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This is useful when you don’t want to delete cards or notes, but don’t need them for the time being. The “Suspend” function hides a card or note from review until it is manually unsuspended in the browser. Suspend and Unsuspend Cards & Notes Suspend cards and notes if you want to find the cards or notes quickly in the browser. If you don’t have very big decks, I would recommend mainly using tags for structuring and to use “Mark” and “Tag” only temporarily, e.g. For this, you have 7 different colors to choose from, whereas “mark” refers to the entire note. You can highlight notes either via the map browser (“ Toggle Mark” or directly while studying via “More” > “Mark Note”.) Flagging vs. This makes it easier to find marked notes. Additionally, it automatically gets the tag “marked”. A note can either be marked or not.Ī marked note is highlighted in the card browser. Here there are no different colors, keywords or similar. Tip: Use the mark function for finer distinctions within tags or for temporary problems (e.g. But you can also add tags directly when creating a note or learning. If you click on one of the tags, only the notes that have this tag will be displayed. You will find the added tags in the left sidebar at the bottom. In the next window, you can simply add one or more tags (separated by a space).Then click either in the top menu (Notes) or with the right mouse button on Notes > Add Tags.Select the cards or notes you want to tag.( Click here to read about the difference). In fact, you can only add tags to notes, not to the individual cards. You can easily add tags in the card browser. In the card browser, you can then filter for these or use them to create filtered decks.Īll in all, there are the functions “Add tags”, “Toggle Mark”/ “Mark note” and “Flag”. This is explained among other things in the user manual.ĭistinctions into different subtopics and chapters should rather be made with tags. Therefore it is not recommended to create too many different decks and subdecks. Mark, Tag and Flag – How Does it Work?ĭecks should be understood as very rough categories in Anki.

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How to do this you will learn in the next point. This is also recommended by the Anki developers. between different chapters, it is advisable to use tags instead of subdecks. If you just want to learn the cards from one subdeck, you select this one and click on “Study Now”. However, for new cards, the subdecks are reviewed one after the other. If you want to learn all subdecks, you can simply click on the main deck. Decks and Subdecks – What’s the difference? I would recommend you not to overdo it though. By clicking on the “+” and “-“ next to the main stack, you can expand and collapse the subdecks.īy the way, you can also add subdecks to other subdecks. The subdeck will then be displayed below the main deck.Now you can simply take one deck and drag and drop it into another deck, just like in the file manager on your computer.First, you create a normal deck by clicking on “Create deck”.main deck: languages, subdeck 1: French, subdeck 2: Spanish). There is also the possibility to create subdecks (e.g. How to Create Subdecks in Anki?Ĭards in Anki are organized in decks. The difference between cards and notes is explained here.īy the way: I already wrote a post about how you can shuffle your Anki cards to not always get the same order if that interests you too. Info: With the button in the upper left corner you can switch between the cards and notes view.

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