Add column to card browser to indicate suspend status

Anki Suggestions
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In the browser, when looking at the card view’s table, it’s difficult to see which cards are suspended and which are not. I’d like to see both at once and have an unambiguous indicator the status.

Parentheses are not unambiguous as they can indicate suspended or buried.

Row color is not unambiguous as it can indicate suspended, buried or flagged.

Describe the solution you’d like
I’d like to see a new column added to the table that indicates if the card is suspended or not.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered
I’ve right-clicked on the table headings to view the options, but I don’t see an option there for displaying a column for the suspended status.

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Related to Browser: Add a column for flags.

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The colors for suspended and buried are different from each other and from all of the flag colors.

Parentheses alone doesn’t distinguish between suspended and buried, but when combined with the unique row colors you can tell them apart. If that’s not enough – or when flag color overrides suspended/buried row color – you can also narrow your search by card state with is:suspended or is:buried to know for sure, because a card cannot be both suspended and buried.

4

Yes, you are restating what I wrote and that you quoted. I’m not sure what your comment is attempting to add to the conversation.

5

I was reminding you that there are already a few ways to differentiate those states. So I offered you other ideas for how you could get what you need from the existing features.

When functionality gets suggested that would be duplicative/redundant, it’s less likely that already limited dev time will be devoted to it. I’d rather suggest alternatives for you than have you waiting for a feature that might never come.

Now that you’ve considered the existing functionality – if there’s some way that it is inadequate for you, more information about your use case might help a dev understand if there’s a need that isn’t being served.

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Can you explain how search function isn’t adequate for your purposes?

I’m thinking whether an alternative would work here or not: highlight matched cards after a search instead of only showing the matched cards.

Then you don’t need seperate columns for buried/suspended/flags. But then again, I don’t understand the workflow here properly.

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We shouldn’t assume that the user wants to search. In my case I don’t want to search. I want to see all of my cards in the browser, unfiltered. Or view all cards of a specific note type without additional filtering.

I’d also like to be able to click on a column heading to sort the items by suspended or buried (or by flag) just like I can do with the existing headings.

We’re already overloading the meaning of highlighted rows to indicate multiple unrelated things. A row can only show one color at a time. That makes the meaning of the highlighting ambiguous. One of the reasons I posted this suggestion is to get away from that.