How can you select the same notes from one profile in another profile?

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Is there a way besides the optional tags? Cost of subscribing multiple profiles is a concern.

Importing the cards has two drawbacks that I’m aware of:

  1. potentially overwriting note updates made since this deck was created about 2 years ago
  2. I can’t seem to select only the imported notes

I’ve tried getting this to work with GUIDs etc., but I can’t seem to figure it out.

Is there a way to look at a profile’s notes in a deck and select the same ones in another profile?

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I’m not sure I’m fully clear on what you’re wanting to accomplish. Is there a reason you’re splitting into multiple profiles? It’s generally not recommended to do so.

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Thanks for the reply. In practice it’s because I have a friend who selected certain Anking notes relevant to a class who then shared that deck with me. So I have them in a separate profile but don’t know how to select them within my own. Is this possible somehow? Or do I need to tag them in a new profile, create an optional tag deck out of them, and then subscribe to them via my personal profile?

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To the best of my knowledge the only way to do it would be to export the cards attached to that tag and then import them into your collection. There are a few ways to accomplish that, but in the broadest sense tag-sharing is most expediently solved otherwise via optional tag groups on Ankihub.

Beyond that, you can manually export those cards and then import them, but that carries with it the constraints you mentioned above about potentially overwriting cards.

Deck sharing, including tags, pre-Ankihub era was prone to lots of issues like this unfortunately.

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Thanks yeah I may have to bite the bullet and upload as an optional tag I guess. Can I do that myself and then subscribe to it, allowing me to only need to pay for one AnkiHub account?

Originally, I was thinking exporting as text and opening in excel might allow some kind of matching via similar characteristics, and then if the GUID or noteID (if it’s preserved, which it might not be) is associated with it, I could set up a big search for each ID with 'OR’s in between and select them that way, but I’m not sure how to find the correct labels within excel.

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Is this one of the former solutions you mentioned? I wonder if this would work https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/960563361

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That’s the same idea that I mentioned above, I believe. It exports a set number of cards based on a tag.

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If your goal is to import the notes into your main profile as new notes while ensuring they don’t overwrite existing notes, try this solution:

  1. Clone the AnKing notetype from Tools > Manage Notetypes as a new notetype.
  2. Use the Cross Profile Search and Import 2.0 add-on to select the notes from the other profile and set the “Map to Note Type” option to the cloned notetype.

Warning: untested.

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Ideally I’d just be able to identify which notes they are and then tag/flag them within my profile (not to import as new, which I imagine would mean I’d have 2 copies of the same note).
Oh, but this brings an idea to mind - would it be possible to do that, then identify duplicates somehow to identify the original cards within my profile?

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You export the notes from the other profile as text like this:
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Then import the file in your main profile:

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Make sure the Tags field is mapped correctly. You’ll need to map the first field in the notetype too but you can ignore other fields you don’t want to be overwritten. So at the end the first field and tags field will be overwritten with info from the other profile.

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Thanks - And then to identify which cards are imported, will they show up as added and/or modified on the date of import? Need a way to identify which cards they are is all

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You can add a unique tag to the “Tag updated notes” to identify modified notes.