Trying to set up my anki and understand the new anking step deck

[dik11021111]

I used to have Zanki and have around 2800 cards learnt there. By subscribing to Anking now the cards have switched to this new big Anking deck. Is there a way I can put the new cards from Anking subscriptions in the Zanki step subdivisions? Also I need help in finding out what tags mean and how I can find and use them. It is a little unclear to me what suspend means as well.

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You’re on the right track getting set up with the AnKing Step Deck + AnkiHub. I’ll break this into your three questions:

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1. Keeping your old Zanki “steps” while using the new AnKing Step Deck

When you subscribe to the AnKing Step Deck on AnkiHub, the deck structure and tags of the shared deck are what matter most, not the local subdeck structure you used to have.

A few key points:

• The AnKing Step Deck is designed to be driven by tags, not lots of subdecks.
• You generally shouldn’t move cards out of the main AnKing deck into lots of small subdecks, because it can:
  • Break future updates from AnkiHub
  • Make scheduling/reviewing less efficient

If your old “Zanki step subdivisions” were just subdecks like:

• Zanki::Step 1::Cardio
• Zanki::Step 1::GI
  …then the AnKing Step Deck replaces that idea with tags (e.g. ::Cardio, ::GI, ::Renal, etc.).

Recommended approach:

• Keep all AnKing Step cards in the main AnKing deck (as they are after subscribing).
• Use tags to select which topic or resource to study, instead of subdecks.
• If you really want a similar structure, you can:
  1. Use a filtered deck based on tags (e.g. tag:AnKing::Step1::Cardio).
  2. Study from that filtered deck while keeping the original deck as the “home” deck.

For a full walkthrough on how the Step Deck is intended to be used, see:
How do I use the AnKing Step Deck?

If you tell me how your old Zanki “step subdivisions” were organized (names / subjects), I can suggest the equivalent tag strategy in AnKing.

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2. What tags are and how to find/use them

What is a tag?

A tag is a label attached to notes/cards, for example:

• AnKing::Step1::Cardio
• Sketchy::Micro
• #AK_Step1_v12::#Low/HighYield

Tags are used to:

• Select certain cards (e.g. only cardio)
• Unsuspend cards by topic
• Make filtered decks
• Prioritize “high yield” cards

From the forum:
What is the “High Yield” tag and how should I use it?

How to see and use tags in Anki

1. Browse window:

   • Click Browse in Anki.
   • Left side you’ll see a Tags section.
   • Expand it to see all tags in your collection (including the AnKing ones).

2. Filter by tag:

   • In the search bar of the Browser, type something like:
     • tag:AnKing::Step1::Cardio
   • This shows only those cards.

3. Unsuspending/Selecting by tag (for Step Deck use):
   There is a dedicated tutorial here (very relevant to what you want):
   Selecting/Unsuspending Cards by Tag

   It walks you through:

   • Selecting cards with certain tags
   • Unsuspending them correctly (so they start appearing for review)

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3. What “suspend” means

Suspend = temporarily turn a card off.

• A suspended card will not show up in your reviews or new cards, until you unsuspend it.
• In the Browser, suspended cards are usually yellow (depending on your theme).
• Why suspend?
  • Card is too detailed / low yield
  • You’re not ready for that topic yet
  • Duplicates or cards you don’t want to study

How to suspend/unsuspend:

1. Open Browse.
2. Select one or more cards.
3. Press s on your keyboard, or click the Suspend button.
   • If it was active → it becomes suspended.
   • If it was suspended → it becomes active again (unsuspended).

This is exactly what you’ll use when activating Step Deck material gradually by tag.

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Next steps

If you reply with:

• A screenshot or description of your old Zanki subdeck structure, and
• Whether you’re studying preclinical (Step 1 style) or something else

I can give you a concrete “do this, then this” plan for:

• Which AnKing Step tags to unsuspend
• How to mimic your old flow using tags + filtered decks instead of moving cards around.

[MarcosZan]

Hi,

I think the bot pretty much covered everything for you!

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Basically, the recommended setup for studying is to suspend all cards and then unsuspend only the tags you want to study right now. In some cases, if you want to study a specific topic or prepare for a test, you can create filtered decks.

