How to filter all new cards with a learned sibling?

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Hi, I sometimes filter some cards to learn them before their normal order in the deck. So, their siblings won’t show up before long time … is there a way to filter them (without using tags) in order to see them before the rest?

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Is there a reason why you don’t want to use tags to do it? Because yes, there’s a way, but it does require using tags (or marked would work too, anything at the note level).

In broad strokes – you need find the cards that are not New, and then use their notes to show you any sibling cards that are still New.

  1. Search -is:new -is:suspended
  2. Select All > Add Tags > new-check [tags are assigned at the note level, so all sibling cards will be tagged]
  3. Make sure your toggle is set to “Cards” view
  4. Search tag:new-check is:new -is:suspended [these are the New siblings that you haven’t studied yet]
  5. Select All > Add Tags > new-sibling [tags are assigned at the note level, so all sibling cards will be tagged]
  6. [Clean-up: delete new-check tag]

Now that you’ve found them, you can Reposition (Browsing - Anki Manual) them to the “front” of your New queue (on a note, this will only affect the New cards), or create a Filter/Custom deck (Filtered Decks - Anki Manual) to study them all at once.

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I didn’t want to use tag because I have to do those steps quite often. Well, thanks to your detailed answer, I now realize that’s not a big deal : I can have a filtered deck with this query : tag:new-check is:new -is:suspended and I would only have to repeat the steps 1 and 2 + refresh the filtered deck.

Should I understand that your answer implies that there is no other way? (in that case that will be my solution :slight_smile:)

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I can’t guarantee you there’s no other way, but this is how I’ve done it, and I’ve not been able to figure out anything else. But I think that’s a great modification if this is something you’ll need continually.

If this is a recurring problem for you, is there a reason why you don’t introduce the reverse cards in this same filtering process when you introduce their siblings?

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The reverse card goes through the same filtering process but it’s something like this: I learn 10 cards a day. Sometimes, I will filter like 10 notes one day and 10 more the day after, so I learned 10 “fronts” the first day, but their backs siblings will be mixed with the 20 new fronts and backs, and so on.

Today I tried your method and it’s quite convenient, thanks!

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