Hello 
I want to import a deck that contains cards, which are already in another deck. So they are not imported. I would like them to be in both decks though. Is there any way to have the same cards in multiple decks, including the study progress?
Sorry if thats a stupid question, but I’ve really been trying to find a way but didn’t find any.
No, it is not possible, you may use tags then make filtered decks with the selected tags
Decks are designed to divide your content up into broad categories that you wish to study separately, such as English, Geography, and so on. You may be tempted to create lots of little decks to keep your content organized, such as “my geography book chapter 1”, or “food verbs”, but this is not recommended, for the following reasons:
- Lots of little decks may mean you end up seeing cards in a recognizable order. On older scheduler versions, new cards can only be introduced in deck order. And if you were planning to click on each deck in turn (which is slow), you will end up seeing all the “chapter 1” or “food verb” reviews together. This makes it easier to answer the cards, as you can guess them from the context, which leads to weaker memories. When you need to recall the word or phrase outside Anki, you won’t always have the luxury of being shown related content first!
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Instead of creating lots of little decks, it’s a better idea to use tags and/or fields to classify your content. Tags are a useful way to boost search results, find specific content, and keep your collection organized. There are many ways of using tags and flags effectively, and thinking in advance about how you want to use them will help you decide what will work best for you.
Some people prefer using decks and subdecks to keep their cards organized, but using tags have a big advantage over decks for that: you can add several tags to a single note, but a single card can only belong to one deck, which makes tags a more powerful and flexible categorization system than decks in most cases. You can also organize tags in trees in the same way as you can do for decks.
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When you study a regular deck in Anki, only a limited number of cards are shown: the cards Anki thinks you are about to forget, and a daily limit of new cards. This is generally useful, as it ensures you don’t spend more time studying than necessary. But sometimes it can be useful to step outside of these normal limits, such as when you need to review for a test, focus on particular material, and so on. To make this possible, Anki provides a different type of deck called a “filtered deck”.
Filtered decks offer a lot of possibilities. They can be used for previewing cards, cramming cards before a test, studying particular tags, catching up on a backlog with a particular sort order, reviewing ahead of schedule, going over the day’s failed cards, and more.
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Since that’s not possible – perhaps you can say more about why you want to do that? We might be able to get you closer to your actual goal in a better way.
Thank you both for your answers!
I’m aware of the superiority of tags in this regard, but unfortunately, the decks I wanna import come in subdecks without tags. When I want to study one deck, I wanna study all the cards belonging to it. Thats why it was nice to have one card in multiple decks.
Anyway, your answers gave me an idea; I’ll tag all the subdecks in the old deck with according tags, create a second account for the new deck, where I can import all cards, then tag them too and then put them all together in my original account. Let’s see if that works.
Of course then still the subdeck structure will be not perfect, but at least everything is grouped rightly another way.
If you have any suggestions or better ideas, I’ld appreciate them
Update: So that worked, but took longer than I thought and was kind of annoying. So if anybody has a better workaround, that’ld be much appreciated. Also, since many people use subdecks the way tags are intended to use, maybe it would be an idea to enable the usage of cards in multiple decks. I don’t know much about programming or the architecture of Anki, but that shouldn’t be impossible, or is it?
With this add-on, it’s now possible to copy the card’s revision history.
Go to the Panel (Browser).
Select the cards with Ctrl.
Right-click on the cards → Duplicate Selected Cards.
Choose the destination deck and check “Copy History”.
Note: For future copies, you can use the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Z to go faster.
