I’ve been using Anki for a while now and it’s a pretty awesome application!
One thing that has been bugging me slightly is my notes are not purely identified by their “title”; more like a compound key consisting of the title and a description field. So I was wondering what is the best way for an extension to hook into the duplication detection logic on the import menu?
I’ve found extensions that can do this functionality on the database as-is but the time complexity of that approach is kind of off putting, I would rather be able to do it at import time.
Not clear to me what you mean by title and description here. Are you working with text or apkg files? The import process is not very customizable: Text Files - Anki Manual
I’m guessing what they mean is they have two fields, one for the overall category, one for the specific part. The issue they’re probably having is that they can’t find out easily if they happen to have duplicates where both fields are the same, rather than the current detection method being based on only one field.
Perhaps a solution could be exporting as a csv and then sorting/filtering?