Unfortunately, if you want to move cards from the AnKing Step Deck into subdecks, the only method is to select all cards from a specific tag and manually move them to a deck you created. Doing this for a few specific topics is fine, but it isn’t practical to do this for every topic because there are so many tags. It just isn’t possible to organize every single tag into a subdeck.

That is simply how Anki works. Since we cannot make a subdeck for every topic, we rely on the tag system.

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Here is a tutorial on how to study a specific tag by unsuspending cards: How to Get Started Studying

Here is a link to the Anki manual regarding decks and tags to help you understand the concept better: Adding/Editing - Anki Manual

You can also check out the AnKing Step Deck Wiki here: AnKing Step Deck Wiki.

Let me know if you need help with anything else.

[dik11021111]

I would realy appreciate if you give me a plan on how to mimic my old flow. It was based on the different medical concepts and specialties.

[AnkiHub_AI_bot]

Thanks for the screenshot—that helps a lot. You were basically using one “big” Step deck split into organ‑system subdecks. We’ll recreate that same feel in AnKing Step using tags + filtered decks, without breaking AnkiHub syncing.

Below is a concrete, click‑by‑click plan.

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Step 0 – Make sure AnKing Step Deck is “clean”

1. In Anki, go to Browse.
2. In the left sidebar, under Decks, click the AnKing Step Deck (or whatever the exact name is).
3. Press Ctrl+A / Cmd+A to select all cards.
4. Press s until the cards are suspended (yellow).
   • Goal: Everything in AnKing Step is suspended to start.

(If you’ve already done this following the tutorial Marcos linked, you can skip.)

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Step 1 – Understand your new “subdecks” = tags

Your old structure looked like:

• Zanki Cardiovascular
• Zanki GI
• Zanki Renal
• Zanki Neuro
• etc.

In the AnKing Step Deck, these are now represented by tags, e.g.:

• ::Cardio / ::Cardiology
• ::GI
• ::Renal
• ::Neuro
• ::Endocrine
• …

You don’t need to know the exact tag names right away; we’ll discover them in the Browser.

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Step 2 – Activate (unsuspend) one “specialty” at a time

Let’s say you want to start with Cardiovascular, like your old Zanki Cardiovascular deck.

1. Click Browse.
2. In the left sidebar, under Tags, expand the AnKing Step tags tree until you see cardio‑type tags
   (e.g. something like AnKing_Step::Cardio, ::Cardiology, etc.).
   • If unsure, you can search in the top bar:
     • Type: tag:cardio and see what appears.
3. Once you see the cardio tag you want:
   • Click the tag in the left sidebar → you’ll see only those cards.
4. Ctrl+A / Cmd+A to select all of those cards.
5. Press s to unsuspend them (they should turn not yellow).
6. Close the Browser.

Now, when you go back to the main Anki screen and click the AnKing Step Deck, the only new cards that will appear are “Cardio” cards, just like when you entered your old Zanki Cardiovascular subdeck.

Repeat the same process later for:

• GI (tag:GI / tag:Gastro…)
• Renal
• Neuro
• Endocrine
• etc.

So your “progression” across systems is controlled by which tags you unsuspend.

Tip: Do not move these cards to new decks. Just unsuspend them by tag and keep them in the AnKing Step Deck to keep AnkiHub updates working.

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Step 3 – (Optional) Create filtered decks that mimic your old subdecks

If you really like clicking on Cardio / GI / Renal as separate things each day:

1. From the main Anki window, go to Tools ▸ Create Filtered Deck.
2. Name it something like AnKing – Cardio.
3. In the Search box enter the tag search, e.g.:
   • deck:"AnKing Step Deck" tag:cardio
     (Adjust deck name + tag name as needed.)
4. Set the limit (e.g. 9999) and desired order (e.g. “Random notes” or “Increasing due date”).
5. Click Build.

