Cards From Different Notes Have Same Due Number

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I’m running into an issue where I have cards from different notes that share the same due number. Sometimes even different note types get grouped together.

This screenshot is what I see – I separated the different notes with red lines, and circled in yellow instances where you can see different notes have the same due number:

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This happened after I used the reposition feature to force some cards I had already created into positions 0, 1, 2, and 3 (i.e., to guarantee they’ll be at the start of the deck). It looks like the notes I added after doing this are the ones affected by this (older ones do not share due numbers). So I’m guessing the culprit is that somehow?

I do also have AnkiMobile, but I haven’t touched it since creating the deck, so I don’t think it’s an issue of syncing across devices. I have tried syncing manually and checking database, but it didn’t seem to fix the issue.

I’m on version ⁨24.06.3.

Any advice? Thanks!

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This isn’t really a problem. It’s perfectly fine for multiple cards and notes to have the same position in the New-queue.

Yes, it might have started after a Reposition, but now the queue is just a little out of sorts. You can leave them where they are, or you can fix them pretty easily. (Actually, unless you have 1.3million cards, it’s a good idea to fix them, because you don’t need New-queue numbers that high.)

  1. Search for is:new – you can do all of your cards, or deck-by-deck, it’s up to you.
  2. Sort by the Due column and select all.
  3. Cards > Reposition – start 0 and step 1 is fine – uncheck both boxes.
  4. If you want to repeat that for other groups of cards, you can.
  5. Once you have everything adjusted to more reasonable New-queue positions – Tools > Check Database.
  6. [If you open the Reposition box again, you’ll see the queue-bottom has adjusted.]
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Sounds good – I’ll look into this once I finish adding all my notes to my deck.

Just to clarify – are queue numbers on a per-deck basis, or an across-all-my-Anki-decks basis?

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Both – in a way. They only matter relative to each other for cards you are introducing under the same parent deck. But when you add a new note anywhere in your collection, Anki will increase to the next queue number (assuming you have your New card insertion order set to Sequential).