Anki Browser causes everything to lag a lot

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I use clozes on articles and books. This results in many clozes in a note and also in a sort field, question, answer columns that have long text. I did read that if the columns have a lot of text it causes these lag issues by browser (see Having a note type with over 127 fields and the "Exclude from unqualified searches (slower)" option enabled causes regular expression browser searches to fail - #2 by dae). If I dont hide the cloumns with long text everything get super laggy. editor also.

When I hide them, everything gets fast.

But if I hide all the columns with text I cannot find my notes anymore when I search, because in browser I only see now the columns named like Cloze1, Cloze2,… and so on

I wanted to ask if there is any fix, setting or addon for that issue? This is really a problem.

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If it’s just the abundance of text in the Browser display that is causing the issue, you can use Browser Appearance to be more selective about what is shown in the Question/Answer columns. Card Templates - Anki Manual

You might also consider adding a keywords/summary/glossary field. Then you can use that as your sort-field and it will give you enough detail about the notes.