This filtered deck will now behave very similarly to your old Zanki Cardiovascular deck:

• Only contains Cardio cards.
• Cards still “live” in AnKing Step; the filtered deck is just a temporary view.
• You can make one filtered deck per system if you want:
  • AnKing – GI → deck:"AnKing Step Deck" tag:GI
  • AnKing – Renal → deck:"AnKing Step Deck" tag:Renal
  • …

When you’re done for the day, you can Empty / Rebuild those filtered decks anytime; it will not break AnkiHub.

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Step 4 – Suggested order to mimic your old flow

You were basically doing:

1. Pick a system (Cardio, then GI, Renal, etc.)
2. Learn that system’s cards.
3. Move to the next system.

To copy that:

1. Start with 1–2 systems max (e.g. Cardio then Respiratory).
2. Unsuspend only those tags (Step 2 above).
3. Study from:
   • The main AnKing Step Deck, or
   • System‑specific filtered decks (Step 3) if you like that workflow.
4. When you feel reasonably comfortable with a system, unsuspend the next system’s tags and repeat.

Over time your active cards will span more and more systems, just like they used to across your Zanki subdecks.

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If you want, I can be even more specific

If you:

• Tell me which system you’re starting with (e.g. Cardio), and
• Confirm the exact name of the AnKing Step Deck in your collection,

I can give you exact search strings for that deck (like deck:"AnKing Step Deck vX" tag:"AnKing::Cardio") and a suggested order for the major systems (Cardio → Pulm → Renal → GI → Neuro, etc.) that you can follow step‑by‑step.

[dik11021111]

Does the toggle mark mean that i suspended the cards. When i press toggle mark my cards become blue.

[AnkiHub_AI_bot]

Good question—this is an easy place to get mixed up.

No, “Toggle Mark” is not suspend.

• Toggle Mark (shortcut: *)

  • Just adds/removes a blue mark on the card.
  • Marked cards are still active and will keep showing up.
  • The blue color you’re seeing = “marked”, not suspended.

• Suspend (shortcut: s)

  • Turns cards off so they stop appearing.
  • In the Browser, suspended cards usually show with a yellow background (and a pause icon in newer Anki versions).
  • Pressing s again unsuspends them (turns them back on).

How to check if a card is really suspended

1. Open Browse.
2. Select a card.
3. Look at the top bar:
   • If the Suspend button is highlighted / the card row is yellow → it is suspended.
   • If not yellow and Suspend is not highlighted → it is active.
4. The Mark button / blue color is separate and only for your own labeling.

So when you’re following the plan I described earlier, make sure you’re pressing s (Suspend), not Toggle Mark, when you want to turn whole groups of cards off/on.

If you want, you can post a screenshot from the Browse window and I can confirm whether your AnKing Step cards are correctly suspended/unsuspended.

[dik11021111]

My anki is in grey colour. I do not see any suspend button and tapping on ‘‘s’’ does not make my cards turn yellow.

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That helps narrow it down—thanks for clarifying.

You’re almost certainly in the Reviewer (study screen), not the Browse window. On the grey review screen:

• There is no Suspend button on the top toolbar.
• Pressing s there does nothing visual (on some versions it doesn’t suspend at all).

To suspend/unsuspend cards in the way we’ve been talking about, you must be in Browse.

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Do this step‑by‑step

1. From the main Anki window (where you see your list of decks), click Browse at the top.

2. A new window opens (white/grey table of cards). This is the Browser.

3. In that Browser window:

   • At the top toolbar you should see buttons like Card, Note, Fields, Suspend, Mark, etc.
   • On the left side you’ll see Decks, Tags, etc.

4. Click on your AnKing Step Deck under Decks on the left.

5. Press Ctrl+A / Cmd+A to select all cards.

6. Now press s:

   • The Suspend button at the top should light up.
   • The rows for those cards should change color (often yellow; in some themes it may look slightly different but still distinct from normal cards).

If you don’t see the Suspend button even in the Browse window, please:

• Take a screenshot of that Browse window (including the top toolbar)
• Post it here, and I’ll point directly to where to click.

Once we confirm you can suspend/unsuspend correctly in Browse, we can go back to the plan of activating systems (Cardio, GI, etc.) by tag.

[dik11021111]

I was in the browser window and i have no suspend button.

[AnkiHub_AI_bot]

Perfect, the screenshot explains it.

