# New Release Has Broken an Awesome Hidden Anki Feature **URL:** \ **Category:** Suggestions\ **Created:** [November 23, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-release-has-broken-an-awesome-hidden-anki-feature/15224 "2021-11-23T15:41:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lowken10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/lowken10/32/7312_2.png) [@lowken10](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/lowken10)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-release-has-broken-an-awesome-hidden-anki-feature/15224/1 "2021-11-23T15:41:40Z")
Hello, My name is Ken and I’m an Anki super user. I love Anki and it’s helped my career immensely. I’m a software developer and I use Anki to achieve a level of software fluency that allows me to excel in my career. I wish I could meet the creater of Anki and Thank Him. I purchased the iPhone version a few times as my way of saying thank you. In any case the recent update to Anki Desktop broke an amazing an important aspect of Anki and I’m compelled to point this out and beg you to add this feature back. Some of my cards are text input cards. For example I might have a card that says what is the sql keyword to allows you to remove duplicate rows from this query? The answer is “distinct”. Anki had this cool feature where if you miss-typed the answer you could click edit and then close and you would be able to enter the input again. I used this feature all the time. The reason for this when I’m learning a new fact, typing it in multiple times helps with muscle memory. Going through that beautiful feedback loop a few times helps me retain the information. Again, this is especially useful when learning a new piece of information. The new update eliminates this work flow. Now when you click on edit and close you can no longer re-enter the answer. Can we simply keep the behavior that when a user clicks edit the text entered is cleared out and the user can type the answer again? Thank you for reading this and thank you for creating an amazing piece of software. Regards, Ken ---
**Author:** ![BlueGreenMagick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@BlueGreenMagick](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/BlueGreenMagick)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-release-has-broken-an-awesome-hidden-anki-feature/15224/2 "2021-11-23T15:50:06Z")
Rating then undoing may be a good alternative. (Press space, then ctrl+z) ---
**Author:** ![lowken10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/lowken10/32/7312_2.png) [@lowken10](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/lowken10)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-release-has-broken-an-awesome-hidden-anki-feature/15224/3 "2021-11-23T16:36:45Z")
That works. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![kleinerpirat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/kleinerpirat/32/19863_2.png) [@kleinerpirat](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/kleinerpirat)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-release-has-broken-an-awesome-hidden-anki-feature/15224/4 "2021-11-23T18:16:45Z")
A shortcut to refresh (restart) the current card might get introduced with the following PR: > > > This could be seen as the first PR adressing the issue of "Previewing cards from… the editor" (and thus is post v2.1.45 :) ), even though it does not add any Previewer component. It adds several features: > > 1. Flip cards during review with \f\. "f" previously was "Create filtered deck", which I put on "Ctrl+F". Other options would be "c", etc, but I thought the mnemonic was good. > 2. Make \F5\ update the current card, rather than just replay audio. "r" already replays audio, and F5 refreshing the card makes intuitive sense. > 3. Make Edit Current update alongside the reviewer. Advancing in the reviewer will update Edit Current (this also makes it act more according to its name). > 4. Make Reviewer live-update upon edits in Edit Current. I don't think NOTE\_TEXT ops can lead the reviewer to an invalid state (?). > 5. Add "obscure mode" to the Edit Current window. Obscure mode will: > \* Generally obscure fields, if edit current has no focus > \* While displaying the question/front, it will only unobscure the currently focused field. > 6. Remove the Close button in EditCurrent, \Ctrl+Enter\ will focus the reviewer, allow \Ctrl+W\ to close the window. > > There are two add-ons which currently implement something akin to this PR\1\: > 1. My \[Persistent Editor\](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1686259334) > 2. \[Migaku Editor\](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1051095155) > > These changes combined enable a new way to use the Edit Current window: Rather than opening the editor, making the change, and closing, the user can alternatively leave the window open, focus it when he wants to edit the current card, and refocus the reviewer afterwards. This is really beneficial, if the user wants to make a lot of small changes during review. > > I personally constantly edit during review, and \[it seems I'm not alone with this\](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/ogxc4g/how\_often\_do\_you\_edit\_cards\_during\_review/). Updates to the Undo mechanism, has made flipping cards back to the question side impossible (previously it was possible by opening and closing the editor, which I actually did a lot). > > I think obscuring the fields upon opening the editor during question makes sense even, if he does not want to persist the window: Following scenario: The user sees an error in the question, wants to edit it immediately, however spoils himself because he sees the answer to the question in the Edit Current window. > > \1\There are also several add-ons, which implement editing cards directly in the reviewer. The issue with "Editing in the reviewer" is, that it cannot work if the user uses any JavaScript that modifies field HTML, which is impossible to predict. > > For future reference: there's actually a "blur" in mdicons. ---
**Author:** ![hengiesel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/hengiesel/32/920_2.png) [@hengiesel](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/hengiesel)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-release-has-broken-an-awesome-hidden-anki-feature/15224/5 "2021-11-23T18:56:46Z")
Another way to refresh the card is to click ss. ---
**Author:** ![lowken10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/lowken10/32/7312_2.png) [@lowken10](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/lowken10)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 4:45am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-release-has-broken-an-awesome-hidden-anki-feature/15224/6 "2021-11-24T04:45:44Z")
Huh? I don’t understand… ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 6:45am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-release-has-broken-an-awesome-hidden-anki-feature/15224/7 "2021-11-24T06:45:43Z")
Press the s key on your keyboard twice.