Automatically Sort Cards Into Decks (Card Sorter)

This simple add-on allows you to tie specific card types to specific decks.

For example

• You have note type for words that is called Word note and the cards in it have these fields:
  • Word
  • Meaning
  • Audio
• Suppose you want to create 3 card types with each field on in the front, but don't want to keep audio cards in the same deck as word and meaning cards
• Now you can assign a deck to any card type and this add-on will automatically sort all your cards into them
• The sorting happens on each sync and on each newly added card

How to configure the add-on

Here is the example of config.json file:

{
  "sortData": {
    "Example word note": [
      { "card": 1, "deck": "Front and Back Sides" },
      { "card": 2, "deck": "Front and Back Sides" },
      { "card": 3, "deck": "Listening Cards" },
      { "card": 4, "deck": "Anything Else" }
    ],
    "Another example note": "Deck for All Cards"
  }
}

• Just replace "Example word note" and "Another example note" for your own note type names
• Then specify the deck for each existing card types or just put one deck name for all card types
• In example given earlier this will look something like that:

{
  "sortData": {
    "Word note": [
      { "card": 1, "deck": "Vocab" },
      { "card": 2, "deck": "Vocab" },
      { "card": 3, "deck": "Listening" }
    ]
  }
}

• Then reload Anki and enjoy

Note: this add-on is not removing or altering your cards, only moving them between decks, but you might want to backup your collection before installing, just in case

Also: when adding cards with AnkiConnect, you need to sync to apply sort. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a good way to detect when this adding happens while being able to change individual cards' decks