What “add over time” means
When a list contains several useful words, phrases, facts, or examples, adding everything to your review list at once can create more new material than you want today.
saves the list as a queue. Learnalist introduces one item first, then checks when another item can be added as you continue reviewing.
In practice:
- The complete list is saved for learning.
- One item is introduced first.
- Your review activity allows later items to be introduced.
- The queue finishes when there is nothing left to introduce.
This lets you save useful material when you find it without turning it into a large same-day workload.
Why introduce material gradually
Smaller introductions can make a review list easier to scan and help you focus on what is ready today. You can keep a larger source list without asking yourself to learn every row immediately.
This is particularly useful for:
- A vocabulary list built around one topic.
- Phrases for a situation you expect to encounter.
- Facts or examples collected from reading or study.
- A longer guide divided into several related sections.
The feature controls when items enter your review list. You still decide whether each active item should return sooner or later.
One list or a whole guide
Learnalist supports two related ways of learning over time.
One list over time
Use when one Learnalist list contains several items you want introduced gradually.
For example, a list might contain 20 Norwegian football phrases. Learnalist starts with one phrase, then introduces later phrases as the queue progresses.
A guide with several sections
Some Learnalist guides divide a subject into separate review lists. Use to save those sections as one guide-level sequence.
The first section starts before the later sections. Active sections continue to use the normal list queue, and more than one section may eventually overlap. Learnalist avoids starting every section at once.
How progression works
For a guide, Learnalist also tracks the parent sequence. It decides when another section should start, while each active child section continues through the normal overtime process. The guide finishes when all its sections are finished, skipped, or cancelled.
Existing items and stopping
If an item already exists in your spaced repetition list, Learnalist does not create another review item for it. The overtime queue skips that duplicate and checks the next available item.
You can remove an ordinary list from overtime or use on a saved guide. Learnalist then stops introducing new items from that list or future sections from that guide.
Stopping is deliberately separate from deletion: it ends future introductions without silently removing material you have already reviewed.
When to use it
Add over time is a good fit when:
- A useful list is larger than you want to begin today.
- You are collecting vocabulary around a theme or situation.
- You want examples from a guide to arrive gradually.
- You are importing words or phrases from another source.
- You want to keep the number of new review items manageable.
For a small list, adding selected items manually may be simpler. For a larger list or a guide with several sections, add over time gives you one place to save the material without starting all of it immediately.
How to begin
From a normal list
- Find or create a Learnalist list.
- Open the list tools.
- Choose .
- Continue from your spaced repetition review list.
From a learning guide
- Open a guide, such as the Norwegian learning guides.
- Choose .
- Let Learnalist introduce its sections gradually.
- Save an individual section instead if you only want one part of the guide.