I have currently 200+ items in the queue, some of them added long ago so I somewhat lost the context when I originally added them. Those words are mainly additional words from the pop-ups or example sentences or stuff looked up in MDBG.

I have stopped all lists from adding and use the + button to get force words to learning from the queue. Is it correct that this will get me the queued new words for studying? Should I get to an empty queue at some point or will there be words added from somewhere else.

Hitting the plus button sometimes seems to me words are added from the lists instead of the queue. Could someone explain what happens if I activate a list for study in between. To me it seems in this case the list words are added to the queue at a preferred rate, especially if I hit + in the study page (studying all) the list words seem to get added rather than working on the 200+ items of the queue.

Thanks

The queue is part of the word-adding rotation like any other list you might have active. So if you activate one list, it'll add one from the list, one from the queue, one from the list, one from the queue, and so on. At least, that's how it should work. If you can reproduce an issue where the queue is ignored, we can look into it.

If you have just the queue (which can't be stopped, currently), then yes, you'll hit an empty queue eventually and Skritter will tell you you have no lists to add from if you try to add.

Thanks for the explanation. Maybe you can put a hint to how this works in your future help documents. Most things are intuitive but for some things users just create a feeling how it should work. If the assumptions are wrong they go astray.

Thanks, Alex