I am a new user and mystified about duplicates. See “Browse” screenshot below. (Not sure if the screenshot worked, all I see below is a reference to date and time).
Essentially it’s just an Italian/English recognition card. No bells and whistles.
As you can see, each definition, for example the first instance , “altroche”, has 2 lines with card types Card1 and Card2. The Front and Back displays are identical. If I go Notes>Delete it deletes both. If I alter either Front or Back, the change shows up on both cards, which implies they are the one note.
Is this correct? Sorry if this seems naive but it’s a big program.
Those are 2 cards made from the same note, because you used the “Basic (and reversed card)” note type. You can learn about the difference between notes, note types, cards, and card types in the manual – Getting Started - Anki Manual .
Thanks Danika,
One more question.
I have about 1000 Italian words translated to English, but had them in a mixture of excel files because I was unsure what I was doing.
When I look at my Anki files generated from the excel files, I find i have only about 566 notes. So there are about 450-500 missing.
I am inclined to delete averything in Anki, and re-input, thereby getting the full 1000 words in one file.
Is there a way of doing this while keeping the New>Learing>Review data for the words I have been working on? It’s all a bit of a mess but now as I am starting to understand Anki I dont want to have to relearn words I already know.
I would appreciate any advice. Thanks.
No, if you “delete everything in Anki,” your review history and scheduling will be gone.
Since you’ve still got the files, you should first consider that your various word lists/files have a lot of duplicates. When you imported each file, Anki told you how many notes it imported. If some were skipped (e.g. for being duplicates), Anki also told you why.
Another approach is to re-import the file as an update – Text Files - Anki Manual . That will create any notes that need to be created, “update” the ones that don’t (which if you haven’t made other edits to the notes since importing, won’t be a problem), and give you a report about why anything was skipped.