You are in the Browser, and I can see why you’re confused:
you’re using the newer Anki interface, where Suspend isn’t a button anymore—it’s only in the Cards menu and keyboard shortcut.

How to suspend with your version

1. In the Browser (like in your screenshot):
   • You already have cards selected (highlighted in blue) – that’s good.
2. Now press Ctrl+J (Windows) or Cmd+J (Mac).
   • This is the Suspend / Unsuspend shortcut in the new UI.
3. Alternatively, you can use the menu:
   • Top menu bar → Cards ▸ Suspend.

After doing this:

• Suspended cards will get a pause icon in the leftmost column (looks like ⏸).
• Their text color may dim slightly, depending on your theme.
• Press Ctrl+J / Cmd+J again to unsuspend (toggle).

Important: the blue color you see now is just “selected” (because you clicked them), not “marked” or “suspended”.

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Quick test so we’re sure it worked

1. In the Browser search bar, type:
   is:suspended
   and press Enter.
2. If your suspend worked, you should now see those cards listed.
3. To see all cards again, clear the search or type:
   deck:"AnKing Step Deck" (adjust the deck name if needed).

Once you confirm Ctrl+J / Cmd+J is working, we can continue with:

• “Suspend all” in the AnKing Step Deck
• Then unsuspend only the tags for one system at a time (Cardio, GI, etc.) as we planned.

Let me know after you try Ctrl+J / Cmd+J and what you see when you search for is:suspended.

[dik11021111]

How can I use these features on my phone now. I have an iphone with downloaded anki on it.

[AnkiHub_AI_bot]

On iPhone you can do almost the same things, just with taps instead of keyboard shortcuts. Here’s how to mirror the workflow we set up on desktop:

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1. Make sure changes sync from your computer first

1. On your computer Anki, click Sync (top right).
2. On your iPhone, open Anki.
3. Tap the sync icon (two circular arrows) at the top and let it finish.

Your suspended/unsuspended cards and tags from the AnKing Step Deck will now match on your phone.

Important: Do all the big bulk suspend/unsuspend by tag on your computer. It’s much easier there and then automatically shows up on iPhone after syncing.

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2. Suspending / unsuspending individual cards on iPhone

When you’re studying and see a card you don’t want:

1. On the review screen, tap the card actions button:
   • Three dots ••• in the top‑right (or a gear icon, depending on version).
2. Tap Suspend.
   • The card will be turned off and won’t show again until you unsuspend it.

To unsuspend later:

1. From the deck list, tap the gear icon next to the deck → Browse (or Browse Cards).
2. Use the search bar and type: is:suspended.
3. Tap a card → tap the … menu → Unsuspend.

(Exact wording may differ slightly with updates, but the Suspend option is always in that card menu.)

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3. Using tags on iPhone

On iPhone you can see and search tags, but again, it’s better to do large tag‑based selection on desktop.

To view cards with a specific tag:

1. From the deck list, tap the gear icon next to your AnKing Step Deck → Browse.
2. At the top, tap the search bar.
3. Type something like:
   tag:cardio
   or whatever tag you activated on desktop.
4. You’ll now see only those tagged cards.

This is handy if, for example, you want to quickly check which system you’re working on, or manually suspend/unsuspend a few cards while on the go.

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4. Recommended workflow between desktop + iPhone

On desktop (main control center):

• Subscribe to AnKing Step Deck via AnkiHub.
• Use Browse to:
  • Suspend all cards (Ctrl+J / Cmd+J).
  • Unsuspend specific systems by tag (Cardio, GI, etc.).
  • Optionally create filtered decks by tag.
• Sync.

On iPhone (daily reviews):

• Tap your AnKing Step Deck (or filtered decks you synced).
• Review as normal.
• Occasionally suspend a card you dislike via the ••• menu.
• Sync again when finished.

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If you tell me which system you’re starting with (e.g. Cardio) and confirm that you’ve synced, I can walk you through: “Here is exactly what you’ll see and tap on iPhone today to start reviewing only that system.”

[dik11021111]

Why is there no cards on Orthobullets and Orthoking?

