ANKI SM-2 scheduler bugs when pressing "Easy" during learning phase

@Martin It looks like the Anki SM-2 scheduler still does not respect the “learning phase” of cards for pressing “Easy” or 4! Days late should only be computed and used for reckoning new intervals after graduating to the exponential phase!

Look at this card:

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Even though it may be an edge case (long time - 4 months - from creation to the first rating (forgot), and again a long time without properly reviewing), if I only rated once, and “Forgot”, the card never graduated; so the interval proposed by the system for pressing “Easy” or 4 should be the “Easy interval” in my settings (10 days)! Again:

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The system is proposing 4.2 months for “Easy” in this edge case, instead of the 10 days that supposedly would be used as the first interval.

Another situation:

Pressing “Easy” during the learning phase is changing the card’s ease factor! As I understand it, and as it is in both SM-2 and Anki, nothing in the learning phase affects the ease factor of a card. This is precisely the reason of having a learning phase. If actions there are changing the ease factor, there is no learning phase at all in RemNote!

If I press “Easy” during learning phase, I’ll instantly graduate the card, that is, jump to the exponential phase. I’ll also have the benefit of an extended interval (“Easy interval”). But a greater multiplier for all the exponential phase? No, that is not the promise and the intention at all!

As far as I can see, the team corrected this behavior, and pressing “Again” or “Hard” during the learning phase does not affect card’s ease anymore. Thanks team!

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