Anki Quick Field Focus

Quickly focus on a particular field in the card browser using a keyboard shortcut. When trying to populate a particular field for many notes at once, it's helpful to have a shortcut which jumps direcly to a particular field from within the browser.

Installation

Install from https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1199312228

Configuration

You do need to configure the addon to tell it which field in your for a given note type needs to be focused. After installing the addon, select it in the Anki addon manager, then click Config

For each shortcut that you need, add an entry which contains the note type, the keyboard shortcut, and the name of the field to focus on.

For example, I have a note type called Chinese-Words, and within that note type, I want to quickly focus on field Example using shortcut Ctrl+T

Note: if you are a Mac user: declaring a shortcut as Ctrl+T will allow you to use that shortcut while pressing Command+T.

{
    "focus_field_shortcuts" : [
        {
            "note_type": "Chinese-Words",
            "shortcut": "Ctrl+T",
            "field": "Example"
        }
    ]
}

Want to configure multiple field ? Just add them this way:

{
    "focus_field_shortcuts" : [
        {
            "note_type": "Chinese-Words",
            "shortcut": "Ctrl+T",
            "field": "Example"
        },
        {
            "note_type": "Chinese-Words",
            "shortcut": "Ctrl+Q",
            "field": "Romanization"
        }            
    ]
}