Re: [cloze:hint]. Can't make it work.

[Gnome]

Though centuries of scientific development it is estemated that the earth is about [4,5 billion years:billion] and that the universe is [13,75 billion years:billion].

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The DNA has the nucleobases [adenin, cytosin, tymin and guanin:four] and are essential for all known forms of life.

kl. 19:04:07 UTC+1 mandag 29. oktober 2012 skrev vrem2003-...@yahoo.com følgende:

   Can someone please type an Example ?
Also, how to make multiple cloze-deletions in ONE card.
Thank you.

[Peter Bienstman]

On 10/29/2012 10:19 PM, vrem2003-...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Thank you, Gnome.
> 1. 'Hint' worked.
> I was typing the word 'Close:' in front of my Hint.
>
> 2.About having 2 clozes. I do not want Sisters (except for Vocabulary cards ). They are nuacence, and increase the deck size. Here u go, I have an opinion :).
> I thought, there is a way (like in Anki) to have A FEW Clozes on SAME card.

Not really, then you just have to make the cloze section longer to
encompass everything you want to hide. If you like sister cards for
vocabulary use, I don't see why you don't like them for cloze cards, but
you're of course entitled to your own opinion :-)

Peter

[Peter Bienstman]

Not sure I understand, there is no hidden button to create sister cards
in Cloze. As you said, they are created automatically whenever you
insert [...]. If you don't want extra clozes, just don't insert extra
[...]'s.

Hope this helps,

Peter

On 11/04/2012 10:52 PM, vrem2003-...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Thanks Peter.
> I didn't say that I do not like Sisters in "Cloze' card.
> They are created AUTOMATICALY; would be nice if they were OPTIONAL. I do use them in very 'simple' Vocabulary cards only.
> Question: where did you hide a button to create Sister card in Cloze cards ?
> Thanks.
>

[vrem2003-...@yahoo.com]

I should have said that Sister cards are sometimes created "Unexpectedly"
instead of "Automatically".
Some card Types have button to create a Sister card, the Cloze type does not.
Sisters sometimes appeared like Ghosts with no appearant reason.
But, one 'stumble-upon ..." at a time, I'm discovering the rules. ( No
offense, Peter; I know you have no man power to spare; but you can create a
Wiki-mnemosyne to enlist volunteers. )
My latest "Stumble-upon" was your note in a forum: "Sister will be created
'tomorrow' (BTW , I wish the Automatic Sisters were created 2 weeks or so after
the Main card; why? bcs they :
1. interfere with learning
2. distort the SRS schedule
... bcs they are PROMPTS, hints for each other (during the Learning phase,
when they are scheduled too 'close' to each other ).


Thank you for the ALWAYS timely responses.
PS. One 'drawback' of your expeditious responses - the Volunteers don't have a
chance :-) to answer the questions.

[Michael Campbell]

I'm not sure I understand; do you mean they show up in the scheduling oddly?  

I have to admit that I find this extreme sensitivity to timing somewhat curious.  Answer the question when it comes up, and if it's too early, answer it a 5 and it won't show up so regularly.  If it's too late, answer 1 or 2, and it comes up more often.  Even if the initial schedule is "wrong" in some way, it evens itself out over time.   SRS is meant to enhance learning, not make it 100% optimal.   That's the point of being ABLE to rate the answer at all.

[Peter Bienstman]

On 11/05/2012 08:05 PM, vrem2003-...@yahoo.com wrote:

> Some card Types have button to create a Sister card, the Cloze type does not.

What exactly do you mean? None of the card types have such a button.

What all card types do have, is a button to preview the cards that will
be generated from the data in the card, but they will be created anyhow,
whether or not you pressed that button. In some cases/card types only 1
card will be created, in other cases more than 1.

As for scheduling of sister cards, sister cards which have been graded 2
or more will never be scheduled on the same day.

During the learning phase (i.e. grade 0 or 1), if you have enough
unlearned cards, you will only see the second sister card after the
first has been learned (i.e. graded 2 or higher). This means e.g. that
once you indicated that you know the card casa --> house, you will start
working on house-->casa

Hope this helps,

Peter