Is there any way to organize my cards hierarchically like in RemNote? (please, don't say hierarchical tags)

Title should be enough, thanks.

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Might be helpful for some people if you explain what happens in RemNote?

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In RemNote you can freely (drag and drop) reorganize you cards, this is particularly useful for managing complex subjects and seeing how different pieces of information connect in new ways over time.
While this is possible in Anki through sorting by numbers (creating a field only for numbering), it’s not feasible cause if you need to renumber one card, you have to renumber all the cards below.
Obsidian2Anki is close, but requires a great deal of maintenance.

Maybe this addon would help?
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/544982740

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Thanks, but I don’t want to reposition new cards.
I wanted a way to organize all my cards in a coherent structure (and be able to make changes to that structure) without having to number my cards or use Notion to organize.

Ah, right, I misunderstood. Then, have you tried Note Linker? It’s also inspired by Obsidian. It probably hasthe same problem of needing a lot of maintenance. I figure the solution to your problem is a custom version of Note Linker or Obsidian2Anki that fulfills your use-case.

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Note Linker is close, but as you said it requires lots of maintenance.
Personally, I think drag and drop for organizing cards should be a native feature in Anki.
It’s like Piotr Woźniak refusal to modernize SuperMemo because pro users, but maybe the creators can see something with their sharingans that I can’t.

Note Linker is perhaps only lacking a speedier UI for making those note id links. The author is active, so try contacting them with your idea?

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Sure, why not.
But these things rarely work out.

Part of your flow involves more than just having flashcards in bundles, so Anki is not a good fit for your purpose as it cannot offer more than that.

To my knowledge, Supermemo is the only software I know that allows drag&drop to organize flashcards (among many other things). And as you mentioned, it suffers from old age.

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In theory, I think you could avoid having to renumber other cards by using decimals.

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SuperMemo does, ironically, allow for drag and drop, while missing almost every other important modern feature {free cloud syncing, an app todo flashcards on the train, a functional interface, support outside windows, etc…}
Here is the godfather himself using this feature:

SuperMemo is not the only one though that allows drag and drop, RemNote does too.

Renumbering with gaps or decimals does make it possible, but you have to waste time fighting the software, tools should work for you, not the other way around, in my opinion.
Also, this is great for numbering cards forward, but what if you need to put a card before your {0}?

Do not start numbering from 0 so that there is a margin in case of anything.

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I meant the only other app I know.
Ironically this feature is kind of unneeded in Supermemo. You will use concept hooks instead.

I struggled with card organization in Anki for a long, long time. I’ve searched and tried various methods with poor results.

I recently decided to move to Remnote.

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