Back story
I have a basic Anki card which asks for a few symptoms of a psychological disorder. Those are according to the official diagnostics manuals. I know all the symptoms by heart, except for the duration of these symptoms. I tend to confuse it with other common durations, which is why this card is a leech now.
I thus decided to modify the card, so that I’ve got two seperate cards: Card A would ask about the symptoms I already know, Card B only asks about the duration.
All of my cards have an ID field which I use for updating my cards via .csv imports. I’d like to reuse my ID for the problematic, now leeched card, so that I only have to assign one new ID to a new card (instead of creating two new cards with new IDs, which are different from the leeched card ID).
This only makes sense, though, if the review history for this single card (which currently uses the ID I’d like to recycle) would be null and void.
Possible solutions I considered
I know that the manual is mentioning resetting cards, see Studying - Anki Manual. It states:
The “Reset repetition and lapse count” option, if enabled, will set the review and failure counters for the card back to zero. It does not remove the review history that is shown at the bottom of the card info screen.
Maybe I fundamentally misunderstand this, but since I do not want the FSRS scheduling to be affected by the old history (because I essentially create a new card just reusing an old ID), I believe this option is not going to help.
It also states
The “Restore original position” option allows you to reset the card back to its original position when you reset it.
I have no clue what any of this means. I found Change Feature Name: Restore original position, and if I understand this correctly, then this option only affects the order in which this reset card is placed among my already existing new cards; which is something I don’t really care about.
I also couldn’t find a FAQ or similar dealing with this usecase.
Question
Given that I want to recycle my card with a certain ID, creating essentially a new card from it, how can I purge all the things that would affect scheduling of only this single card, without affecting other cards?
Thank you for your time and answers!