ohh ok I got it reversed. I thought you wanted the order of the book but that is what you want to avoid. And your “good order” is the.. if I understand correctly, your own arbitrary order, which is not chronological nor structured according to books, but an order that you think makes the most logical sense. This is an uncommon request because usually when people want structure, subdecks and tags suffice. But for your case, having subdecks under each syndrome won’t cut it because your desired order is more specific than the “chunks B after chunks A” kind of granularity. It could be as specific as, “this card has to go after that card”. Did I get this right? At least that’s what I got from your replies, otherwise subdecks or filtered decks from tags should be enough.
I get the urge for structure but is there really an innate structure to information? Knowledge is rarely neatly linear. Usually the pattern that emerges from accumulated knowledge is a networked graph, not even a tree. There is a reason a syndrome is split into several books and revisited again and again. There are two downsides that I can think of with maintaining a linear order: 1) The more information you acquire, the more pieces you have to juggle. So maybe the more you learn, the harder it is and more time you’ll have to spend on thinking where each card should go, and time is quite precious for med students. 2) Your understanding of what makes an order “logical” also shifts the more you know.
So, I wouldn’t (and don’t know how) suggest workflows targeted at linearity. But I can recommend this add-on for order in general. Unfortunately it’s in Chinese but the idea is simple: Look at the 3rd screenshot on the add-on page.
- On the left is the “Concept Tags” panel. It displays the full hierarchical structure of all tags of the current card. For example if the currently displayed card is tagged with A::a and B::y::5, the left panel shows the full structure of tag A (including non-a branches like A::b, A::c,.. ) and tag B (so B::x, B::y, B::z,…)
- On the right is the “Descriptor Tags” panel. It displays all the other cards with the same tag (all cards with A::a + all cards with B::y::5). You can preview those cards on hover.
The tags in both panels can be double clicked to view corresponding cards in the card browser. Overall, this system helps you see associations between cards (what other cards share the same concept?), internalize structure (what are the parent/children/siblings of each of the concepts related to the current card?) and create filtered decks for a tag more easily (double-click tags).