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> They showed me the Chinese characters and asked me what the English translation is. I was incredulous about how many wrong decks there are and that I could not find good decks.

You can edit the structure of the card templates so they're the 'right way around' for you:

https://docs.ankiweb.net/getting-started.html#card-types

zelphirkalt 3 days ago [ - ]

Is this available on the mobile app? A template editor?

My issue is, that I also don't know where to find the functionality for editing the template. I also cannot find it under deck "Options" in the desktop app. There is sooo much in the UI, that I think it is possible, that I am simply overlooking it somewhere. The docs you linked don't tell me where to find that. No screenshots of any UI are visible. Even now, after you telling the I need to edit templates, I still cannot find the functionality in the UI. I simply don't see it.

My feedback at this point would be to make this something, that is easily discoverable for the user, or add screenshots of how to get there to the docs and have keywords in the docs, that will ensure, that when I search for how to invert a deck, I will most likely find that page of the docs.

david_allison 3 days ago [ - ]

It's available on AnkiDroid: Main menu -> Manage note types.

zelphirkalt 3 days ago [ - ]

And on desktop? When i go to:

    Menu bar -> "Tools" -> "Manage Note Types" -> select a deck -> "Options" (in the side bar)

I only see some latex code for header and footer:

    \documentclass[12pt]{article}
    \special{papersize=3in,5in}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage{amssymb,amsmath}
    \pagestyle{empty}
    \setlength{\parindent}{0in}
    \begin{document}

I assume those are header and footer of a card when it is displayed? But this does not include translation direction.

And why is it called "Note Type"? How does this concept relate to "Cards" or "Templates"?

Can you see, why one would have problems finding the correct setting?

EDIT: Now I found it under:

    Menu bar -> "Tools" -> "Manage Note Types" -> select a deck -> "Cards" (in the side bar)

There I would actually expect some list of the cards, not a template editing. It seems rather unintuitive to me. The issues are:

(1) The user has to know where to find that.

(2) The user has to know, that there is no short way to get to editing the attributes of the word shown, but instead, that they need to edit a template.

(3) The user has to know, where they will find the function to edit a template. I claim a normal user will not suspect this option to be hidden under "Note Types". What even is a note? Starting to use Anki, I would look for words like "Card", "Flashcard", "Translation", "Direction", "reverse", "training options", etc., but not "Note Types". It is a weird naming.

(4) A user will have to discover, that they are not supposed to click "Options", but "Cards". But that this brings up the card options, and that that contains the template, instead of the templates being something entirely separate, loosely coupled.

It is hard to include so much functionality in one tool. I understand that. But personally, I would have had to wade through every single menu item, to find this functionality, and this also explains, why in the past I have not been able to find this at all.