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| mercutio Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3657 days ago 19 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 7 20 May 2014 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi I am really confused about anki, I have just started using it and have downloaded a suitable 1000 word list.
Occasionally I am coming across a word I totally don't want to learn and I was to remove that card, not suspend it but remove it. The only option is see is "delete note" but surely its a card not a note?! I did a test and pressed delete note on a word I didn't want to learn and it said it had deleted three cards?! can anyone explain? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4163 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 7 20 May 2014 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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As far as I understand it; each note is the sum of fields, multiple cards can be generated based
on. For example, let's say you have a note with two fields, one in the foreign language, and one in your native language. Some people may choose to create two cards from this note, one recognition, and one one production card. By deleting the note, you'll delete all cards associated with it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4661 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 3 of 7 21 May 2014 at 4:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, what Ezy Ryder said.
Currently, if you made two cards from a note, you cannot delete just one card. You have to delete the entire note, which deletes both cards. If you only want to get rid of one card but keep the other, you have to suspend that card (not the note). Does all of that make sense? Anki language can be considered a foreign language. :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6411 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 4 of 7 21 May 2014 at 5:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Here is the official explanation :)
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| mercutio Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3657 days ago 19 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 7 22 May 2014 at 12:17am | IP Logged | ||
thanks to all the replies. I gotta say even the official anki description is needlessly complicated with its own jargon, anki needs to be more intuitive I feel. so to clarify I have downloaded a 1000 word frequency list and I wanna start removing really obvious ones like "man" and "woman" etc, so its safe to say if I press delete note it will do that right? and secondly if I do delete stuff, or edit them and add or remove pictures, will that affect the original open source file that i downloaded? I don't wanna mess up some random guys deck 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6411 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 6 of 7 22 May 2014 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Have you previewed the deck? Maybe it's too basic for you? Especially if it's 1000 cards and not 1000 words/notes.
If not, yeah delete the notes as needed. It won't be changed on anyone else's computer. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4661 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 7 of 7 22 May 2014 at 2:16am | IP Logged | ||
Once you download the deck, you can do what you want with it. Delete stuff, remove stuff, add stuff, whatever - it won't do anything to the original shared deck on AnkiWeb... unless you somehow find a way to upload the changed deck back up to AnkiWeb, in which case that would be intentionally messing up some random guy's deck, not accidentally. :) Back when I was still studying it, I once downloaded an Esperanto deck, then proceeded to chop it up, mince it, sautee it, marinate it, until I had my own dish... er, personalized deck. I don't do pre-made decks anymore (I think it's better for the memory to make your own cards), but if you decide to download a pre-made deck, you will get more out of it if you personalize it to your own needs. Delete the cards you don't need, or are not ready for. Edited by kujichagulia on 22 May 2014 at 2:17am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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