# Is there a way to have multiple "fronts" to a card? **URL:** \ **Category:** Card Design\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-have-multiple-fronts-to-a-card/41186 "2024-02-16T07:38:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eada6e/32.png) [@elit](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/elit)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-have-multiple-fronts-to-a-card/41186/1 "2024-02-16T07:38:42Z")
Sometimes I want to learn a general concept instead of a specific fact. For instance, suppose I want to learn the “power rule” from calculus. I’ll make a card asking what the power rule is, or asking how to take the derivative of something taken to a power. But I also want to actually practice doing it. I might make some flash cards that have specific “take the derivative of this power of x” problems. But I don’t want to memorize the answers to the problem, so that when the card comes up, I immediately know what the answer is, from the last time I solved it. I want to forget the _details_ of the problem, and be reviewing the more abstract thing of _how to solve this kind of problem_. So what would be great is if I could make a card that had 10 different power-rule problems, and every time the card comes up in my review, it randomly selects one of those problems to practice. (I could make a different card for each problem, but I want anki to be tracking my level of comfort for all problems of this type: if solving one problem like this was easy, I want it to wait a longer time before it shows me another one like it.) Or to take another example: Suppose that I want to study body language in anki. The front of a card has a short video clip of someone displaying a behavioral cue, and the back says what that cue means. I don’t want to overfit to the specific video specific clip, so that as soon as I see the first frame, I remember what was about. I want to learn to recognize that cue in a bunch of different contexts and variations. So it would be great if I could make a card that had 10 short video clips of the behavioral cue, and when that card comes up, one of them is randomly selected to play. That way I don’t learn a connection between _that particular video_ and the meaning, I learn the connection between a cue, in a bunch of contexts, and the meaning. Is there a standard way to do this, to make a card that has several “fronts”, only one of which is randomly selected? Maybe there an addon for something like this? ---
**Author:** ![r.j.appleton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ad7895/32.png) [@r.j.appleton](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/r.j.appleton)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-have-multiple-fronts-to-a-card/41186/2 "2024-02-16T13:47:05Z")
A similar sort of problem arises when learning languages. I think that in future it would be neat to have the ability to hook an AI engine into constructing the question to ask to test a particular fact. Maybe not quite there yet, but I doubt the day is so far off so I hope that being able to have some sort of question generator when a card is displayed gets added as a feature request for future Anki versions. ---
**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/abdo/32/654_2.png) [@abdo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/abdo)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-have-multiple-fronts-to-a-card/41186/3 "2024-02-16T21:11:24Z")
What you describe requires some template scripting or add-ons, but it’s not very complicated to do. Maybe if you post a sample card someone will help implement the idea. ---
**Author:** ![elit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eada6e/32.png) [@elit](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/elit)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-have-multiple-fronts-to-a-card/41186/4 "2024-02-20T10:03:01Z")
Ok, I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, is there documentation for how to do this somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![tiviskan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@tiviskan](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/tiviskan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-have-multiple-fronts-to-a-card/41186/5 "2024-02-20T12:45:44Z")
You can persist javascript state from the frontside to the backside: [GitHub - SimonLammer/anki-persistence: Persist data between both sides of an anki flashcard.](https://github.com/SimonLammer/anki-persistence) I haven’t done this myself, but at least for simple problems it should be possible to generate constrained problems randomly, then dynamically calculate the solution on the backside. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-a-way-to-have-multiple-fronts-to-a-card/41186/6 "2024-03-21T12:46:04Z")
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