I upgraded from AnKing v11 to AnKing v12 a few weeks ago. When I unsuspended some new cards a few days ago, I noticed that there was a difference between the “New” cards in my “Step 2” sub-deck and the overarching “AnKing” parent-deck (see attached screenshot).
I want to study the cards within the “Step 2” sub-deck (as they are clinical applications of the Step 1 material I am currently studying, so deleting or re-suspending the cards is not an option), but I do not want to treat it as a separate deck. All decks are using the same “Default” options setting.
How do I change it so that the “New” card total is entirely under the umbrella of the “AnKing” parent deck?
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If you don’t want to treat them as separate decks, having them isolated to distinct subdecks might not necessarily be the most ideal approach since that will, by definition, put them in separate sub(decks) and Anki is likely to potentially treat them differently as a result.
From there, if the only new cards are coming from the Step2 subdeck, then the parent Anking deck will only present new cards from that subdeck. If, however, you have other decks that are introducing new cards that won’t be the case. Additionally, if the deck settings are different for the parent deck and subdecks that can also be the source of confusion. You might double-check your settings as, even though you mention that all decks are using the same preset, there are still options that can be specific to distinct subdecks even if they share a preset.
The other thing I would recommend looking at is the location of the cards. If you upgraded to v12 it’s possible that some new cards were added and are not physically located in your Step2 subdeck. Moving them to the subdeck in which you’d prefer to have them located may also help with this issue.
Let me know if all of that makes sense, if it helped answer your question, and if there is anything else with which I can be of help.
I did not create the sud-decks, they were a part of the v11 that I originally downloaded. I have new cards coming from both the AnKing parent deck and the Step2 sub-deck (see attached screenshot).
What is confusing is that the Step1 new cards are being pulled into the AnKing new card total, but not the Step2 new cards. Additionally, the due cards in Step1 and Step2 do not add up to the total 97 in the AnKing row.
How do I check the location of the cards? I would prefer to operate under one deck where I am able to study all of the cards I have unsuspended (I believe this is one of the major points of AnKing v12). I could always create a sub-deck later on by filtering for Step2 tagged cards.
In this case, your parent deck (AnKing) has a limit of 100 new cards.
Likely, because of your deck settings, that’s going to first pull 100 cards from Step 1. Only once those are exhausted will it start pulling from decks further down the list.
There are a few things you can do:
If you don’t want subdecks you can move the cards into a single deck and just delete the subdecks. There’s no reason you have to have them. Subdeck organization is 100% a personal preference thing. Some people like them, some people don’t use them at all. It’s entirely up to you.
In order to check the location of a card there are a few ways, depending on how you want to go about it. One simple way is, from the reviewer, as you’re viewing a card you might be learning or reviewing, just hit ‘b’ and it will bring that card up in the browser window for you.
In that browser window is a column labeled ‘Deck’ that will give you information as to the location of any given card:
The other portion you mentioned, about the review numbers not adding up, is likely to be the same cause (you likely have some cards that are in the Anking deck but are not specifically located in either of your subdecks).
Please let me know if that’s helpful, what your specific goals are, and anything else I can do and I’m happy to help sort this out so you can get where you want to be.
Yep, you can move cards wherever and however you like. Subdeck organization, including card location, is 100% personal preference. You can move them all into a single deck if that’s what you’d prefer.
Since you’re not duplicating cards, there’s no risk of having duplicates.
Card location will have no effect on progress or streak, those are handled globally by Anki (I’m also protective of my streak, lol. ).
Am I able to move all of the cards into my already created “AnKing” deck?
If I delete a sub-deck before moving the cards, what happens to the cards?
Side Note: Do you recommend deleting the v11 cards? (Going to @Ahmed7 here since I know he has written a lot about deleting v11 cards and how to do that efficiently).
I used to be scared to delete them but I bit the bullet a year ago and I hardly ever see any duplicates and it lessens your card burden by a ton. It saves you more time in the long run!
When you deleted the v11 cards, how did you ensure you were not missing content? I have v11 cards unsuspended that I have been studying and I am not certain if the equivalent v12 card is also unsuspended (and in study circulation).
For this, I went back to what I tags I used to unsuspned cards and checked if any were updated.
So if I used BNB, SketchyMicro, SketchyPharm, and FA tags. I would go back to for example BNB Cardiology tag and check what I did not unsuspend.
So before v11, I unsuspended all of the cardiology BNB cards. After upgrading to v12, I would check back and see 4 new cards for example in that tag, I would unsuspend those and move on. That covers most of it
