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Reading: Can I protect my own edits when subscribing to the AnKing Step Deck?

Welcome to Anki and AnkiHub!

You’re right to think about this early—how you edit cards matters when you’re syncing with a shared deck like the MCAT AnKing deck.

1. How AnkiHub handles your edits

AnkiHub uses protected fields so that your personal notes aren’t overwritten when you sync updates from the shared deck.

For the AnKing-style decks, AnkiHub automatically protects fields like:

  • Lecture Notes
  • Missed Questions
  • Pathoma
  • Boards and Beyond
  • First Aid
  • Additional Resources
  • Physeo

Anything you add or change in those fields will stay yours even after syncing.

By default it does NOT protect:

  • Text
  • Extra
  • Sketchy
  • Pixorize

Changes you make in unprotected fields can be overwritten if the deck author changes that same field.

2. What you should do in practice

  1. Put your personal notes in protected fields.
    For example, add your own explanations, mnemonics, and lecture content into Lecture Notes or Missed Questions, not into Text/Extra.

  2. Avoid heavy editing of “Text” and “Extra” if you want to benefit from future updates (bug fixes, better wording, etc.).

  3. Adjust what’s protected if needed
    You can customize which fields are protected by following this tutorial:
    → How to manage protected fields (embedded in this FAQ):
    Can I protect my own edits when subscribing to the AnKing Step Deck?

    And more details here:
    Protecting fields and tags

3. If you tell me how you like to edit

For example: “I want to add my own explanation under the answer” or “I want to add MCAT-specific notes,” I can suggest exactly which fields in your MCAT AnKing deck to use so they’re safe with AnkiHub syncing.