Duplicate Selected Notes

This add-on supplements the card browser by adding a keyboard shortcut and menu entry for creating duplicates of notes.

USAGE

Pressing the shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+C by default) or clicking on the Create Duplicate entry in the Edit menu will find all notes belonging to the selected cards and duplicate them in place.

COMPATIBILITY

Initial tests have shown this add-on to both work on Anki 2.0.x and Anki 2.1.x. However, as the Anki 2.1.x line of releases is still in beta, I cannot provide any kind of official support for this platform. Please do not report issues with Anki 2.1 in the review section below. Instead, please report all issues you encounter on GitHub.

IMPORTANT NOTES

All cards generated by each note will be duplicated alongside the note All duplicated cards will end up in the deck of the first selected card The duplicated cards should look exactly like the originals Tags are preserved in the duplicated notes Review history is NOT duplicated to the new cards (they appear as new cards) The notes will be marked as duplicates (because they are!)

CHANGES

2017-08-23 – Initial 2.1 compatibility 2017-08-06 – Refactored code 2016-04-30 – Duplications can now be undone via CTRL+Z (using Anki’s default restoration points)

SUPPORT

Please do not report issues or bugs in the review section below, as I will not be able to reply to them nor help you. Instead, please report all issues you encounter either on GitHub, or by posting a new thread on the Anki add-on support forums while mentioning the name of the affected add-on in your thread title.

CREDITS AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Glutanimate

This add-on is based on “Create Copy of Selected Cards” by Kealan Hobelmann.

Licensed under the GNU AGPL v3. The code for this add-on is available on GitHub.

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• Glutanimate
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Reviews (30)

👍 2025-11-08

Clarity

👍 2025-11-03

doesn’t work

👍 2022-02-21

Currently doesn’t work with 2.1.49 - would LOVE an updated version!

👍 2022-02-20

A big thank you to the author of this add-on and also to the author of the comment dated 26.11.2020. The fix works for me in Anki ⁨2.1.43.

👍 2021-12-29

Crashed for me in 2.1.49, switched to Duplicate and Reorder (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1114271285)

👍 2021-12-23

Anki 2.1.49 (dc80804a) Python 3.8.6 Qt 5.14.2 PyQt 5.14.2

Platform: Windows 10

Flags: frz=True ao=True sv=2

Add-ons, last update check: 2021-12-23 05:07:40

Caught exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “C:\Users\andre\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\2126361512\browser_create_duplicate.py”, line 84, in <lambda>

a.triggered.connect(lambda _, b=self: onCreateDuplicate(b))

File “C:\Users\andre\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\2126361512\browser_create_duplicate.py”, line 8

👍 2021-11-30

Please don’t downvote, it still works!

Just follow Option 1 posted on the comment from 26/11/2020, and it should be fine!

Anki version 2.1.35 here

👍 2021-11-13

Error

An error occurred. Please start Anki while holding down the shift key, which will temporarily disable the add-ons you have installed.

If the issue only occurs when add-ons are enabled, please use the Tools>Add-ons menu item to disable some add-ons and restart Anki, repeat until you discover the add-on that is causing the problem.

When you’ve discovered the add-on that is causing the problem, please report the issue on the add-ons section of our support site.

Debug info:

Anki 2.1.4

👍 2021-11-09

FYI, did not work using Anki 2.1.48 on Win 10.

👍 2021-08-20

The fix posted on 26/11/2020 really helped me. Thank you, dev and the contributive user. My version is 2.1.44, Window 10. I don’t know whether it would work in the future because Anki seems to intrinsically hate duplicating

👍 2021-05-24

does not work

👍 2021-05-06

Error

Se ha producido un error. Por favor inicia la Anki manteniendo presionadas ples teclas Mayús y la flecha hacia abajo, lo que desactivará temporalmente los extensiones que tienes instaladas.