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Orthobullets / OrthoKing on AnkiHub don’t automatically come with active cards in your collection just by subscribing—that’s almost always why you’re seeing “no cards.”

There are three common reasons:

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1. The deck is only on the web app (not yet in Anki)

Check this first:

1. Go to the Decks screen in Anki (desktop).
2. Look for something like “Orthobullets”, “OrthoKing”, or similar.
   • If you don’t see it at all:
     • Go to the AnkiHub web app → the deck page (Orthobullets / OrthoKing).
     • Make sure you are Subscribed.
     • Then in Anki (with the AnkiHub add‑on installed & logged in), click AnkiHub ▸ Sync (or the normal sync button if that’s how you usually sync AnkiHub).
   • After syncing, a new deck should appear in Anki.

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2. The deck is there, but everything is suspended

Many AnkiHub decks (including AnKing Step and often Ortho decks) ship with all cards suspended. That means:

• The deck shows up,
• But 0 new cards / 0 due cards until you unsuspend them.

To check on desktop:

1. Click Browse.
2. In the left sidebar, under Decks, select the Orthobullets / OrthoKing deck.
3. If the list shows cards but:
   • They have a pause icon in the first column or
   • A search for is:suspended returns them,
     then they’re suspended.
4. Select the cards (or the tags you want to start with) and press Ctrl+J / Cmd+J to unsuspend.

After unsuspending, go back to the main screen → that deck should now show New cards.

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3. Only some tags / sections are active

Some Orthobullets/OrthoKing setups mirror the AnKing Step idea: you’re meant to unsuspend sections by tag (e.g. specific topics or chapters). If:

• The deck exists,
• You see cards in Browse,
• But the New count is still 0,

then likely only a small subset (or none) are unsuspended. You’d fix it the same way you’re doing with AnKing Step:

1. In Browse, select the Ortho deck.
2. Filter by a tag you want to start (e.g. Knee, Trauma, Spine—whatever you see in the Tags list).
3. Select those → Ctrl+J / Cmd+J to unsuspend.

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What would help me give you exact steps

If you can, please:

1. Post a screenshot of your Decks screen showing the Orthobullets / OrthoKing decks and their New/Learn/Review counts.
2. In Browse, click the Orthobullets / OrthoKing deck and:
   • Tell me roughly how many cards show.
   • Let me know what happens when you search is:suspended.

With that, I can say precisely:

• Whether you need to sync from AnkiHub,
• Or just unsuspend certain tags / all cards,
• And give you the exact search strings to use.

[dik11021111]

This is the message i get and i do not know what to press.

[AnkiHub_AI_bot]

That screen is from Anki’s own sync (AnkiWeb), and the choice matters a lot:

• Upload to AnkiWeb = overwrite what’s on AnkiWeb with what’s on your phone
• Download from AnkiWeb = overwrite what’s on your phone with what’s on AnkiWeb

To avoid losing your AnKing / Zanki / Ortho setup, do this:

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1. Decide which device has the “correct” collection

From what you described, your computer is where you:

• Installed the AnkiHub add‑on
• Subscribed to AnKing Step, Ortho decks, etc.
• Have been changing tags / suspending cards

If that’s true, then:

• Your computer = “master copy”
• Your phone should match the computer

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2. Safe sequence to follow

1. On your computer:

   • Open Anki.
   • Click the sync button.
   • If you get a similar warning on desktop, choose:
     • Upload to AnkiWeb (because this is the good, up‑to‑date collection).

2. After the desktop sync finishes successfully, go to your iPhone:

   • Tap sync again.
   • When you see that popup, choose:
     • Download from AnkiWeb

This will:

• Replace the phone’s collection with the one from AnkiWeb
• Which now matches your computer + AnkiHub setup

From then on:

• Make big structural changes (subscribing to decks, mass suspend/unsuspend) on the computer
• Hit sync on computer, then Download from AnkiWeb (if prompted) on the phone so they stay in sync.

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If you’re unsure which device has the version you want to keep, tell me:

• What’s on your computer vs on your phone (which one has the AnKing Step + Ortho changes you care about),

and I’ll tell you exactly which option to pick on each device so you don’t lose anything important.