# Is there a way to search for notes that share a sort field? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [February 3, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-notes-that-share-a-sort-field/55321 "2025-02-03T21:11:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RRomeroJr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@RRomeroJr](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/RRomeroJr)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-notes-that-share-a-sort-field/55321/1 "2025-02-03T21:11:04Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![NameLessGO](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/namelessgo/32/34298_2.png) [@NameLessGO](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/NameLessGO)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-notes-that-share-a-sort-field/55321/2 "2025-02-03T21:27:43Z")
Try `Sort:*` > `Front:*` > finds notes that have a Front field, empty or not. > [Searching - Anki Manual](https://docs.ankiweb.net/searching.html#limiting-to-a-field) Check the manual entry above if it doesn’t work ---
**Author:** ![RRomeroJr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@RRomeroJr](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/RRomeroJr)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-notes-that-share-a-sort-field/55321/3 "2025-02-03T21:38:48Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![NameLessGO](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/namelessgo/32/34298_2.png) [@NameLessGO](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/NameLessGO)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-notes-that-share-a-sort-field/55321/4 "2025-02-03T22:25:45Z")
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 - [Advanced Browser](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/874215009) - [BetterSearch](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1052724801) In any case, the section about [searching](https://docs.ankiweb.net/searching.html) might have what you are looking for ---
**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-notes-that-share-a-sort-field/55321/5 "2025-02-03T22:46:05Z")
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](https://docs.ankiweb.net/browsing.html#finding-duplicates) 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!]_ ---
**Author:** ![RRomeroJr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@RRomeroJr](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/RRomeroJr)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-notes-that-share-a-sort-field/55321/6 "2025-02-03T23:03:42Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-notes-that-share-a-sort-field/55321/7 "2025-02-04T01:54:02Z")
Did you read the link? ---
**Author:** ![RRomeroJr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@RRomeroJr](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/RRomeroJr)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-notes-that-share-a-sort-field/55321/8 "2025-02-04T21:10:22Z")
I’m very sorry. I thought it was a link to something else I already saw. tyvm ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-notes-that-share-a-sort-field/55321/9 "2025-03-06T21:10:54Z")
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