Unique conditional replacement

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We have country, high point and low point fields.

We have country on the front that’s fine.

Then, we have high point on the front and we run into issues. High point isn’t always unique e.g. Everest (Nepal, China), and it’s far worse for low point (various seas). See List of elevation extremes by country - Wikipedia. Please may we have a unique conditional replacement? Basically rather than just having a condition for both empty and non-empty, there be a third condition that say is this field unique if so generate a card.

There are a lot more use cases. Basically any object that has partially unique property values suffers in the same way. Ideally, when making cards, you’d have one property on the front and recall all the others. You’d do this for each property, but you don’t want a card generated if the property value refers to multiple objects.

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I’m not sure I’ve understood it properly, but basically each note will have to check against all the oher notes from the same note type, like a duplicate check?

What would that mean for situations like, when you delete a previously created note? That feels complicated, and also, the duplicate checks don’t even work properly if you have a trailing whitespace (I face this issue everyday).

I feel like creating two seperate note types is simpler.

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Thanks for replying.

I think creating a new note type would just make things insanely complicated. I think the best current approach is to manually suspend the cards, you don’t want to show up. You just have to keep them suspended for ever.