Are there an add-on that displays the estimated time remaining in Anki Desktop like AnkiDroid does?

gbrl.sc · September 9, 2021, 2:38pm

I needed to use AnkiDroid for the first time last week - as I was away from my PC - and found this very interesting feature that helped me to keep more focused on getting the reviews done.

Are there an add-on that brings this features to Anki for PC?

I’ve looked into Anki Droid’s code and, if I understood it correctly, I found that this is the script to display the remaining time (from line 190 on):

github.com

ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/27dbaeed881d3a1ef7b775311dabdf0780d3fc7f/AnkiDroid/src/main/java/com/ichi2/libanki/Utils.java#L190

    
      
              }
          }
          
          
/**
           * Return a string representing how much time remains
           *
           * @param context The application's environment.
           * @param time_s The time to format, in seconds
           * @return The time quantity string. Something like "3 minutes left" or "2 hours left".
           */
          public static String remainingTime(Context context, long time_s) {
              int time_x;  // Time in unit x
              int remaining_seconds; // Time not counted in the number in unit x
              int remaining; // Time in the unit smaller than x
              Resources res = context.getResources();
              if (time_s < TIME_HOUR_LONG) {
                  // get time remaining, but never less than 1
                  time_x = Math.max((int) Math.round(time_s / TIME_MINUTE), 1);
                  return res.getQuantityString(R.plurals.reviewer_window_title, time_x, time_x);
                  //It used to be minutes only. So the word "minutes" is not
                  //explicitly written in the ressource name.

And this one has something to do with the total number of cards and the estimated time:

github.com

ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/51ac9055dbcb68085aa96a9766e2b466a3f159a1/AnkiDroid/src/main/java/com/ichi2/anki/StudyOptionsFragment.java#L701

    
      
                      if (fullNewCount > 0) {
                          Runnable setNewTotalText = () -> mTextNewTotal.setText(String.valueOf(fullNewCount));
                          if (!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()) {
                              mTextNewTotal.post(setNewTotalText);
                          }
                      }
                  });
                  mFullNewCountThread.start();
              }
          
          
    // Set total number of cards
              mTextTotal.setText(String.valueOf(data.mNumberOfCardsInDeck));
              // Set estimated time remaining
              if (data.mEta != -1) {
                  mTextETA.setText(Integer.toString(data.mEta));
              } else {
                  mTextETA.setText("-");
              }
              // Rebuild the options menu
              configureToolbar();
          }

If there’s no add-on with such features for Anki Desktop, I hope some skilled user get interested in developing it (and please make it compatible with version 2.1.44, if possible).

NameLessGO · September 9, 2021, 3:35pm

There is More Decks Stats and Time Left - AnkiWeb, but would be a nice feature to see “time average” displayed in “reviewer” just like AnkiDroid, with the option to remove it in case of user preference

gbrl.sc · September 9, 2021, 7:23pm

Just found this post in other forum. It seems that the add-on I described before does exist.
Does anyone here know what add-on is this?

gbrl.sc · September 9, 2021, 7:41pm

Thank you!
This add-on is helpful but it’d be nice to see this information displayed in the reviewer as well. I just checked its source code and I guess that this may be achieved by changing the last two lines:

aqt.deckbrowser.DeckBrowser._renderStats = anki.hooks.wrap(
    aqt.deckbrowser.DeckBrowser._renderStats, renderStats, 'around')

If I understood it correctly, these lines wrap the information generated by the code above it around the stats that are displayed by standard in the deckbrowser. So, maybe it could be modified to display the information in the bottom bar of the reviewer (or somewhere else) instead.

I don’t know (yet) how to do it, though.

NameLessGO · September 10, 2021, 2:58pm

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1508357010

gbrl.sc · September 11, 2021, 1:00am

Yeah, that’s it. Thank you!

gbrl.sc · September 11, 2021, 1:04am

Got it:
stats_reviewer