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 c…

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

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).

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: {{c1::Chamundeshwari}} {{c2::Michael}} {{c3::John} …

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}}

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}}

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 .

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…

Wait. One probably can do it with multiple clozeText fields? This is actually big…

Merge basic and cloze notes

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Danika_Dakika May 26, 2026, 4:16pm 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

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Merge basic and cloze notes

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