This is the add-on description for Advanced Previewer, as found on AnkiWeb.
Extends the card preview window with the following new features:
- Preview multiple cards at once
- Review cards from the previewer
- Show question or answer side by default
COMPATIBILITY
This add-on only works with Anki's stable release branch (2.0.x ≥ 2.0.30). The 2.1 beta branch is not supported at this point in time.
RELEASE LOG
2017-08-05: v0.4.1 – A few new features and major performance improvements 2017-03-23: v0.3.2 – Completely reworked the add-on, introducing card reviewing and a new options menu 2016-12-09: v0.2.1 – Added support for the "Replay Buttons on Card" and "JS Booster" add-ons 2016-12-04: v0.2.0 – Initial public release
LATEST CHANGES AND NEWS
2017-08-05 – v0.4.1
- Major performance improvements to card rendering
- Support for third-party extensions
- Confirmation dialog when invoking previewer on a large number of flashcards (>= 200)
- Delete hotkey (Alt+Del)
- Smaller bug fixes and improvements
USAGE
Most of the features should be pretty self-explanatory, but I've recorded a quick video demonstration that should help you get started with the add-on:
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Aside from the three main features mentioned above, Advanced Previewer also updates the previewer window in the following ways:
- fixes a number of smaller inconsistencies when navigating cards
- adds the ability to mark (
CTRL+M) and suspend (CTRL+J) cards while the previewer is active - adds five hotkeys to the previewer:
ALT+Home: go to first cardALT+End: go to last cardALT+PgUpto jump to previous card, skipping q/a sidesALT+PgDwnto jump to next card, skipping q/a sidesALT+Deleteto delete current note selection
OPTIONS
Advanced Previewer comes with a simple options menu which can be invoked through Tools → Advanced Previewer Options.... You can use this to enable card reviewing support, among other things:
IMPORTANT NOTES
Add-on Incompatibilities
Advanced Previewer is incompatible with the following add-ons:
Other add-ons that overwrite the previewer functions will also not work with Advanced Previewer.
For add-on authors that are interested in adding support for Advanced Previewer to their add-ons: Please refer to anki-previewer-tagbrowser. py for an example of how third-party add-ons can be integrated into the previewer.
Performance Considerations
Rendering multiple cards at once can be taxing on the system, so please don't try invoking the preview window on too many items. A couple hundred or so should still be fine in most cases.
Reviewing Cards in Advance
Advanced Previewer offers an option to review cards before their due date. This is disabled by default, but can be enabled through the options menu.
When reviewing cards in advance, please be mindful of the following:
- There are some general caveats to studying ahead which you should be aware of.
- In contrast to Anki's default custom study option, Advanced Previewer will present you with four answer buttons. These follow the same ease steps you see when reviewing cards regularly:
- "Again" moves the card into the relearn queue
- "Hard", "Good", and "Easy" will reschedule the card using the same ease as regular reviews, but also take the earliness of the review into account. For cards that are reviewed very early you will be presented with three very similar intervals because it's too early to draw viable conclusions on your actual review performance. As the scheduled due date draws nearer these intervals will start to diverge, ever moving closer to the intervals you would see if you were to review the card when it's actually due.
- Advanced Previewer implements a variation of the formula found in the Remove "study ahead" penalty add-on by rjgoif. The intervals scheduled by the add-on can stray pretty far from what you'd see when reviewing cards ahead in a custom study session. Please make sure to read the original add-on description linked above for more information on the rationale behind implementing this algorithm.
CREDITS AND LICENSE
Advanced Previewer is Copyright © 2016-2017 Aristotelis P.
This add-on was originally developed on a commission by BB on the Anki support forums. The card reviewing feature introduced in the latest update was commissioned by another fellow Anki user who would like to remain anonymous. I would like to thank both of them for their great ideas and generous support in writing this add-on.
Licensed under the GNU AGPL v3. The source code for this add-on is available on GitHub.
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