Happy new year. I’m looking to duplicate a batch of Anki cards that I use. I’ve been using the Ultimate Birds deck to learn birds in my country using their English names but I now want to make use of the same cards in my country’s language. I’ve looked at other threads about duplicating cards but because these cards have a lot of media & fields, the following 2 solutions aren’t ideal:
- Exporting as .txt file and re-importing (fields & media don’t map correctly)
- Individually duplicating cards (messy and not ideal for hundreds of cards)
The cards already contain the species names in many languages but, to my understanding, you can only use 1 language at a time (done by editing the card template). I’d like to have 1 deck for English and another for my country’s but haven’t found a way of importing so the cards are identical except for the species’ language.
Any tips? Thanks in advance.
Well according to the addon page you linked:
Important: This deck is initially meant for online use. If you download the deck you will be able to see media as long as you are online.
This tells me that the media is pulled from the internet (which means you don’t have your media locally, the fields contain a reference to the source instead).
Which means export as txt and import should work fine. What exactly is the problem here for you?
Make sure you understand the difference between notes and cards – Getting Started - Anki Manual .
If each note already contains the text in the correct language – it sounds like you just need to add another card type to your note type, so that each note will generate a 2nd card with that text instead. You can set that 2nd card to be created in a separate deck to keep the English and other-language cards separate. Card Templates - Anki Manual
Adding a new card type did the trick easily. I’ve built and tweaked note types in the past but didn’t realize you could generate an additional card type after a note had already been created. Thanks!
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