Turn off card 2

Anki Card Design
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Im creating a deck and I want:
Single cards Front->Back and not to create/display the corresponding Back->Front cards.

  • Creating basic cards doesnt seem to give the me the “back reveal”
  • Creating cards and then following the instructions in the onlibne faqs seems to result in all my Back->Front being deleted across all my other decks.

How do I create a deck of Front->back cards only without affecting other decks?

Thanks

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What do you mean by “back reveal”?

Any changes you make to your note type/template will be reflected across your collection. The decks merely contain your cards. The note types and it’s associated templates decide what cards are generated. See Getting Started - Anki Manual.

Essentially, you need a note type that generates only front→back cards and “Basic” is usually the one used for that. Have you tried using that?

If you’ve modified your note types it’s possible that “Basic” isn’t showing the default behaviour. In that case, you can go to Tools > Manage Note Types, and add a new “Basic” note type with a new name. And then use that for your cards.

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Thanks Sorata

I just want to disable all “card 2” for a certain deck.

I’m creating a language deck for my Son who is learning spanish
My notes are:
Card 1

  • front - a prompt image, then click on the image to reveal the …
  • back - the spanish word for that image

But this creates “card 2 back->front” which I dont want/need in this deck.

But i have other decks where this functionality is needed. So how do I turn off the “card 2”

Many thanks

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If you have other notes that should keep using the note type and having 2 cards, you’ll need a separate note type for these notes.

If you haven’t customized your note type at all, it could be as simple as –

  • Make sure all of your devices are in sync
  • Select these notes
  • Notes > Change Note type
  • In the right column, choose “Basic” [if that is an unedited version of the default note type]
  • Make sure everything maps like you want, and save.

If you are using a custom note type, you should make a “Clone” of it first, and then you can make whatever changes you want –

  • Make sure all of your devices are in sync
  • Manage Note Types > Add > Clone:[your note type] > give it a meaningful name so you know it won’t make 2 cards anymore
  • Manage Note Types > Cards > Select “Card 2” > Remove Card Type > save
  • Then do the above – Select these notes – Notes > Change Note type – in the right column, choose your newly edited note type – make sure everything maps like you want, and save.
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Thanks, so that prevents "card2"s being created that is get.
However when displying "card1"s I no longer have the option to ‘show answer’ which reveals an answer.

I dont know, I must be explaining myself badly, as this seems such a fundamanetal thing to do

  • Display front of card - eg. Horse
  • Test yourself
  • Click show answer - eg. Caballo
  • Show answer
  • Next card
  • Repeat

But I do not then want to see a subsequent later card “Horse->Caballo”. That card has no value to me.

The only thing that works is to browse the deck, highlight all "card2"s and suspend them.

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Thanks. I havent created anything beyond the default card types. I’ve tried your suggestions but I dont end up with the desired result which is a deck of basic “card 1” cards that work like so:

  1. Show cards - “horse”
  2. Test myself
  3. Click show answer
  4. This reveals the answer “caballo”
  5. Rate difficulty
  6. Display next card

Ensuring that I’m not later be shown a corresponding “card 2” with “caballo->horse”

Creating a deck of basic cards doesnt have the reveal answer option in step 4 above.

The only way I have found this to work is to create the deck and accept it creates abunch of redundant “card 2” cards. I then browse the deck suspending all “card 2” cards. Only then can I get my desired result.

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Yeah, cards made from the “Basic” note type still have a front and a back – where you reveal the answer.

Which of the 2 solutions did you try?

The Basic note type makes 1 card –

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The “Basic (and reversed card)” note type makes 2 cards –

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For your note type, what do you see in that dropdown at the top of Manage Note Types > Cards?

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And when i try and change this type to Basic …

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I lose any option to set the back …

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Card Templates

There’s something wrong with your note type Basic. The Back field is missing. You can manually add it or create a new non-corrupted Basic.

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That makes sense now! Yeah, we were annoyingly suggesting you switch to something that is broken! :sweat_smile: Thanks for your patience while we figured that out.

I’m going to suggest what Keks did – but with a few more steps – so that hopefully you’ll get past this broken note type for good.

  1. Manage Note Types > select “Basic” > Rename it to “brokenBasic”
  2. Manage Note Types > Add > Add: Basic > name it “Basic”
  3. Now you can do the steps I had above –
  • Make sure all of your devices are in sync
  • Select these notes
  • Notes > Change Note type
  • In the right column, choose “Basic” [if that is an unedited version of the default note type]
  • Make sure everything maps like you want, and save.
  1. In the Browse window, search for note:brokenBasic to find anything still using that broken note type, and do ^^^ those ^^^ steps again for those notes/cards
  2. Manage NoteTypes > select “brokenBasic” > Delete
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Hey everyone, thanks so much for your help. I am set up as I need it and all is working well. Whether broken feature or user error I dont know, I wouldnt have known to edit the default behaviour but I may have done something inadvertently I suppose. Anyway, all is good and I really appreciate the help (and patience) from you all. Thanks again!!

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