Writing cards

The card editor is a small dialog with a big job: get the card out of your head and into the deck fast enough that you write the next one. It opens from any deck, lets you pick the deck at the top, and offers two card types.

Classic and cloze

A Classic card is the familiar pair: a front that asks, a back that answers.

A Cloze card hides pieces of a sentence instead. Wrap the part to hide with {{c1::like this}}, or select it and press the cloze button (or Ctrl+Shift+C). During study the hidden text shows as a blank, and revealing the answer fills it back in. Cloze shines for definitions and facts that live naturally inside a sentence.

Formatting and tags

The format bar offers bold and italic, written as markdown markers in the text, so what you type is what is stored. Tags attach to the card and become filters in the deck view later; a light habit of tagging by chapter or theme pays off the first time you need to cram one chapter.

Ctrl+Enter saves the card (Cmd+Enter on macOS).

Images

Cards can carry up to three images per side. Paste them, drop them, or use the insert button; PNG, JPEG, GIF, and WebP work, up to 20 MB each. Images render as framed figures under the text and can be clicked to zoom during a session, which makes them good for diagrams you want to be quizzed on.

Add mode

When you are building a deck, save and the editor stays open, counting the cards you have added this session and keeping the deck, type, and tags you chose. The intended rhythm is: type, save, type, save, and stop noticing the dialog entirely.

Related

• First steps for what makes a card worth writing.
• Study modes for what happens to cards once they exist.