Anking Notetype Shuffle Feature

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Hello,

I see that a “shuffle” feature has recently been added to the anking notetype.
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I have tried to find a changelog or something else that describes what this does, but I have been unable to find anything on reddit, youtube, etc. I am not talented enough to read code, so github wasn’t too helpful either. I was wondering if there is a document that describes this function, what it is, and how to use it.

Thank you!

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Hello,

We recently rolled this out and we are currently still improving it, but to summarize, this feature will allow text in list format to be randomized everytime you review.

So for example

  • My favorite food is {{c1::Pizza}}

  • My second favorite food is {{c1::Ice-cream}}

Previously, you might end up memorizing the answers because you know the word ice-cream is at the bottom. What the shuffle button does is if you have those two lines bullet-pointed and you highlight over the text and click the shuffle button. It will randomly move those around everytime the card comes up. So the next time you do it, it will be

  • My second favorite food is {{c1::Ice-cream}}

  • My favorite food is {{c1::Pizza}}

This makes you memorize the content, rather than the position. We might also implement a way to make it so you don’t see the bullet points. We currently are not using it in the step deck because we don’t use bullet points in the deck especially in the text section, but once that is addressed we may start introducing it on certain cards that can benefit from the shuffle feature

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