Deck Browser

The deck browser is the main navigation surface of the app: a list of all your decks, with each deck expandable to reveal its sub-items. Selecting a deck or any of its sub-items opens the corresponding playlist. It lives in the left sidebar on both Mac and iOS. On iPhone, where there’s no room for a permanent sidebar, you can swipe in from the left edge to reveal it, or tap the sidebar toggle in the top-left.

Anatomy

At the top level, the deck browser lists your decks — one row per deck. Expand a deck to reveal its sub-items, which always appear in this order:

  1. Unfiled — cards in the deck that aren’t in any folder. Always present.
  2. Folders — one row per folder you’ve created in this deck, listed between Unfiled and Trash. Only shown if the deck has folders.
  3. Trash — cards and folders that have been moved to the trash. Always present.
  4. Tagged — a header that appears only if at least one card in the deck has a tag. Underneath it is one row per tag found in the deck.

Deck rows

A deck row shows the deck’s name and, when applicable, a small blue indicator. The indicator’s default behavior is to appear when the deck’s Study Queue has at least one card waiting — a quick “this deck has something for you today” signal. You can change when (or whether) the indicator appears in the deck’s settings (see Decks).

Deck rows do not show a card count — only the indicator.

Sub-item rows

Every sub-item — Unfiled, each folder, Trash, and each tag under Tagged — shows its name with a count of cards in that item. This is the total card count for the sub-item, not a due-today count.

How selection shapes the Playlist

Think of the deck browser as the first stage of filtering and the Playlist’s filter button as the second stage. Whatever you pick in the deck browser decides which cards the Playlist starts with; the Playlist filter then sorts or narrows that set further.

In every case, the Playlist filter you’ve picked (Study Queue, Seen, New, Weakest, Cram, Manual Order, Starred) is then applied on top of that scope. So selecting a folder and choosing the New filter shows only the new cards in that folder; selecting a tag and choosing Weakest shows your weakest cards with that tag; and so on.

The one thing that doesn’t carry over to sub-items is the daily cap. Sub-items show all matching cards with no cap and no +/− controls — so they’re the right pick when you want to drill more deeply than the daily queue allows.

Folders

Folders are how you sub-organize a deck. They appear under their deck between Unfiled and Trash, can be nested, and can be reordered.

Creating a folder

Moving cards into a folder

Nesting and reordering

Folders can be nested to any depth. Drag a folder in the Deck Browser to either reorder it among its siblings or drop it onto another folder to make it a child.

Renaming and deleting

Use the context menu on a folder to rename or delete it. Deleting a folder moves it (and its contents) to the deck’s Trash, not straight to oblivion — to permanently remove it you have to empty the Trash.

Moving a folder to a different deck

Folders aren’t truly portable between decks — they belong to their deck. But you can produce the same effect by moving (or copying) a folder across decks:

Reordering decks

Decks can be reordered by drag-and-drop at the top level of the Deck Browser, on both Mac and iOS. The order is purely manual — there’s no alphabetical-sort option — and newly created decks always appear at the bottom.

Decks can’t be dragged into folders, since folders live inside a deck, not the other way around.

Context menu actions

Right-click on Mac, long-press on iOS. The items available depend on what you’re clicking.

Deck row

Folder row

The iOS Move to… and Copy to… items are what you use instead of drag-and-drop to relocate or duplicate a folder across decks (covered above in Moving a folder to a different deck).

Unfiled row

Trash row

Tagged and per-tag rows

The Tagged header has no context menu. Individual tag rows are likewise inert as far as context-menu actions go — they’re for selection only.

Card row (in the Playlist)

The Trash

Each deck has its own Trash, shown as the last fixed row under the deck (after Unfiled and any folders). Nothing is permanently deleted until you empty it, and the Trash syncs across your devices along with everything else in your library.

What ends up in the Trash

Cards that already lived inside a folder when the folder was trashed stay inside that folder; they don’t get hoisted out into the deck’s top-level trashed-cards list.

Browsing the Trash

Restoring

Permanently deleting

The blue indicator

The small blue dot on a deck row is controlled by two settings working together: a per-deck opt-in and an app-wide rule for when to actually show it. Both settings sync across your devices.

Per-deck: opt this deck in

Each deck has a Show indicator on this deck preference, found in the deck’s settings. It’s on by default. Turn it off for a deck you don’t want signaling for at all — that deck will never show the blue indicator, regardless of the app-wide rule.

App-wide: when to show it

In General settings, the Deck indicator option picks the rule that decides when an opted-in deck lights up:

Pick whichever matches how you think about “this deck needs attention.” For most people the default — Study Queue available — lines up with the daily flow of the app.