Anki Desktop has a hover tooltip, but even with that I just recently discovered that the globe icon next to some options means “Affects the entire collection”. Adding the icon to the left of the manual text like this 🌎: Affects the entire collection. might make it more obvious. Also, AnkiDroid u…

Feat/Add globe to help tooltip main ← Luc-Mcgrady:help-globe opened 03:22PM - 02 Jul 25 UTC (UTC) [image] Luc-Mcgrady …

[image] ZornHadNoChoice: Adding the icon to the left of the manual text like this 🌎: Affects the entire collection. might make it more obvious. I want to make sure I understand your ask. Are you suggesting the globe be added in the hover text? Or added in the tooltip – which opens when you …

[image] Danika_Dakika: do you mean adding it to the actual Anki Manual? I mean here: [1000699732] I don’t know if it’s necessary to add it to the actual manual . [image] Danika_Dakika: You get there in AnkiDroid by clicking any of those same things. No it doesn’t work. Touching the …

[image] ZornHadNoChoice: No it doesn’t work. Touching the globe icon opens the manual. Same on desktop actually (which makes sense since these screens are shared).

[image] ZornHadNoChoice: No it doesn’t work. Touching the globe icon opens the manual. I’ve never seen that. Tapping/clicking the globe icon opens the tooltip window you showed in your screenshot. It’s the same in desktop (25.02), AnkiDroid (2.20.1), and AnkiMobile (25.02.2). What versions ar…

[image] ZornHadNoChoice: Affects the entire collection. On desktop, if you only hover over the globe icon (not click), you get the tooltip “Affects the entire collection”. If you click, you get the in-app manual. In AnkiDroid you cannot hover over the icon, only tab (which is the same as the …

The tooltip is different from that manual window that I showed in the screenshot above. On desktop, hovering over the globe icon shows this tooltip: [Screenshot 2025-06-15 041630] On AnkiDroid, there is no way to show it.

We’re just having a terminology conflict here. I’ve never heard anything referred to as the “in-app manual.” We generally call the window that you get in Deck Options when you click the :white_question_mark: icon the “tooltips” – and you get the same window when you click on the globe or any feature…

Ankidroid already has press-and-hold to show a little description, like on the search icon here: [1000699748] That can be added for the globe icon, but I honestly think that only a few people are ever going to notice it. The second option you posted seems to be the best. Sadly, I don’t know how t…

[image] ZornHadNoChoice: Ankidroid already has press-and-hold to show a little description The difference might be that is an AnkiDroid-implemented screen, so they can implement long-press features as an alternative to hover. Whereas the Deck Options screen is inherited from Anki. But we’ll l…

I don’t know how ankidroid does this. But it can be done via js in the .svelte files. As a proof of concept, see the following code I found on the internet. You can test it by creating a new basic notetype and pasting this in: Front <svg id="longpress_me" width="300" height="200" style="border: 1px…

Make the globe icon clearer

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ZornHadNoChoice June 14, 2025, 11:56pm 3

I mean here:

I don’t know if it’s necessary to add it to the actual manual.

No it doesn’t work. Touching the globe icon opens the manual.

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Make the globe icon clearer

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