Is it possible to Flag cards in Preview Mode on Ankidroid? If not I think would be practical to have that functionality

[AnkiSaveMe]

Hi everyone,

Is it possible to Flag cards in Preview Mode on Ankidroid? If not I think would be practical to have that functionality.

AnkiSaveMe

[Mike Hardy]

Hmm - if we start adding every bit of functionality the reviewer has that the previewer does not (as it seems everyone wants, feature by feature):

what *is* the difference between the reviewer and the previewer?

Seems to me it is just that you can look at cards without consequence / no scheduler judgement

Should we just kill the previewer and have a "no review consequences" reviewer mode?

I'd like to avoid further complexity in the Previewer if possible but a "no consequence" reviewer mode is interesting.

-Mike

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[Andy Cho]

Hi Mark,

Thank you very much for your reply! I think I understand your point. Here's my issue. I want to use flags to edit selected cards altogether. When I am using Ankidroid, I would select decks/subdecks of cards and use "Card browser -> Preview cards" to quickly review the complete set of cards in order. And whenever I want to edit selected cards and include additional images or paragraphs to them, I have to exit "Preview mode" and then find the individual notes/cards to edit them. If the cards can be flagged during the "Preview" mode, then I can just focus on flagging the selected cards while I am previewing them (since images can be conveniently viewed in the preview mode), then when I am finished "Previewing" the cards I can exit the "Preview mode" and easily find flagged cards in a "Card browser" mode to make changes/edits to them.

I hope it makes some sense to you!

 

Sincerely,

Andrew Cho

On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 9:34:07 PM UTC-4, Mike Hardy wrote:

Hmm - if we start adding every bit of functionality the reviewer has that the previewer does not (as it seems everyone wants, feature by feature):

what *is* the difference between the reviewer and the previewer?

Seems to me it is just that you can look at cards without consequence / no scheduler judgement

Should we just kill the previewer and have a "no review consequences" reviewer mode?

I'd like to avoid further complexity in the Previewer if possible but a "no consequence" reviewer mode is interesting.

-Mike

On 6/6/20 8:10 PM, AnkiSaveMe wrote:

Hi everyone,

Is it possible to Flag cards in Preview Mode on Ankidroid? If not I think would be practical to have that functionality.

AnkiSaveMe

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[Axel Merboldt]

One way could be to enable gestures in preview. Then you only need to define a gesture to flag/mark your card or to edit it directly, and you could use all the functions during previews as well.
But I have no clue how complicated it would be to enable gestures in preview just as in reviews. Probably @Mike can tell us about that?

So far my only observation is that a tap on the screen in preview will switch to fullscreen, and a swipe down from the top will show the bottom menu again. User defined gestures don't seem to work here.

Best regards

[Andy Cho]

Hi Axel,

That's a cool idea. I want to mention that there are four different colors to flags and being able to flag cards with different colors is also helpful. Also, I find flagging more useful than marking cards for further editing (since they are easier to find visually). Using gestures would be cool but if that's complicated to program into AnkiDroid, then simply being able to use flag function from the top border (edge) of the blue frame would be helpful as well (maybe it could be turned on/off from setting).

Best regards

On Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 2:50:46 AM UTC-4, Axel Merboldt wrote:

One way could be to enable gestures in preview. Then you only need to define a gesture to flag/mark your card or to edit it directly, and you could use all the functions during previews as well.
But I have no clue how complicated it would be to enable gestures in preview just as in reviews. Probably @Mike can tell us about that?

So far my only observation is that a tap on the screen in preview will switch to fullscreen, and a swipe down from the top will show the bottom menu again. User defined gestures don't seem to work here.

Best regards

[Mike Hardy]

You can search for cards by flag in the card browser for edit.

There's a separate item for being able to preview from the note editor https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/5644

That combo might do it

Fastest way to have an issue resolved is of course to propose the code that makes the change as a pull request: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Contributing

-Mike

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[Andy Cho]

Hi Mike,

Thank you very much for the tips! I think it might still be nice to be able to flag the cards while previewing cards so you can just sort the flagged cards at the next step to edit the flagged cards all together. I wish I had the ability to code something like this so that I can contribute!

Sincerely,

Andrew

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