Can Anki introduce more new cards from one note field than from another field?

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Thanks in advance for your help! My notes have 6 different fields which combine in different ways to produce 3 different kinds of cards (I’ll call them A, B, and C). Right now, Anki introduces new cards note-by-note so that it introduces cards A, B, and C from Note 1, then introduces cards A, B, & C from Note 2, then introduces cards A, B, & C from Note 3 (ignoring the sibling-delay for the moment).

What I’d like Anki to do is to introduce a different number of type A, B, & C cards so that I can be learning, say, 20 new type A cards a day but only 5 new type C cards a day.

The reason I’d like to do this is my type A cards test my receptive listening of a Chinese word, type B tests my production of a word, and type C tests my recognition of the Chinese character. Given that type A cards are easier for me than type C cards, I am able to learn far more type A cards a day than type C. However, since they’re all produced from the same note, my type C progress is limiting how many type A cards I can learn.

I could split them all into separate decks, but that would mean tripling the number of cards I needed to make, so I’m looking for a way to keep the same notes but alter the relative number of kinds of cards produced from that note.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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It’s not possible to alter the number of cards that are generated aside from adding a flag to a field, but you can use the deck override feature to automatically have each card type placed into separate decks, which can be given separate limits.

https://docs.ankiweb.net/templates/intro.html?highlight=override#the-templates-screen

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Wonderful, that will get me what I need! The directions you provided seem to be for creating new cards; can deck override work for existing cards?

Edit: Is there a way I can auto-sort existing cards into the decks specified in the current deck-override settings? Your suggestion works perfectly for new cards, but now I need to sort existing cards according to the same deck override settings.

Thanks!

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For any existing cards, you can just select them in the browse screen, then use the change deck feature to move them to a different deck.