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Order By Frequency
AnkiWeb addon 1120009653
Reorders an Anki deck by local word-frequency lists, previewing matched and unmatched cards before moving higher-frequency vocabulary first.
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- Last update or commit was 164 days before the snapshot (2026-04-20).
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- moritzvitt/order-by-frequency · more by moritzvitt
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- Last commit
- 2026-04-14
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- MIT
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- Python
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README
Order By Frequency
This Anki add-on orders a deck by local word-frequency data through a simple menu-driven workflow inside Anki.
It ranks cards in a target deck against one or more local frequency lists and then:
- previews the ranking inside Anki
- repositions new cards so higher-frequency words come first
Usage
Use Tools -> Order Deck By Frequency inside Anki.
The action:
- opens a deck picker, defaulting to the configured deck
- asks which bundled language or configured source this run should use
- reads the selected frequency files from
data/ - scans the configured deck
- picks a note field using the configured field priority
- generates a preview of matched and unmatched cards
- applies the reorder only if
dry_runisfalseand you confirm it
Default Setup
The default configuration targets:
- deck:
French - source file:
data/french-frequency/fr_full.txt - safe mode:
dry_run: true
That means the add-on will preview results first and will not write changes until you flip dry_run to false.
Bundled Languages
The repo now includes ready-to-use frequency lists for:
- French:
fr - English:
en - Spanish:
es - Italian:
it - German:
de - Japanese:
ja - Chinese (Simplified):
zh_cn - Chinese (Traditional):
zh_tw
Configuration
The most important settings in config.json are:
deck_name: the default deck highlighted in the pickerdry_run: preview-only modefield_priority: which note fields are checked first for a frequency matchfrequency_sources: one or more local frequency files merged in order
Development
For local Anki dev setups, this repo can be symlinked into an addons21/ directory so Anki loads it directly from your working tree.
The packaging task intentionally excludes:
.git/.vscode/__pycache__/.ipynbnotebooks
Files
addon.py: main Anki integration and ranking logicconfig.json: runtime settingsdocs/config.md: config referencedocs/: user-facing docs, release copy, and architecture notesdata/: bundled frequency lists for multiple languages
Packaging
The VS Code task creates a .ankiaddon archive named after the repository folder.
Manual packaging:
zip -r order-by-frequency.ankiaddon . -x './.git/*' './.vscode/*' './__pycache__/*' './.DS_Store' './*.ipynb'