# Desktop editor: Preset the currently selected deck, when creating a card
**URL:** https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-editor-preset-the-currently-selected-deck-when-creating-a-card/22631
**Category:** Suggestions
**Created:** [August 27, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-editor-preset-the-currently-selected-deck-when-creating-a-card/22631 "2022-08-27T11:42:16Z")
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### Author:  [@serv0198](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/serv0198)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-editor-preset-the-currently-selected-deck-when-creating-a-card/22631/1 "2022-08-27T11:42:16Z")
When a new card is created, a seemingly arbitrary deck is preselected, which almost always (if one has enough decks) forces the user to select the appropriate deck.
The current preset criteria is actually mysterious - I though it was the one selected in the previous session, but it isn’t.
It’d be much more user-friendly/efficient, if the deck selected in the tree panel (if selected) was preset instead.
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### Author:  [@Rumo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Rumo)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-editor-preset-the-currently-selected-deck-when-creating-a-card/22631/2 "2022-08-27T13:03:05Z")
Try this setting:
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### Author:  [@serv0198](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/serv0198)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2023, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-editor-preset-the-currently-selected-deck-when-creating-a-card/22631/3 "2023-01-22T10:43:38Z")
I’ve dug a bit, and the problem is that the “current” deck is always the one selected in the main window (Decks).
That selection is still applied when current window is Browse, which I think is a bug (instead, it should be the deck selected in the tree panel).
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### Author:  [@cqg](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/cqg)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-editor-preset-the-currently-selected-deck-when-creating-a-card/22631/4 "2023-01-22T15:05:25Z")
If you use “Create Copy” instead of clicking on “Add”, the new note [will use current’s card deck](https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/30dc2cf7eaa395339ab096021f2be6925fd260dc) by default.
But yes, I also think that most users would expect the same behavior after clicking on “Add” note, so adding “When adding default to current’s card deck” as an option would be great.
+1
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### Author:  [@seniorGzus](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/seniorGzus)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-editor-preset-the-currently-selected-deck-when-creating-a-card/22631/5 "2023-01-22T17:47:12Z")
I also find it confusing, so at this point I always hit Ctrl D to change the deck as soon as I enter the ‘Add’ screen
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### Author:  [@serv0198](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/serv0198)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-editor-preset-the-currently-selected-deck-when-creating-a-card/22631/6 "2023-01-22T20:12:15Z")
> [@cqg](#):
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> If you use “Create Copy” instead of clicking on “Add”, the new note will use current’s card deck by default.
Thanks for the suggestion! I use the same workaround, indeed 🙂
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### Author:  [@serv0198](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/serv0198)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-editor-preset-the-currently-selected-deck-when-creating-a-card/22631/7 "2023-01-23T21:29:23Z")
Open source and good UX have always been, and will always be, sworn enemies: issue #2341 (“Preference “When adding, default to current deck” has confusing (or maybe buggy) UX”) in the ankitects/anki GitHub repo has been closed as not an issue. 🤷