arthur-milchior / anki-keep-empty-note

«Empty cards» won't empty notes

Tag notes with no card

Rationale

Sometime, you press «Empty cards...», and anki also delete note. Because when a note has no more card, anki deletes it. (see [https://github.com/Arthur-Milchior/anki/blob/master/documentation/deletion.md] for more information about deletion)

However, maybe you didn't actually want to delete the whole note and lose its entire content. May be you thought anki were going to delete a few card which became empty, not realizing it will in fact delete EVERY cards, and thus delete the note, and its fields, and its tag...

With this add-on, when you press «Empty cards», cards are deleted as usual, with one exception. If deleting the cards leave the note empty, then the cards are not deleted. Instead, the tag NoteWithNoCard is added to those notes, and the browser is opened to show those notes.

You can still delete those notes if that's what you want, but you have either to disable this add-on and restart anki, or to delete them manually from the browser.

Warning

The tag NoteWithNoCard is automatically removed from notes which now have a card, when you use «empty cards». This is probably what you want, so that the tag states the truth.

Note that a note with no cards can also occurs because of the synchronization process. In which card, this add-on won't save the note. Instead, you can save it using add-on 1135180054.

Version 2.0

Port by lovac42

Internal

This add-on modifies the method aqt.main.AnkiQt.onEmptyCards.

Links, licence and credits

Key	Value
Copyright	Arthur Milchior [email protected]
Based on	Anki code by Damien Elmes [email protected]
License	GNU AGPL, version 3 or later; http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html
Source in	https://github.com/Arthur-Milchior/anki-keep-empty-note
Addon number	2018640062

anki-keep-empty-note's Issues

Set upper limit of Anki version

Arthur, I'm sure you know this, but I think it could help to find this info in the description or at least this issue here.

This add-on is disadvantageous on more recent Anki versions (I notice it on 2.1.35).

• Anki by itself got a new function that can keep notes with no valid cards
• when additionally habing this add-on enabled, Anki will not even detect cards when you have empty 1st cards. It will not even detect cards of notes that have some valid (= non-empty) cards and some empty cards.

So, as far as I see, Anki has taken this add-on's purpose over, and the add-on inhibits the normal "check for empty cards function".

Because of this, I suggest you set an upper limit on Ankiweb: the latest Anki version that did not incorporate this add-on's function.