Hi - I want to try out the lightyear deck to see how it pairs with BnB but I have read of issues with it interfering with Anking notes and cards. Could anyone suggest how to best do this so I could use the lightyear and Anking decks together without messing anything up.
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Hello,
That might be a tough one, unfortunately. Because the AnKing deck was based, initially, on a few other decks they necessarily share a lineage. From there, the way that Anki recognizes cards has to do with unique note ID’s which are assigned to given notes.
The long and short answer is that cards that are from decks with a shared lineage will tend to overwrite each other, and this isn’t always feasible to sidestep (this is true of Zanki, Lightyear, lolnotacop, others).
I might point out that the original Lightyear deck is, I believe, several years old at this point and so you might expect the tagging to be fairly outdated. This is especially true as BnB has updated and changed their videos over time. I haven’t used that deck myself, as it’s a bit before my time, but I know it to be a bit older.
My 0.02 would be that, in most cases, there’s not a lot of yield to using two separate decks of that size simultaneously. This is doubly true if they’re likely to interfere with each other, and especially if one deck is considerably older than the other. Additionally, the BnB tagging in the AnKing deck is going to be far, far more updated as it has a dedicated tagging team and updates go out all the time (BnB has been updating their videos recently).
In theory you might be able to clone a deck and re-assign note ID’s, but that’s really just a hazard stab at a guess. I’ve not personally done anything like that and I’m not immediately aware of how one would do it, though I suppose in theory it’s not impossible.
Please let me know if that answers your question, and if there’s anything else I can help with. 
Hey,
Thanks for your detailed response! What are your thoughts on creating a separate profile to at least check it out? I could even try linking the 2nd profile with a different Ankiweb account. Could that be a solution? Or would it still interfere?
Thanks!
Depends on a few things:
If you have a separate profile, you’ll want to also have a separate AnkiWeb and/or AnkiHub accounts for that profile, otherwise your stuff can end up just cross-syncing. As long as you don’t mix-and-match multiple connections under the same AnkiWeb, or AnkiHub, account they will remain separate. If you do criss-cross it can create a hot mess, for all the obvious reasons.
For sure as long as you make sure not to overlap collections you can give it a shot. Worst-case scenario you can always make a backup first and, if anything does go south, you can restore from that backup no harm no foul
Thanks a lot! One follow up, when I make a new profile on Anki, how do I associate a separate Ankiweb profile with it? I don’t see that as an option.
You’ll first want to create a new AnkiWeb account, at https://ankiweb.net/, and then you can log in to that account from within Anki by going to the Preferences pane:
Anki - Preferences - Syncing:
Thank you!
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