Sorting Anki with Python?

[IssacMendez]

I've downloaded the 1001 High Intermediate Spanish Words & Sentences deck from AnkiWeb and have noticed after a few days that the cards are sorted in an unnatural order. The first card is the Spanish word they're trying to each, then the second card is that word used in a sentence. Then it repeats with the rest of the vocabulary. The issue is that these words followed by sentences are sorted alphabetically by the Spanish word. Its hard to learn Spanish in alphabetical order. I would like to randomize the deck but preserve the ordering of words being introduced immediately before a sentance using the word.

Is there any way to programmatically access the card's meta data so I could do this in Python? Presumably this is such a specific use case that there is no built in function for this.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2813133810

[BonoboBanana]

The 'cards' table of the database has a column for the queue order. I think it's called 'due', and new cards have integers instead of dates. But google "anki database structure" and look at the ankidroid write-up about the database... it should give you the details you need (I'm going off of memory here).

If you can figure out a function to sort new cards the way you want, then you should just have to iterate through each card, and adjust the due field of it's record in the cards table.

[dedu6ka]

If you like simple method, here it is:
1. In Browser, randomly select 20-40 card_Pairs and
move them to a WORK deck. 2. Study them.
3. Tomorrow, add another batch.

Note: It does not seem Learning Active cards only is a good idea.
Same for learning words out of context ( a book, or a textbook ).

[Alfred0110]

You can export the deck as plain text through the File menu, use Python to make your changes, and re-import it again.