Updating Anki deck

[badlydrawnrob]

When importing the new deck:

• Merge Note Types toggled on is the option you want to update all cards
• Toggle Merge Note Types off if you want to play it safe
• Increment the **major**.minor.patch for breaking changes.

If the Note Type schema has changed (you've moved fields, changed the name of fields, etc, existing cards — and Merge Note Types is off — your old cards won't be affected.

For a very dry overview of Anki storing values in the database, this post is very informative. I'm still unclear on how it does/doesn't merge Note Types however.¹

• Updating without breaking current cards
• Making sure new (or edited) Note Types don't break existing Note Types.

Steps taken

1. Added a customised deck, with field names changed
2. Add the original deck with Merge notetypes disabled
   • Update notes and Update notetypes set to "if newer"

Adding an Anki deck (with Note Types)

Options for importing the anki-major.minor.patch.apkg — it does allow non-breaking changes but new changes won't be included if so. If the updates are minor, it shouldn't affect things too badly.

Merging Note Types?

Footnotes

1. Does it use hashes to compare different note types? The Note ID? ↩

[badlydrawnrob]

Closing this issue as done