Hide default deck by default

It seems quite a lot of Anki’s new users have been confused by —

If it is not possible to export the app in a state that doesn’t show the new users this “design wart”? I suggest this is done through —

  • Renaming the defualt deck to “Fallback” or “Internal”.
  • Adding another deck called “Default” or “Deck”.
  • Making sure default deck doesn’t appear in presets in the “number of deck using a preset” string.

This will hide the de-facto default deck. Furthermore, to make sure defualt deck do not appear unless some cards get seperated:

  • Make Anki always hide this deck unless it contain cards.

But this is more as an annexure to my core points. If the first three suggestions are applied I believe it will make things a lot less confusing for new users.

This was originally brought up here:

I’ve logged it on Hide default deck by default · Issue #3334 · ankitects/anki · GitHub

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