I have turned Anki basically into a texbook storage. Each Cloze Note contains an entire chapter from a textbook, and each cloze card represents a single piece of information.
Here is what a typical note of mine looks like.
If you are an ultra-massive cloze note user like me, how do you make sure that each cloze card gets the right amount of prompt without having to read all the way from the start just to figure the context 
I don’t really think this is a good idea, to be honest. Why don’t you make smaller cards?
I am not sure you are following me: the cloze cards are already small as they could get. It is the cloze note that is huge which contains all the cloze cards inside it.
Let me know if I understand this correctly.
The cloze note has the entire text. You generate clozes from the note. The clozes are small. But, the issue you are facing is that when you are review a cloze card, you don’t want to read the entire text to figure out the context of the cloze.
If what I said above is what you meant, I think creating clozes from a really large body of text isn’t the best way to do it. You probably want to break up the large text into smaller chunks and create clozes from those.
I see. This is why I have put these small Xs beforehand between chunks of text as a way to mark checkpoints between two separate ideas or topics. I was wondering if there is another way to do it for the convenience.
Got it. Yea I don’t know how to do this in Anki. The thing you are trying to do is kind of similar to what people do in SuperMemo. They take a chapter or something and break it up into chunks called extracts. From those extracts they create cloze deletion cards.This process is called Incremental Reading. Maybe you would be interested in it?
Also, what add-ons are you using to make your Anki look like that?
I think this maybe interesting. I just want to be able to have a coherent sense of how each cloze card is part of a “bigger picture” while also having the “right” amount of prompt text such that I am able to think about the answer of a cloze card within 10 seconds tops.
That is my main aim.
Also, what add-ons are you using to make your Anki look like that?
That is no add-on, it is a bunch of JavaScript code I have acquired to make it look like that.
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