOT YET reviewed red cards in the queue have an earlier due date and a higher priority than the red cards you just got wrong.
How to force this behavior
The simple and best answer is that you can't and shouldn't. This is not an effective use of your time and it's not a good way to use Anki.
You can use a filtered deck to pull in a limited number of cards at a time and grind through those again and again and again until they graduate, then pull in more cards manually by rebuilding it.
Using ChatGPT
I think ChatGPT is more or less fine for Anki tech support... if you tell it where to look for information.
I would strongly recommend when asking ChatGPT for information that you tell it to look at the manual and also read the sections it uses to give its answer.
Questions
How are you using Anki?
Why do you think this behavior is beneficial?
Maybe we can come up with a more Anki-supported / better approach, if we know more about your use case and desires.