Merge basic and cloze notes

Anki Suggestions
1

I don’t see a reason why basic and cloze notes have to be separate. Instead of this, we could have a single hybrid note.

How is it going to work: In the card management window, we would have a checkbox indicating that a card is cloze. At most, only a single card in a note could be cloze, with the cloze deletion logic applied as we know it. Other cards shall behave as basic cards with cloze parentheses/hints inside fields removed.

Would it make sense to implement something like this?

2

I don’t understand why this function hasn’t been implemented yet. Anyway, these add-on fills that gap.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/800723229

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1668257957

3

The main benefit of the mentioned approach is that information isn’t split across multiple notes. Unfortunately, addons doesn’t solve this problem (even without addons, you can always add cloze-normal note pair manually).

4

I very much want this.

Sometimes I want to ask a “basic” question about part of the cloze-text, and it would be a sibling, which I need to auto-bury to avoid spoilers, but currently I cant make it a sibling.

Example:

ClozeText: GroupD members:

  1. {{c1::Chamundeshwari}}
  2. {{c2::Michael}}
  3. {{c3::John}

BasicFront: Who is mother of Chamundeshwari?

BasicBack: Bhagyalakshmi

5

You can always put a Basic Q/A in a cloze type, just write the question and cloze-mark the answer.

Who is mother of Chamundeshwari?
{{c4::Bhagyalakshmi}}

6

Im not sure what do you mean. Does the full clozeText look like this?

GroupD members:

{{c1::Chamundeshwari}}

{{c2::Michael}}

{{c3::John}

Who is mother of Chamundeshwari?

{{c4::Bhagyalakshmi}}

7

That can work, but a better way is to make multiple fields for “basic questions” and use the trick described in Un(der) documented feature: behavior of cloze replacement fields that do not contain instance cloze reference · Issue #333 · ankitects/anki-manual · GitHub.

9

You can do it like that if you want. It probably makes more sense to use multiple cloze-marked fields.

See: Combine basic and cloze card types? - #4 by Danika_Dakika

10

If I do it like this I spoil myself the hardest name on the list.

If I cloze the hindu name with c1, I still help myself by saying that I know mother of c1.

if I cloze the hindu name with c5 I still know that c5 or c4 is related to GroupD, also I will have 5 cards where I could have 4.

Whatever I do I reveal more information to myself than I would like.

11

Wait. One probably can do it with multiple clozeText fields?

This is actually big…