Ideas to make deck/preset interactions more clear?

[Anon_0000]

@ZornHadNoChoice

(the settings automatically save, so why wouldn’t this)

They don’t for me. If I change something and then close the window without saving, I get this:

I’m also wondering whether auto save is actually desirable. Personally, I’d probably be against auto save.

Thanks for your description and the image, that really helped to clear things up!

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@sorata

here are some issues we still face:

1. If the user is changing a lot of options, they don’t have any way to track what they changed and what they didn’t.
2. If the user wants to revert a change they made, it’s not clear whether Anki would save that change too.
3. It’s also not clear how to set a particular setting to the default the options screen opens with. So, do you change the review limit to a non-default and then change it back to default? Simply focus on the field?

The first two make a lot of sense. I don’t understand what you’re trying to describe with number 3, though. Could you paraphrase please?

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@ZornHadNoChoice

Anon_0000’s solution doesn’t address deck specific options (these are only the “This deck”/“Today only” card limits and the “Save to All Subdecks” option

I was quite unhappy with this one as well. I thought about seperating them somehow, but I figured it would be confusing to find the same setting in two different places, just because one affects the presets and one affects the deck directly.

@ZornHadNoChoice

Remove the gear menu: Clicking the gear on the deck picker screen should just open the deck options (export is available in the toolbar).

But how do you (quickly) access all the features that are inside that gear menu for the selected deck? Also: Removing it would break quite a few addons that use this gear menu as well.