Integrating School Curriculum Deck with AnKing Step Deck

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Hi everyone, Iā€™m an incoming M1 this year and have been trying to set up my Anki system to combine our schoolā€™s Foundations 1 deck with the AnKing Step Deck v12 (most recent I believe) via AnkiHub. Iā€™ve read thorugh forum posts + guides but Iā€™m now trying to clean up duplicate content and optimize my setup going forward.

Hereā€™s what Iā€™ve done so far:

  • Imported the Foundations 1.apkg, which was built off AnKing v11
  • Then I installed AnKing v12 deck using AnkiHub, which imported into the same deck (Foundations 1)? I donā€™t know why
  • I correctly configured Special Fields (Import Tags only) before I imported Foundations.
  • I used the Find Duplicates tool and flagged ~ 30 pairs of exact cloze duplicates using the ā€œTextā€ filter, sifted through them and flagged the Foundations (older) cards with a red flag.

Hereā€™s where I could use help:

Is there a way to more efficiently identify ā€œfunctionalā€ duplicates (i.e. slightly different wording but same concept) accross the Foundations v11 cards (around 18,000 cards) and AnKing v12 cards? I have a hard time believing the ~30 I found are the only functional duplicates.

Iā€™d like to eventually have my foundations deck updated with v12 material, keeping the school cirriculum tags so I can use filtered decks as I go through school next year, and avoid reviewing the same fact twice with different wording.

If anyone has any advanced workflow, filtering tricks, bulk-removal/tagging tips I would greatly appreciate it. I can also easily start from scratch if need be, I have the Foundations 1 file and can delete/sync from AnkiHub anytime.

Thanks so much in advance!

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Hello,

I would be happy to help. :slight_smile:

What most likely happened, and isnā€™t uncommon, is that you had/have some older cards in your collection that are from an older AnKing deck and/or one of the earlier decks that were originally incorporated into the AnKing deck.

What happens when this is the case is that Anki ā€˜seesā€™ that you have cards in your deck that share a lineage and it presumes that you want to park them in the same place as the others.

But, you can freely move them if you like. Just because they were parked there doesnā€™t mean that they have to stay there. In general, you can move cards around however you like. Neither Anki, nor AnkiHub, particularly ā€˜caresā€™ where a card is located in your collection, just so long as it is present somewhere in your collection.

Unfortunately there isnā€™t. Anki, for better or worse, doesnā€™t have a way to search for ā€˜sort-ofā€™ duplicates.

Aside from just noting them as you go, and/or flagging them yourself, suspending them, or searching them down by keyword the software itself just doesnā€™t have a ā€˜similarityā€™ search that would easy track down cards that are pretty similar (only those, really, that are identical).

Perils of having overlapping tags, ultimately, Iā€™m sorry to say.

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