Move an Anki deck to Mochi without duplicates
Ten Anki notes become ten Mochi cards. A second import skips all ten instead of copying them again.
Captured August 2026 · follow-up corrected for clarity and lightly reformatted
The source deck
The Anki deck contains eight Basic notes and two Cloze notes. The migration writes one Mochi card per note and stores the Anki note ID with it, so the same import can be run again without adding copies.
The prompt
Using Toolforest, migrate my Anki deck called “Japanese Vocab” to a Mochi deck with the same name. Preserve the card text, example sentences, tags, and cloze cards; use the Anki note IDs to prevent duplicates, and leave the Anki deck unchanged. Run the Mochi import twice, then report what was created, skipped, or failed.
The response
Using Toolforest, migrate my Anki deck called “Japanese Vocab” to a Mochi deck with the same name. Preserve the card text, example sentences, tags, and cloze cards; use the Anki note IDs to prevent duplicates, and leave the Anki deck unchanged. Run the Mochi import twice, then report what was created, skipped, or failed.
Executing anki-find_notes Executing mochi-list_decks Executing mochi-create_deck Executing mochi-create_cards Executing mochi-create_cards Migration completed successfully.
| Mochi import | Created | Skipped | Failed |
|---|---|---|---|
| First run | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Second run | 0 | 10 duplicates | 0 |
Created active Mochi deck “Japanese Vocab” (7NhmBy84) with:
- 8 standard cards and 2 cloze cards
- Original card text, example sentences, and tags preserved
- Cloze syntax converted to Mochi format
- Anki note IDs stored as
ext::<note-id>tags for deduplication
Final verification found exactly 10 cards. The Anki deck was only read and remains unchanged. An older trashed Mochi deck with the same name was also left untouched.
List the cards in the new Mochi deck here.
Executing mochi-list_cards The new Japanese Vocab deck contains:
- 新しい (あたらしい) → new
- 毎日 (まいにち) → every day
- 話す (はなす) → to speak
- 食べる (たべる) → to eat
- 友達 (ともだち) → friend
- 学校 (がっこう) → school
- 大きい (おおきい) → big
- 水 (みず) → water
わたしは学生{{1::です}}。— clozeこれ{{1::は}}本です。— cloze
The example sentences and tags are included on each card.
The second import
The first pass creates ten cards. The second sends the same Anki note IDs and skips all ten. No duplicates are added, and nothing in Anki is changed.
