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I can’t believe I haven’t been able to find anything on this…but there you go.
Does anyone know how to change the order of new cards? I just discovered the deck I’m using for RTK doesn’t match the order of the kanji in the RTK book I have. I’d like to re-order the cards so I’m seeing them in the same order I’m learning them in the book. The kanji in question was added later and Anki wants to show me new cards in the order they were added. I’ve been searching all over for what seems like basic task, but I’m not finding anything. Any ideas?
Thanks…
> the deck I’m using for RTK doesn’t match the order of the kanji in the RTK book I have
I assume the reason you are not using a proper RTK deck is that your kanji deck has some fields that RTK decks don’t have, such as readings, or example words in Japanese, or stroke diagrams, or something else.
> seems like basic task
If one of the fields in your deck is a some kind of “RTK index” which tells you where the card falls in the RTK sequence, you can export your deck as a CSV, sort it by the appropriate field, and then re-import.
If you don’t have such a field, then you can grab a deck that has the kanji in the order you want, export both decks, join your deck’s extra fields onto the data that has the kanji in the right order, and re-import.
Darn…that means I’ll lose all my stats thus far and have to start over I assume?
Well, I know there is a Heisig number field cuz I can sort by it in browse view. But when I export to tab delimited text file I end up with 2 columns, the Heisig number at the end of the cell in the second column, and therefore unsortable by that number. I could go bit by bit and manually resort it, but if I’m going to lose all my progress regardless then I may as well download a different deck that is in the proper order and start all over again I guess. The one I’m using I picked cuz it was from the 6th edition and had the most recent updates…just not in the right order I guess! Bummer…
Ok, I think I worked something out. I marked the out of order kanji, and told it to review only marked cards. That ensured I reviewed the correct one next. Then turned off the “marked only” requirement for next time. Not perfect, but at least I don’t have to start over.
I think your idea about marking the cards is a good idea. Alternatively, you could suspend all your new cards. To get a list of your new cards, type “is:new” in the search bar in the deck browser. Then at the beginning of each study session, un-suspend the new cards that you actually want to add to reviews. They should be easy to find, if you indeed have a field you can sort by.
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