Cloze Overlapper Download
Aurora Benskin
For example if I want to learn a number - 0123 4567 8910 - I want every package to be a cloze and then one extra card which asks for the whole number. So just a possibility to wrap the whole thing in a cloze. In my head something like this should work:
Responding first to your penultimate reply: I did add a Mnemonic field, at the default position, last. Seemed to work as I infer the designer intended. I am running Anki 2.1.35, and cloze overlapper 0.4.0-alpha.0.
My own note type (using Closet) achieves overlapping cloze functionality with lists and a special command field telling it how many clozes should be shown before and after the current cloze. This allows me to tweak this behaviour individually per note.
To wit, Cloze Overlapper generates 1 card for each sequence item, where each sequence item can contain 1+ lines or clozed items, while allowing the user to reveal m preceding and n subsequent items in that sequence. It will also generate the card containing the full sequence. Unlike Anki, RemNote seems to have a bit more flexibility for card generation given that it uses a JSON-based Slate DOM their basis rather than a fixed number of fields in a SQL database.
So you feed the mkClozes a string where the start and end of each cloze is marked with a certain sequence of characters. Then the function returns a numbered dictionary (cards[1] is cloze deletion 1, etc.).
Each entry in the dictionary consists of two lists; a list for the question side, and a list for the answer side. And each item in the list is a tuple containing two items: first a string of text, and then a numeric code describing the text. (0=normal text, 1=cloze text, 2=hint text)
I used Anki for many years. In early versions, handling cloze deletions was pretty rudimentary; each cloze deletion had to be a separate card. In later versions, it became much more sophisticated; one cloze deletion note could generate several cards. But simple overlapping cloze deletions were still missing.
Anki cloze is just a way of formatting your digital cards in Anki to blank out an important piece of information. This blank then becomes the key part of your recall. The information around it helps you conceptualize (or guide) you to the answer.
I have some videos in my phone (not on youtube) that I want to add to my Anki flash cards.How can I do that?I am using anki 2.0 on my computer (ubuntu) and don't want to upgrade to 2.1 as I want to continue using cloze overlapper which is not yet available with 2.1
I've found the best way to learn verbatim texts like these using Anki is to create overlapping cloze deletions (e.g., display lines 1 and 2 and ask for line 3, then display lines 2 and 3 and ask for line 4, and so on). There is no easy way to do this with stock Anki: you either have to make all of the cards manually or display the text both before and after the clozed line (which provides more context than you will ever have when trying to recite/sing the text).
LPCG solves the problem: you edit the poem or song in a text file using software like Notepad, TextEdit, or vim, then run the LPCG script to generate the cloze cards and import them into Anki. You can update the text later by modifying the original file and rerunning the script.
I personally had problems remembering exactly which word fits into which cloze with my sentences (after I had have a few), but that probably is just my limited grasp on the language, as well as using bad examples. In general I found you can alleviate this problem by using cloze-hints (i. e. c#::Vocab::Hint in Anki) rather well. As well as by limiting yourself to certain domain of few words, i. e. those clozes where only a few words would fit, generally meaning for specific terminology and not general or grammatical expressions. The latter are also generally well learned through massive comprehensible input and then are ingrained in so many example sentences, that you don't need dedicated flashcards, at least not those sentence mining ones.
However, if a theorem is used often, even if it is only used in slightly different ways, you will most likely have occasions where two situations are exactly the same. Therefore proof cards lose their efficiency the more proofs you add to your Anki collection. But they are generally never useless, since you still learn the proof. An example would be two poems which have the same line. If you where to learn these poems with overlapping clozes, you would have two cards with the same answer, but the front would be different and you would still learn the position and what comes at which line or position of the respective poems.
As I have hinted at in the previous section, I highly recommend showing all previous steps in the proof, the number of steps in the whole proof as well as the operator which shows how each cloze relates to each other. For this I can refer to rule 17 (Redundancy does not contradict minimum information principle), which explains it better than I ever could, as well as lots of experience, since of course I had to fail first before understanding what rule 17 implies.
I really like the format for equations and proofs you can achieve with various methods of aligning them. However in Anki this is impossible to do with cloze cards, since the cloze needs to surround the whole LaTeX or MathJax field. A nice workaround for this is to use tables. For my proofs or in general for these purposes I use a 4 column table. I use these in general since empty fields do not get in the way and they leave room for easy adjustments later on. I can highly recommend Add Table add-on to quickly add tables.
For proof cards I can recommend Glutanimates overlapping cloze cards add-on for Anki. I used to make these overlapping cards manually (with the flexible cloze note type), as I will also demonstrate below, but the add-on saves you time in the card creation process and a lot of time if you ever need to fix something later, since you only need to fix this on one card, and not one multiple cards. Since you almost always will need to at least fix a typo the amount of work saved by the latter is definitely worth it, in my opinion.
This is explained in much greater detail in the corresponding Wiki section, but you basically just define a number of items you'd like to cloze, either by supplying them as a linebreak-separated list, or by using the cloze hotkey. The add-on will then do the rest of the work for you.
In some cases it can also make sense to use both methods for the same information, e.g.: Image occlusions to remember the location of specific structures involved in a neural pathway, overlapping clozes to memorize their sequence and interaction.
That's why I decided to work a couple of tweaks into Cloze Overlapper that directly modify how sibling-burying is handled for overlapping clozes. Specifically they allow for sibling-burying to be disabled for the new queue and review queue.
By default only the first override is active, but you are free to enable the second one as well. My reasoning behind only enabling the first option was to make it easier for users that are familiar with regular cloze deletions to switch to Cloze Overlapper. I will probably end up changing this default in the future.
The only existing workaround to the first issue is to create a separate deck for each overlapping cloze note. Issue no. 2, on the other hand, can be addressed by disabling burying of related cards in your deck options (both for new cards and review cards).
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