Si este error persiste sólo cuando tienes las extensiones activadas, utiliza Herramientas > Menú de Extensiones para deshabilitar alguna extensión y reinicia el Anki, repitiendo este proceso hasta que descubras qué extensión en concreto es la que causa el problema

Cuando hayas descubierto la exten

👍 2021-04-08

I appreciate your work, man. Keep on track! THX

👍 2021-02-16

Not working on 2.1.39

👍 2021-01-28

Does not work for Anki 2.35

👍 2021-01-16

Worked fine but now I get (could be cause of morphman or migaku which are the addons I recently downloaded)

Debug info:

Anki 2.1.35 (84dcaa86) Python 3.8.0 Qt 5.14.2 PyQt 5.14.2

Platform: Windows 10

Flags: frz=True ao=True sv=1

Add-ons, last update check: 2021-01-15 21:19:54

Caught exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “C:\Users\Sakariye\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\2126361512\browser_create_duplicate.py”, line 97, in <lambda>

a.triggered.connect(lambda _, b=self:

👍 2021-01-08

does not work for 2.1 an error message occurred

👍 2020-11-26

Thanks for fixing way. It works. I’m using Anki v2.35.

Option 1: For those who don’t know how to edit. I made a copy of browser_create_duplicate.py file at this link https://anotepad.com/notes/6hrtdxfc

1. Open Anki and select Tools -> Add Ons

2. Select “Duplicate Selected Notes” so it is highlighted and choose the “View Files” button to the right.

3. Open up “browser_create_duplicate.py” - you can open it with Notpad, Sublime whatever

4. Go to this link below

https://anotepad.com/not

👍 2020-11-13

Doesn’t work on 2.1.35, use this one instead -> https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1114271285

👍 2020-11-13

This fix worked to fix the error. For those not familiar with editing code, here is (hopefully) an easy to follow guide:

1. Open Anki and select Tools -> Add Ons

2. Select “Duplicate Selected Notes” so it is highlighted and choose the “View Files” button to the right.

3. Open up “browser_create_duplicate.py” - you can open it with Notpad, Sublime whatever

4. Go [here](https://github.com/zlodag/anki-addons-misc/blob/4478af6efd685cbbfd692b2fd3e9df2b288baaa2/src/browser_create_duplicate/brows

👍 2020-10-30

Thank you for your addon. I was inspired by your addon to make my own note duplicate/reposition addon. I credited your addon in the page. https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1114271285

👍 2020-10-10

Error

An error occurred. Please start Anki while holding down the shift key, which will temporarily disable the add-ons you have installed.

If the issue only occurs when add-ons are enabled, please use the Tools > Add-ons menu item to disable some add-ons and restart Anki, repeating until you discover the add-on that is causing the problem.

When you’ve discovered the add-on that is causing the problem, please report the issue on the add-on support site.

Debug info:

Anki 2.1.35 (84dcaa86) Py

👍 2020-09-23

Causes error message in 2.1. Doesn’t work

👍 2020-09-03

An error occurred

👍 2020-08-28

Error

An error occurred. Please start Anki while holding down the shift key, which will temporarily disable the add-ons you have installed.

If the issue only occurs when add-ons are enabled, please use the Tools > Add-ons menu item to disable some add-ons and restart Anki, repeating until you discover the add-on that is causing the problem.

When you’ve discovered the add-on that is causing the problem, please report the issue on the add-on support site.

Debug info:

Anki 2.1.31 (13476503) Py

👍 2020-08-20

Unfortunately, the addon doees not work on my system.

Fehler

Es ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Bitte starten Sie Anki neu und halten Sie während des Startvorgangs die Umschalttaste gedrückt, damit Anki die installierten Erweiterungen temporär deaktiviert.

Wenn das Problem nur auftritt, wenn die Erweiterungen aktiviert sind, dann benutzen Sie bitte den Menueintrag Extras > Erweiterungen um die problembehaftete Erweiterung durch selektives Deaktivieren herauszufinden.

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👍 2020-08-08

Works like charm

thanks Glutanimate

👍 2020-07-19

It works perfectly

👍 2020-07-05

Great! Thanks.

👍 2020-07-02

Brilliant!

to quickly create a new note, based on an old note, instead of copying /pasting field by field…

thanks!