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Languages::French::Verbs
Terminology
Notes/Cards/Fields
A note is a set of information from which cards can be made
Imagine we had the following 3 fields:
Bonjour
Hello
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- these 3 fields together combine to make up a note. Order of the fields does not matter, because we cannot review a note. Notes only exist so that we can create cards from them.
From this we can make a single card (ie. Basic), we can make 2 cards (ie. Basic and Reversed) etc.
Imagine we wanted 2 cards:
Q: Bonjour
A: Hello
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And:
Q: Hello
A: Bonjour
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To do this, we just need to make 1 note with 3 fields
Card Type
For Anki to create cards based on our notes, we need to give it a card type (ie. a blueprint), which tells it which fields to display on the front and back of each card.
Each type of note can have one or more card types; when you add a note, Anki will create one card for each card type.
Once a card type has been created, every time you add a new note, a card will be created based on that card type.
- Card types make it easy to keep the formatting of your cards consistent and can greatly reduce the amount of effort involved in adding information.
- They also mean Anki can ensure related cards don’t appear too close to each other
To add and edit card types, click the “Cards…” button while adding or editing notes.
Each card type has two 'templates', one for the question and one for the answer.
For example, if we wanted to make a card:
Q: Bonjour
A: Hello
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We could set the template to:
Q: {{French}}
A: {{English}}<br>
Page #{{Page}}
Then we could generate 2 cards from 2 card types: English-French and French-English
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