Quicker Anki

Plenty of part of anki may become more efficient. More precisely, anki is not optimized for power user, and some actions may become slow when you have a big collection or complicated notes. This add-on improve the speed of some actions. In the case where you only use basic card and have a small collection, you probably won't see any difference while installing this add-on.

Warning

This add-on change plenty of methods. Which means that this add-on risks to be incompatible with other add-on. Incompatible add-on will be listed here when I learn about them.

In particular it is incompatible with add-ons:

• 12287769 «Explain deletion». This add-on ensure that the file deleted.txt state why notes are deleted.
• Database checker/fixer explained, more fixers 1135180054

Please instead use-addon 777545149 which merges those three add-ons

Furthemore, this add-on has a compatibility issue with night mode, go to «View → Night Mode → Choose what to style» and deactivate Night Mode for Clayout. It would solve the problem.

What this add-on improve

Note type with a lot of card type

Assume you have a note type with a lot of card type, or with a lot of card.

• Assume you edit the note type. Then, closing the editor and saving the note type may take several minutes. This is because anki recompute some useless data and does not consider the fact that some template did not change.
• Assume that you add a card, it sometime takes many seconds. A big part is also lost recomputing useless data.

This add-on just ensure that those computations are done only when it is required.

Reordering cards

Let us assume you switch a deck so that cards are selected in random order (or so that they are selected in creation order). Then anki reorder every card, and they discard the reordering of cards which are not new, which makes no sens.

This add-on ensures that only new cards are reordered.

Usage

Just install this add-on.

Version 2.0

None

Internal

We give methods changed by this add-on.

Both adding card and changing note type require to change:

• anki.models.ModelManager.save

To change note type's editino, we change:

• aqt.clayout.CardLayout.init
• aqt.clayout.CardLayout.onRemove
• aqt.clayout.CardLayout.onReorder
• aqt.clayout.CardLayout.onAddCard
• aqt.clayout.CardLayout.reject
• aqt.fields.FieldDialog.reject
• aqt.fields.FieldDialog.init
• aqt.fields.FieldDialog._uniqueName
• anki.collection._Collection.genCards
• anki.models.ModelManager._updateRequired
• anki.models.ModelManager._syncTemplates
• anki.models.ModelManager.availOrds

To improve the creation of note, we change:

• aqt.editor.Editor.saveAddModeVars
• aqt.fields.FieldDialog.reject
• aqt.models.Moleds.onRename
• aqt.models.Moleds.modelChanged
• aqt.models.Moleds.onAdd
• aqt.models.Moleds.saveModel

To reorder card quickly, we change:

• anki.sched.Scheduler.randomizeCards
• anki.sched.Scheduler.orderCards
• anki.sched.Scheduler.sortCards
• anki.schedv2.Scheduler.randomizeCards
• anki.schedv2.Scheduler.orderCards
• anki.schedv2.Scheduler.sortCards

Links, licence and credits

Notes

I believe it should be implemented in anki's core code, but this was refused.

• https://anki.tenderapp.com/discussions/ankidesktop/32549-potential-pull-request
• https://github.com/dae/anki/pull/297#issuecomment-481120247

Some methods calling anki.models.ModelManager.save are not modified, because they are long and rarely used; so it's better no to touch them to avoid incompatibility with :

• anki.collection._Collection.fixIntegrity
• aqt.importing.ImportDialog.accept
• anki.storage._upgradeSchema
• anki.storage._upgradeClozeModel