# Organizing child decks within a parent deck

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/organizing-child-decks-within-a-parent-deck/16259>\
**Category:** Shared Decks\
**Created:** [December 30, 2021, 7:00am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/organizing-child-decks-within-a-parent-deck/16259 "2021-12-30T07:00:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![nkviswan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@nkviswan](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/nkviswan)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 7:00am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/organizing-child-decks-within-a-parent-deck/16259/1 "2021-12-30T07:00:10Z")

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Hello!

I am trying to organize my decks on Anki so that all the cards that I have on there are organized into one parent deck instead of organized into subdecks. I specifically uploaded my card decks from Quizlet into Anki, but I am not sure how to put them into one deck so that all the cards are randomized. Whenever I click on the parent deck to see new cards, I get the first ones of the first child deck, then it continues based on whichever subdeck is next.

For example, if I click on “MCAT Quizlet: nkviswan”, it will start with Chapter 10: Social Thinking and go through all the cards, then will continue through the rest of the cards. Once all those cards are through, it will go into “Chapter 11: social structure and demographics” and so forth. Is there a way to randomize these cards so that they’re all jumbled into one deck that I can click on and see cards from any topic within the parent deck? Or is there a way to put/upload all the cards I make into a parent deck that will randomize it for me?

 ![Screen Shot 2021-12-29 at 10.54.28 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/0/04edb035aee3228c07f548e998168eb90f4318d4.jpeg)

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/abdo/32/654_2.png) [@abdo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/abdo)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/organizing-child-decks-within-a-parent-deck/16259/2 "2021-12-30T13:27:12Z")

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You can try the new V3 scheduler, which supports this. See [The 2021 scheduler - Frequently Asked Questions](https://faqs.ankiweb.net/the-2021-scheduler.html)

Another option is to use [filtered decks](https://docs.ankiweb.net/filtered-decks.html).

If you always study from the parent deck, you may want to consider using tags instead of subdecks to organize your notes into categories. See [Adding/Editing - Anki Manual](https://docs.ankiweb.net/editing.html#organizing-content)