# About position of new cards

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**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 27, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/about-position-of-new-cards/64670 "2025-07-27T06:26:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![KerryStevant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e495f1/32.png) [@KerryStevant](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/KerryStevant)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/about-position-of-new-cards/64670/1 "2025-07-27T06:26:28Z")

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I always position of card for sorting. In the past, position of cards is by the order of adding time. But recently, the position always duplicate, so I can’t sort it correctly by position anymore. Is there a problem or something? Can I manually change it?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/b/b/bbad5851a1f17a3862664fa207a638564f0d79c8.png)  
Sometime duplicate, sometime more. The duplicate is in different subdecks, so if the order within subdeck is correct, it’s not a problem. But recently, the order is not correct anymore.

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**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/about-position-of-new-cards/64670/4 "2025-07-27T06:58:37Z")

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1. Are these cards from notes you added yourself, or notes you imported?

2. Are these cards siblings of each other – made from the same note? Those will be assigned to the same Position # by default.

3. Have you run Tools \> Check Database lately?

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**Author:** ![KerryStevant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e495f1/32.png) [@KerryStevant](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/KerryStevant)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 7:05am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/about-position-of-new-cards/64670/5 "2025-07-27T07:05:32Z")

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> [@Danika\_Dakika](#):
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> Are these cards from notes you added yourself, or notes you imported?

1. All these card I added myself.
2. I don’t even know about cards siblings. They are very differrent.
3. I also don’t know about this.  
Anyway, I find that I can use sort by created time for my purpose. So I don’t need to use position for sorting anymore. Thanks for your time.

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**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/about-position-of-new-cards/64670/6 "2025-07-27T08:35:14Z")

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I’m glad you found a solution, but you’ll definitely want to learn about these basic concepts anyway.

> **[Getting Started - Anki Manual](https://docs.ankiweb.net/getting-started.html#key-concepts)**
>
> Anki's user manual. Anki is a flashcard program that makes learning easier.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/about-position-of-new-cards/64670/7 "2025-08-26T08:35:33Z")

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