Memrise card template [support thread]

[Eltaurus]

Absolutely! You can set up the template so that Anki would generate several cards from each note in your collection (no need to keep the same information in two separate levels with different settings, as was the case with Memrise).

1. It’s probably better to rename the fields on your version of the template first to make it more intuitive. You can do this by going to Tools → Manage Note Types → select the template → Fields from the main menu (or by pressing the Fields button in the browser when one of the cards from the template is selected). I would suggest renaming “Learnable” to “Kanji”, “Definition” to “English”, and “Extra” to “Kana”. You can also rename the template itself to something like “Memrise Japanese” from the Manage Note Types menu.
2. After saving the changes go to Cards the same way. On the top, you will see the selection for the types of cards the template generates (there is only one by default). You can create the second one by clicking Options → Add Card Type. You can rename the types to “Translation” and “Reading”, for example, from the same Options menu.
3. To change the actual content of each card type you need to make some adjustments to the code on the left:

   1. The “Translation” card should function as is, but you might want to change here what labels for each field are displayed to make them match after the renaming:

      

      Look for text inside the <label> tags. There are two labels on the front of the card to be renamed (“Extra” → “Kana” and “Definition” → “Japanese”), and three on the back (“Learnable” → “Japanese”, “Defenition” → “English”, and “Extra” → “Kana”)

      _{I just realized that my labeling on the front side in the template is wrong, which is why the renamings for the front and the back differ. Hope it won’t make the whole thing too confusing}

   2. On the “Reading” card the fields should be swapped to make the “Kanji” field the question and “Kana” the answer. So for the front of the Card you should change the following parts:

      
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      The essential ones are highlighted by red: the middle two correspond to the question and the answer respectively, while the first and the last ones change the condition under which a card is generated so that you would be asked to type reading only for those words that have both Kanji and Kana fields, and not for those, which are written completely in Kana, for example.

      Yellow ones are just the extra info which is displayed at the top after you submit the answer on Memrise.

      The gray parts are the same labels from the previous step + the question instruction, which you might want to adjust to your liking or delete altogether.

      Similarly, the fields and labels on the back of the “Reading” card should be changed like this:

      

   3. Save the changes, closing the window

   4. Now the template should work as desired, generating either of the “Translation” and “Reading” cards for each note, depending on which Fields are filled. Some empty cards might have been generated, however, if you have been saving at intermediate steps during edit. To make sure everything is in order, go to Tools → Empty Cards from the main menu and delete if there are any.

I hope this helps you achieve the setup you want, and also get an idea of how things are customized in Anki. Don’t hesitate to ask further questions if you’d like me to elaborate on any of the steps involved.