New feature

[alexriina]

New feature

[AlexRiina]

I've just released an update to the plugin that includes the code changes in #6. If the "detect duplicates" functionality still isn't working well for you in the updated version, let me know what kind of rules you have configured and I'll see if I can find a better way to do that calculation. I've updated just the similarity rule, but some of the others could use some love.

Please feel free to share with anyone you think would fine it useful

[AlexRiina]

Thanks, @arisaeedi! I'm happy to hear you find it useful.

My initial impression was that the current implementation would be too slow to support looking at large pre-made decks but that the functionality would still be great to have. My own decks have some repeated concepts and auto-generated cards from previous experiments and I'd love to clean them up.

So anyway, I took a stab at it and threw it into #6
which you can either install locally if following along with the readme or install from
plugin.zip (probably good to make a backup of your deck just in case).

With that, you'd be able to find duplicate notes using your rules, mark them with a tag like duplicate-deck1-deck2 and then suspend cards from either deck that match those tags. I'd bet in some cases, there are duplicate cards but not all cards on two identified notes are duplicates, so someone would have to pick the ones to suspend carefully, but hopefully this at least makes a clear checklist.

[arisaeedi]

That was so fast! Regardless, this was exactly what I was looking for. I'm having a little bit of trouble getting it to work on my deck. I'm not sure if it's the card type or cloze deletions, or the fact that it has a lot of media files that might make running it sluggish as you mentioned. If you incorporate it into a final build (sorry dunno the lingo here super well), I'd definitely spread the word about this awesome work.

[AlexRiina]

Thanks, it was definitely pretty slow on my main anki profile and that was sometimes causing my OS to ask if I wanted to kill the process. I've reimplemented the similarity check and replaced the very inefficient way that I was building the list of duplicated notes.

For me, the version I uploaded before took about a minute to calculate the duplicates on my full deck and now takes about 7 seconds. If you have time I'd be curious to see if this version is faster for you as well. I just dropped another plugin file into #6 (comment)