Anki Subdivisions

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My Anking Step deck has stopped dividing the topics into subdecks on the browse tab. They are all just in one deck together not able to be separated. Can someone please help? Thanks!

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I’ll help you with this issue regarding your AnKing Step deck and its subdivision problem. Let me search for relevant information first to provide you with a good answer.

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AnKing Step Deck Subdivision Issue

Thanks for your question about your AnKing Step deck. I understand that you’re having issues with the subdeck organization in the Browse tab.

What’s Happening

Based on the AnkiHub documentation, this is actually expected behavior with the AnKing V12 deck on AnkiHub. The AnKing Step Deck intentionally doesn’t use the traditional subdeck structure.

Explanation

According to the official FAQ:

When AnkiHub was initially released, it did not have subdeck support. We have not added it to the AnKing deck because of how complex it is.

We did, however, add a #AK_Original_Decks tag that contains all the original subdecks.

The AnKing team has chosen to use tags for organization instead of subdecks because:

One card can have many tags, but can only belong to one deck. Many of the cards in this deck are relevant for multiple topics, so we have used tags for the primary organization.

Solution

You can still organize and filter your cards by using the tag system:

  1. Go to the Browse tab in Anki
  2. Look at the left-hand panel and click on “Tags”
  3. You’ll find the main tag hierarchies: #AK_Step1_V12, #AK_Step2_V12, and #AK_Step3_V12
  4. Under the #AK_Original_Decks tag, you’ll find all the original subdeck organization

This tag-based organization provides more flexibility since one card can have multiple tags, whereas it could only belong to a single subdeck in the traditional system.

If you’d like to see screenshots of the tag hierarchy, they’re available in the FAQ post linked above.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you need any further clarification.

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Hello,

I would be happy to help. :slight_smile:

At least on AnkiHub, the Step deck does not have subdecks by default, FWIW. Previous versions of the Step deck, pre-AnkiHub, did have subdecks though the current version hasn’t had them for a few years now

But, there are two basic approaches:

  • If you previously had subdecks in your collection and you would like to restore your collection to that format you can restore from a backup: How to Restore From Backup

  • If you don’t have subdecks and would like to have them, this tutorial can walk you through how to make them: How to Create Subdecks

Please let me know if that answers your question, and if there’s anything else I can help with. :slight_smile: