Feature Discussion: Queue hopping

[JeffAlyanak]

I'm a big fan of AnkiMorphs and it's become a key part of my language learning, but I've found that there are some morphs/lemmas that I need to prioritize.

Will it does slightly subvert the occurrence prioritized, 1T ordering, I believe some way to tag cards in such a way that they are always placed at the start of the new card order would be useful for such situations.

I'd be happy to put together the pull request myself, but think it would make sense to discuss with users and the devs about how best to implement such a feature.

To keep things idiomatic—and to make it low friction for users—I though using either tags or flags would be ideal.

For example, users could optionally enable "queue hopping" and configure in the settings menu which flag or tag to use. When enabled, all matching cards would get shifted to the front of the new card queue in random order.

All other cards would be shifted as per existing logic.

[mortii]

You can already do this natively in anki:

[JeffAlyanak]

@mortii

Yes, but as soon as AnkiMorphs runs it'll shift it around again.

[JeffAlyanak]

I don't believe AnkiMorphs currently has any way to know that I've manually positioned a card and want it to stay there.

Unless I'm mistaken, that's not really possible in Anki with the reposition dialog alone. AnkiMorphs would need to read something like a flag or tag to know that the user wants a card to ignore the 1T sort logic.

[mortii]

Yes, but as soon as AnkiMorphs runs it'll shift it around again.

If you want the changes to persist for that long then you might have a deeper problem. Have you tried changing the algorithm to bias the priorities more/exclusively?

Another thing you can do is to exclude the tag you give the cards, that way they won't shift when you recalc:

I think that should achieve the behavior you want.

[JeffAlyanak]

Will that prevent AnkiMorphs from shifting other cards in front of them?

[mortii]

It's not technically guaranteed, but it's very likely unless you are just starting out. Check the lowest score/due on your ankimorphs cards and you will find the upper boundary.