How to know which deck a card comes from

[grave ember]

I put all my decks in an All deck bc I want to review everything randomly shuffled together. However, my notes could be a single character (F/Foxtrot) and sometimes I don’t remember the context I made the card in. Is it better to modify the card template or front, or is there a way to see where cards come from when reviewing on iOS?

[grave ember]

How to know which deck a card comes from

[rare bluff]

I think what you're asking for can be solved with {{Deck}}/{{Subdeck}} Special Fields on your template -- https://docs.ankiweb.net/templates/fields.html#special-fields. But let me know if I've misunderstood.

[grave ember]

Sounds about right. Is that the way most people would approach this? Modifying all templates?

[rare bluff]

It's one way! If you have tons of different note types for different subdecks/subjects, there might be other ways to differentiate them. But if you use the same note type for pretty much everything, this is a fast way. You might want to format the deck/subdeck name to be small and unobtrusive on your cards -- enough of an indicator, but not distracting.