Hey there! First: thanks for the great product, use it regularly, absolutely happy user! )
Wondering though: there is an option while importing cards from file “Update existing notes when first field matches”. It updates the card with the new notes from the file. Ok. But what about an option to remove existing notes if no matches found in the file?
My case is that I regularly update a single deck with new items / new notes, but sometimes want to remove sth from the deck.
Just to think: whether it is a good idea or not? Is there a workaround exists for this maybe?
Hi, creator of Brain Brew here. You are correct, deleting notes is not currently supported by either Brain Brew or CrowdAnki. Brain Brew relies on CrowdAnki for all interaction with Anki itself, so it will have to be implemented there first. Though it is on the development path, and I hope to make this easier for users.
Out of curiosity what is the situation you would want? Delete all notes which are:
In the anki deck imported into, but not in the import file itself.
Anywhere in your anki collection, but not in the import file
I am in the final stages of a PR for CrowdAnki which may give you a usable workaround though: https://github.com/Stvad/CrowdAnki/pull/72 The new Import Window shown here will give users the option to tag all imported cards with whatever you wish. In this way you could add a tag “ImportedJune2020” or some such, then filter for all cards in your specific deck without that tag and delete those, then delete the tag. A small hassle, but at least it would work!
As Addons_zz suggested feel free to open an Issue in the Brain Brew Github with a suggestion like this anytime you can see the progress and make requests over on my fledgling Patreon
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