Better deck picker screen

Requested features

In Tasks.org when you long press on a task, it selects it and shows some options at the top. You can then drag and drop the task to make it a subtask of another task, or select more tasks by just tapping and perform actions on them.

Edit: The video doesn’t work anymore for some reason. You can watch it here. (End of edit)

As you can see, their implementation is a bit clunky, but the idea is perfect imo.

AnkiDroid’s current state

  1. You can’t delete, export or create a shortcut to multiple decks at once.
  2. You have to rename “child” to “parent::child” to make it a subdeck of “parent” OR create a new subdeck, move all the cards and delete “child”.
  3. Too many options shown at once:

Related discussions

In a GitHub issue there was an attempt to do this and they ended up with a PR that never got off the ground.

The questions raised in that PR shouldn’t be a problem if we follow Tasks.org’s design (the options would appear at the top).

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