Is there a way to search for notes that share a sort field?

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I have a normal note type and a cloze note type.
They both have the same sort field information in their sort fields.
Is there a way to search for notes that share the same sort field with another note?
For example

Sort Text
vestragon {{Cloze}} {{information}} {{in}} {{here}}
Sort Partic. Type Example sentence
vestragon vestreta C-fin (some example sentance)

Then the search would display these two notes because their sort fields match

I know that I can search for the word specifically but I want to get all notes that match in this way

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Try Sort:*

Front:*
finds notes that have a Front field, empty or not.
Searching - Anki Manual

Check the manual entry above if it doesn’t work

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Doesn’t seem to be be working.

I don’t want to search for notes that have a field called “sort”
I want all notes who’s sort fields’ values matches some other note’s value

As in Note1.sortField == someOtherNote2.sortField
As long as it matches at least 1 other note it appears in the search

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Still unsure on what you mean, what sort field suppose to mean, its mostly a placeholder option to display sorting options

Here are some add-ons that adds more sorting options or improve browse in some way

In any case, the section about searching might have what you are looking for

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If you mean more of a broad checking-for-duplicates – you can’t do it based on which field you have designated as the sort field, but you can do it based on any named-field that the notes have in common. Browsing - Anki Manual

A few things to note –

  • Who controls the names of the fields? You do! If those 2 note types don’t use the same name for that field, just change one of them to match the other. That can be a temporary change that you change back later, or a permanent change, if the name makes sense.
  • When you change the name of a field for a note type, all of its card templates automatically update to use that new field name. [Without a doubt, this is my very favorite sensible, and yet hidden, feature in Anki!]
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I thought to change my fields so that their sort field names match but I not sure how to search for all duplicates with a given field name

Basically like the automatic duplicate check but across note types instead of with-in the same note type

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Did you read the link?

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I’m very sorry. I thought it was a link to something else I already saw. tyvm

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