Hi,
There must have been an update to Anki because right now I am seeing the hour and minute that a card was created and this is making the UI look very bad and the app is much less appealing. I just want to see the date year-month-day a card was created or modified. I don’t want to see the hour and minute (it takes up two lines and so I see less cards on my Anki screen at one time). I want the optionality to not see the hour and minute a card was created.
This is how it is on Anki Desktop and the devs like to avoid adding options as much as possible, so it’s unlikely to be added sadly.
To me, they appear in a single line using the same columns as your screenshot. You can change the card browser font scaling from the accessibility settings.
I don’t know why they had to change it. It was perfect the way it was. What they should do is to have hour and minute in a separate column for those who actually want to see that information.
I think for most users, it’s irrelevant and looks bad.
The timestamp is stored as a Unix time-code, so my first thought was that truncating it would be more of a hassle than just converting it. But you’re right, they used to just show the date for the same information.
Perhaps a “Truncate timestamps” option – like the “Truncate content” option – would be good fit for some users with smaller screens?
Many programs (such as the macOS Finder) will automatically use shorter and shorter date/time formats as you make the column narrower.
Is the column-width adjustable in the new AnkiDroid Card browser? I just started using it and I haven’t seen a way to do that.
I agree, it is info overload and makes the whole thing harder to skim. Is it however worth adding another option to toggle “time vs no-time”? I think not.
And as for new columns altogether, that would just eat up horizontal space.
Maybe make it show the time only if there’s enough space to fit things in a single line? So for example, if you have too many columns it just shows the date.
