Nested Note Types

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Hi,

I am trying to add note fields and cards for verb participles in my Anki.

I have already defined note types, with fields and cards, for verbs and adjectives.

Participles grammatically behave as adjectives, with the same fields and cards as for an adjective. However, I want to associate the participle with its verb note.

Rather than recreating all the adjective fields and cards within the verb note, is there a way I can add the “adjective” note as a subset to the “verb” note definition? In other words, create a nested definition of note types?

This would significantly decrease the amount of work required to expand the verb note type.

Thanks for our advice.

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You might be able to accomplish something similar by using conditional fields to selectively enable/disable particular templates:

https://docs.ankiweb.net/templates/generation.html#selective-card-generation

That said, I’d recommend keeping things simple - an elaborate notetype is only useful if it’s actually buying you input efficiency or making things easier to remember.