Streamlining Subdeck Navigation in Card Browser: Am I Missing Something?

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I’ve asked this many times: in the card browser, under deck “lv1,” you see cards from “lv1,” “/lv1/foldera,” and “/lv1/folderb.” To focus on “foldera,” you must switch to the main window, scroll, and click through. Am I missing an easier way?

I use my own “Switch Main Window Deck” (SMWD) addon (shared before): select a card in “foldera,” hit menu > SMWD, and it’s set. Adding notes (right away now) or browsing “foldera” (need to add this to the addon) becomes simple. Why isn’t this workflow standard?

I’ve raised this before and don’t want to seem like I’m pushing something. I just wonder if there’s a better solution I’ve overlooked. Thanks!

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Why not use a search query instead? If the deck is lv1/foldera, search for “deck:lv1::foldera” and you’ll see the cards only in lv1/foldera (or notes, depending upon the toggle).

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Why do you have to switch to the deck overview? The sidebar in the card browser works just fine for me:
anki

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in the browser list, you could have 20 notes, each from different subdecks.

clicking thru the left sidebar as i mentioned above is not efficient.

in ur photo, only 3 decks.

what if you got 100x decks?

my current addon that:

  1. select the card in the wanted subdeck
  2. menu->addon SMDW
  3. go main window
  4. click on browser
    boom, you are there.

I could fine tune the addon later when i have time,
so becomes.

  1. select the card in the wanted subdeck
  2. menu->addon SMDW2deck
    boom, you are there.

imagine it’s in window’s file explorer or something,
they do have a “open location” or something like that.

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i wanna focus working in the foldera,
and then further filter by tags etc etc.

it surely will be easier/better if anki’s selected deck is foldera.

in your view, then anki should NOT let users select decks.
everyone should use your method i.e. manipulate thru the search field.

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If you’re adamant on not using an existing feature, I can’t help you there. The search bar is there for exactly that purpose. You can filter by tags after writing this search query. I do have over 100 decks as you say, and this is exactly how I filter for cards/notes.
I still don’t see what you’re trying to do that’s not solved with the search query.

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anyway,

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i further modified my “Switch Main Window Deck” addon, then now in browser,
when you highlight a card, then Rt click 's context menu or top menu bar’s command will elicite a popup window, now you can set the Main Window’s Deck to this card’s deck, or delete some text so become this deck’s parent/sibling decks.; c3.7t added that if no such existing deck, it will ask you to CREATE.

after MainWindow’s deck is changed, one can click on “browse” to go into that deck or study.

It could be cultural difference, i found this much better.

ps I used to use free demo of cursor, last month it only provide service to paid user so i paid it… once.
it’s going to be expire so i tried it out again, not to waste the quota. this modification is performed by cursor+c3.7t+agent mode.

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What about using Ctrl + D (Win) or Cmd + D (Mac) to change the deck? Is that what you want to do?

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if you select a card, then ctrl D would be to move that card to another deck.

what i want to , is jump between different decks.

just like in the main windows, you select and click into different decks,
but now i have the browser to help, together with the input window.

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Are you trying to get to the current deck from some other deck currently shown in Browse? Like you selected a deck, opened Browse and then selected a second deck and now you want to go to that deck in the Browse window. This can be achieved with “deck:current”

Are you trying to get to some particular deck from the deck currently shown in Browse? This can be achieved with “deck:(your deck name here, full path)”

Like @Anon_0000 pointed out, the same feature is available in the sidebar. You can also collapse the sidebar decks the same way you would on the main window and you can search within the sidebar itself (beats having to use the main search box for selecting a deck)

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ONE important thing:

in MainWindow you are in deckA, you click browse,
so you are now in browser, you are in deckA,
you click in the sidebar and go to deckB.

however, the MainWindow is kept on deckA.
if you add a new card NOW or do many things, they apply to deckA, not deckB.

that’s the weird issue.

my addon v1 let me Switch MainWindow’s Deck to the current deck in browser
v1+ let me go to some parent decks or create new.
could go siblings if you can type into.