I think what I want to do is simple but I’‘m struggling.
I’m learning a language. I have a note type for vocabulary that has a lot of fields like article, participle, etymology, translation, image, etc.
Then I have a bunch of card types: translations in both directions, construction of various tenses, article, plural, etc.
Every day I do a couple hundred cards. I love that Anki tells me which ones to do. Yay Anki!
What’s annoying is that it takes a second to figure out what kind of card I’m looking at. I see a word in my target language, does this card want a definition or a conjugation? It says what it wants right there on the card, so it’s not hard to figure out, but it would be easier if my couple hundred cards for the day were sorted, so I could do all the article ones and then all the translation ones and then all the conjugation ones, for example.
The best solution I found in a couple days of poking around on forums about it was to create subdecks for each card type and then tell the deck to sort by the subdecks. Seems like a lot, but ok, so I did that. But then adding new cards was hard because any new note made a bunch of cards that each had to be put into the subdecks basically by hand. I wanted new cards that got generated to automatically show up in the right order in my reviewing. The card type info is already there, so I’m not adding any new info when I sort.
So then I thought maybe filtered sub-decks would be better, so I set up the subdecks as filtered decks, but that’s doing weird things like un-filtering the cards as soon as I review them… it really seems like this isn’t what filtered decks are for.
What I’m trying to do seems very simple: I just want to do my daily reviewing in a sorted-by-card-type order.
What’s the best way to do that?