Lolnotacop vs zanki pharm

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Not an ankihub question but please help.
I upgraded to v12 from v11.
I am doing pharm right now and I see cards from lolnotacop and zanki pharmacology when I look up certain topics.
Should i be doing both or are they duplicates and I can focus on one or the other. Thank you

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I see you’re asking about Lolnotacop vs. Zanki pharmacology decks. While this isn’t specifically an AnkiHub question, I can provide some general guidance.

First, let me search for any related discussions in our community that might help answer your question.

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Reading: ⭐️ Introduction to the AnKing Step Deck (V12)

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Reading: 🏷️ What do all the tags mean in the AnKing Step Deck?

I understand you’re looking for help with your Anki study plan for pharmacology. While this isn’t specifically an AnkiHub question, I can still offer some guidance based on the information in our community.

Lolnotacop vs Zanki Pharmacology

Looking at the AnKing Step Deck information, both Lolnotacop and Zanki Pharmacology were incorporated into the comprehensive AnKing deck. Here’s what you should know:

How they differ:

  • Zanki Pharmacology was based primarily on First Aid and Sketchy Pharm
  • Lolnotacop Pharm was created to fill in gaps that Zanki didn’t cover from Sketchy Pharm

What to do:

According to the AnKing wiki, most duplicates between BlueGalaxies (Zanki) and Lolnotacop have been resolved in the AnKing deck, with the better cards kept and duplicates deleted. However, in your V12 upgrade, you may still be seeing both.

For pharmacology specifically, I recommend:

  1. If you’re studying from Sketchy Pharm: Focus on the cards tagged with #SketchyPharm
  2. If you’re seeing duplicates: Look for cards tagged with !DELETE(Duplicate) - these can be safely deleted as they’ve been merged with better versions
  3. For efficiency: You might want to search for cards tagged with both #AK_Original_Decks::Zanki_Pharmacology AND #AK_Original_Decks::Lolnotacop to identify potential duplicates

The AnKing deck has tags called PharmExtras_(topic_covered_by_micro) for cards that cover pharm principles already addressed in Sketchy Micro. You might want to focus on one or the other for efficiency.

If you’re studying for USMLE, you could also prioritize cards tagged with ^HighYield to focus your studies on the most important content.

Hope this helps with your pharmacology studies!

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Hello,

I would be happy to help. :slight_smile:

It’s hard to be able to say much about the cards in your collection, since from the sound of it you may have a mixture of cards from pre-v12 as well as v12.

But, from the image you’ve shared, it also looks like you have some subdecks that were preserved or inherited from earlier collection. So the short version is that, just because a card is currently located in the Lolnotacop subdeck, doesn’t tell you much about whether or not that card is from Lolnotacop, and/or whether or not it has been updated by AnkiHub since.

The long and short of it is that I wouldn’t be making any judgements about whether or not you should study a given card, or cards, based on what subdeck it happens to be located in.

If you’re using the updated v12 tags, you’re doing all of the cards that you should be using, and subdeck location is a bit of a muddled game that can be unreliable and about which I won’t have much insight, I’m sorry to say, owing to what seems likely to be at least some inherited history to your local collection.

TL; DR: if it shows up in v12 tags, you’ll want to study it (subdeck location is not likely to be relevant either way).

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

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Sorry but my question is still not answered clearly. I understand that my anki arrangement is different due to having v11 before upgrading and when i UPGRADED subdeck arrangements stayed the same.
For a given topic on pharm i get both cards from lolnotacop and zanki pharm, are these cards just duplicates or they are unique cards and should all be looked at? my understanding is that when you upgrade duplicate cards are removed and I should be looking at both zanki pharm and lolnotacop.
But I want to confirm because i don’t want to just redo duplicate cards.
is lolnotacop drugs + zanki pharm the comprehensive collection for drugs on anking
or zankipharm is comprehensive and no need to look at lolnotacop drugs?

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Perhaps you can clarify for me. :slight_smile:

I’ll do my best below:

That is correct. Your subdeck arrangements will stay the same, as well as card location.

However, additionally, new cards may be parked in pre-existing decks, and/or existing cards may be overwritten and updated in-place, owing to quirks with how Anki handles card location and lineage-handling.

Thus, card location will not be an indicator of which deck it is to which a deck belongs.

Cards may be in your lolnotacop subdeck and:

  • Never have belonged to that deck at all, and be entirely new.
  • Once have belonged to that deck and have since been updated or overwritten.
  • Now belong to the AnKing deck, though have originated from lolnotacop.
  • Be an original, unchanged, card from lolnotacop (though the image you shared is using v12 tags, so these cards would not come up in the search you used).

Thus, in the image you shared, by definition none of those cards are unchanged lolnotacop cards. They all belong, at least currently, to the AnKing deck.

The cards in the image you shared appear to be tagged by v12, thus they are in the AnKing deck.

Because the AnKing deck was built on, and comprised of, multiple other decks it’s hard to delineate the origin of each individual card and it may be that, once upon a time, they originated in other decks but, being tagged by v12, it is safe to say that those cards are currently from the AnKing Step deck.

TL; DR: These cards may have differing original origins, once upon a time, but they are all, at this point in time, AnKing cards by definition.

That is not the case. Cards are not removed when you add additional decks to your collection.

Separately, if you are concerned about having duplicates you can flag these by going to the Browse screen, and from the top toolbar: Notes - Find Duplicates

You could be looking at those subdecks if they contain cards that you want, I suppose. But that will depend on what you have in those subdecks, and I can’t offer much insight there as it depends on a lot of factors unique to your collection history.

The AnKing deck does not use subdecks, and so any card location will be unique to your history. Both Zanki and lolnotacop are both sufficiently outdated that I would not rely on them, specifically, for most anything at this point.

Neither, really.

Each of the older decks is now many years out of date, and none of them would now be considered comprehensive as they have seen many thousands of updates in the time since.

If you have v12 (as it seems that you do), it would be recommended to simply use the v12 tags and ignore anything related to the organization or structure of those older decks.

In some cases, the tags from the older decks are preserved for posterity but they are long-since past the point of being recommended for use. In your case, you seem to have preserved the subdeck organization which is neither good nor bad, but up to your personal preference/s.

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

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