Recently I’ve found myself gravitating towards a way of studying certain content and I was curious if people had an idea of a more streamlined way of doing it and if the inbuilt Image Occlusion was likely to be able to support it at some point.
It basically started with studying anatomy and I ended up with a diagram labelled by numbers and built to a system where I have a number of cloze cards, using html to use the same image, that have one cloze for guessing from audio to the labelled number and another cloze for guessing from the numbered label to the say the name.
I’ve found this method is useful because I can warmup on some cards where the audio is said to me and suspend the others for a while and then when it comes time to recall the latin name that I used to mispronounce, it was a lot easier. Anyway, presuming this is a reasonable study approach, (and I’m curious what people say) what’s a good way to support this and is there an approach that might work with the inbuilt Image Occlusion or an upcoming feature.
I did have some cards with the inbuilt Image Occlusion that I wanted to add the audio to on the back for just the one card. It seemed like I could use conditional replacement for this and even though some parts of the Image Occlusion make it look like the Cloze Templates part of the Anki help should apply (especially looking at the default template). I can’t seem to make that work. Is it possible to display some information only on some Image Occlusion cards?
It seems like I should be able to use Image Occlusion Enhanced for this. I’ve never installed the plugin myself but have plenty of cards in my deck from it and it should be easy to add / abuse a field and update the template to make it work like I have above. The only extra overhead to a normal Image Occlusion would be batch updating the note type and adding the audio. My concern with this approach is just that I assume the Image Occlusion Enhanced plugin might be getting less maintenance now we have something inbuilt.
The way I do this now is to make a spreadsheet with the first column being the (numbered) label, the second column being the correct name for that label, and the third column being a formula that builds out the cloze for each card (usually with a link to wikipedia for the correct name). Once you have the spreadsheet laying around it’s pretty quick to do this for a new image (besides getting the audio) so I’m not too worried about creation overhead. Updates just get a bit timeconsuming.
Specifically, a lot of the images used to guess from are (deliberately chosen to be) simplified and there can be times where it’s nice to have a more detailed image, gif or view from a different angle on the back. Sometimes these are only specific to a card or two and it’s not hard to do the updates. Other times it’s all of the cards and then the inbuilt Image Occlusion would be nicer than either the generated cloze cards or Image Occlusion Enhance, so it made me wonder if there was a way to abuse those cards in a way that’s more inline to the way I’ve described studying in this post.
I’m sure people have discussed something like this before so sorry for the duplication. I just failed a bit finding the keywords in a few searches over a few occasions so I thought it would be worth posting. Thanks everyon