How to add Optional Reversed Field to 3rd Party Note Types

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I’m learning Japanese on genki which have an official anki deck. There are thousands of prewritten cards all on their custom note type. How do I edit the note type to have the same field and the default optional reversed note type.

To learn another language, when you get to a moderate point in the learning, its very good to start recalling the target language form the native hence why I need reversed cards.

My goal is to take advantage that anki generates two cards form the same creation note, ultimately reducing clutter in my card browser.

Also, does this give the two cards their own study history? Since these are two different kinds of recall both need to be mastered.

*edit ive figured out to to always make a second card reversed. But back to my original question, is there a way to make certain reversed cards optional in the downloaded Note type in case certain cards dont make sense to be reversed later on?

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How many cards does that custom note type currently make? I would think it at least would have reversed cards, but maybe not?

There’s 2 ways to go here – if you think you’ll almost always want the reversed card, and it will be rare not to want it – you can stick with a regular note type that makes reversed cards – which you already figured out how to do. For the rare times you don’t want a reversed card, you can either suspend the reversed card, or use a separate note type for those notes.

If you think it will be more of an even split between wanting and not wanting reversed cards, you can turn that note type into an “optional reversed” type the same way the default type does it (so you can look at that if you want a model to follow). –

  1. Add a field to your note type called AddReverse
  2. Add a “clone” of the card type you want to reverse
  3. Click “Flip” for this new card type – or if that doesn’t work for these templates, you can cut and paste the {{field replacements}} and the formatting that surrounds them to move them around on your templates.
  4. When you finish, add conditional replacement tags at the the beginning/end of the front template – {{#AddReverse}} … {{/AddReverse}}

That new card type will only be created for a note if there is something in the “AddReverse” field.

Yes, and that’s exactly the reason why. The 2 cards can be introduced separately or together, but they will have their own review history and follow their own schedules from then on.

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