How to consolidate all your sub-decks into a few large master decks.

Note: This is slightly technical in nature, so if you aren’t good at using new programs intuitively, you may have problems with this. Feel free to ask any questions about it on this thread. If anyone knows of a simpler way to achieve the following, please let me know. ^_^

First off you will need to create your master decks that your sub-decks will be consolidated into. How to do this is described in the first post of this thread.

So once you are finished with that you should have something similar to the following:

-TextFugu 1 – Vocab

-TextFugu 2 – Katakana Vocab

-TextFugu 3 – Sentences

-TextFugu 4 – Kana

-TextFugu 5 – Kanji

(I’ve added a couple new master deck names as I highly recommend separating Katakana words, at least until you are generally familiar with them, as it really bogs down the main vocab deck and can quickly become overwhelming and confusing. Once you are comfortable with them, you might want to consolidate them into the main vocab deck.)

Once you have your master decks labeled as you want them, click on the “Browse” menu on the main screen of Anki. Should be in bold, just above the decks viewer.

(Warning: Changing things in this area at random can stop your decks from functioning properly, so unless you know what you are doing, don’t touch anything. I’ve tried to make the following instructions as simple as possible, but don’t play around with things if you aren’t sure you understand them. If you do mess something up, you can always delete your decks and re-import them from scratch, but that’s a lot of work depending on how many seasons you’ve done and you’ll be starting over with the SRS sequencing. So if that makes you nervous, don’t do it.)

In this “Browse” window you will see a list on the left side. What you need to do now is find one of your sub-decks such as “Basic Nouns 2″ or “Family” and click it (Note: when I say click it, I mean left-click unless I specify right-click).

This should now cause the cards within that deck to be displayed on the viewer to the right.

Click the first card, hold it down, and drag the cursor to the last card. This should highlight all the cards in the deck. If you are having problems with this, you can also hold down the Ctrl key and click them each individually.

Once all the cards in the deck are selected you want to click the “Change Deck” option which is at the top center of the screen (or you can use Ctrl+D).

The new window will have a list of all of your decks. In this case you are looking for “TextFugu 1 – Vocab” or whatever name you made yours.

Click the desired deck and then click the “Move Cards” button on the bottom left.

This will now have moved all the cards from the first deck you selected into the second deck you selected.

Simply repeat the process with all of the sub-decks that you want in the master deck “TextFugu 1 – Vocab” deck.

When you are finished moving them, re-click on each of the sub-decks and the viewer on the right should be blank for them. If it isn’t you didn’t move them correctly and will need to try again.

When they are all blank, move on to the next master deck and move all the sub-decks once again into the master deck.

For example moving all the “sentences” sub-decks (Sentences 01, Sentences 02, etc) into the master deck “TextFugu 3 – Sentences.”

Once you have double checked that all the sub-decks are now blank in the viewer, and that the master decks include all the sub-decks, close the “Browser” window.

You can now delete the sub-decks from the main window by clicking on the drop-menu to the right of each sub-deck and select delete. Be careful not to delete your master decks! @_@

Once you are done with this, you should be left with just your master decks, which now contain all of the cards from your sub-decks. ^_^

-Cheers