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Cloze Overlapper
0.03MB. Updated 2017-03-08. Only supports Anki 2.0.x.
Description
Facilitates memorizing enumerations, lists, or any other type of sequential information by breaking the sequence up into cards where each item serves as the context cue for the next:
COMPATIBILITY
This add-on only works with Anki's stable release branch (2.0.x ≥ 2.0.37). The 2.1 beta branch is not supported at this point in time.
BACKGROUND
Memorizing lists and enumerations has always been a particularly difficult part of studying flashcards. Good flashcards follow the minimum information principle, where each card is kept as short as possible. Sequential information has unfortunately always somewhat eluded that basic principle because it is hard to break down into smaller chunks. Normally you would employ methods like grouping or categorizing to consolidate information, but with each item building upon the next, that does usually not work for sequences or enumerations.
One of the common recommendations in cases like this has always been to create overlapping flashcards, where each card's answer serves as the question prompt for next card in line. For an array of three list items A, B, C you would end up with three cards of the form A → B, B → C, and C → D. What results is chain of overlapping associations between each sequence node that can potentially improve the storage and retrieval strength of the entire sequence.
While this method is generally assumed to be quite effective, following it requires a significant time investment up-front that only few students are able or willing to make.
THE ADD-ON
This is where Cloze Overlapper comes in. It takes care of all the arduous steps required to create these flashcards manually and provides you with a dead-simple workflow: You paste in the sequence or list, adjust the cloze generation settings, and let the add-on generate the cards for you.
More generally speaking, Cloze Overlaper provides Anki with a completely novel cloze system that can cover almost every use case you can think of, be it revealing each taxon of a classification system individually, or even gradually building up to an entire poem:
Due to working with the formatting tools that Anki provides itself, the cards generated by this add-on are fully compatible with all Anki platforms, smartphone apps included:
VIDEO DEMONSTRATION
RELEASE LOG
This section will always be updated with the latest changes to Cloze Overlapper. More details on major releases are listed in the next section. For a full release log, including smaller bug fix releases and more details on each entry, make sure to check out the releases page on GitHub.
2017-03-07: v0.3.0 – Adds a couple of options surrounding full cloze card generation
2017-03-03: v0.2.1 – Fixes some smaller bugs and adds a button to remove selected clozes
2017-03-01: v0.2.0 – Initial public release
LATEST CHANGES AND NEWS
2017-03-07
v0.3.0:
GitHub.
OTHER ADD-ONS
Make sure to also give some of my other add-ons a try:
ankiglutanimate [αt] gmail . com
MORE RESOURCES
Want to stay up-to-date with my latest add-on releases and updates? Feel free to follow me on Twitter: 
@Glutanimate
New to Anki? Make sure to check out my YouTube channel where I post weekly tutorials on Anki add-ons and related topics: 
/ Glutanimate
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SUPPORT THIS ADD-ON
Writing, supporting, and maintaining Anki add-ons like these takes a lot of time and effort. If Cloze Overlapper has been a valuable asset in your studies, please consider using one of the buttons below to support my efforts by buying me a coffee, sandwich, meal, or anything else you'd like:
Each and every contribution is greatly appreciated and will help me maintain and improve Cloze Overlapper as time goes by!
COMPATIBILITY
This add-on only works with Anki's stable release branch (2.0.x ≥ 2.0.37). The 2.1 beta branch is not supported at this point in time.
BACKGROUND
Memorizing lists and enumerations has always been a particularly difficult part of studying flashcards. Good flashcards follow the minimum information principle, where each card is kept as short as possible. Sequential information has unfortunately always somewhat eluded that basic principle because it is hard to break down into smaller chunks. Normally you would employ methods like grouping or categorizing to consolidate information, but with each item building upon the next, that does usually not work for sequences or enumerations.
One of the common recommendations in cases like this has always been to create overlapping flashcards, where each card's answer serves as the question prompt for next card in line. For an array of three list items A, B, C you would end up with three cards of the form A → B, B → C, and C → D. What results is chain of overlapping associations between each sequence node that can potentially improve the storage and retrieval strength of the entire sequence.
While this method is generally assumed to be quite effective, following it requires a significant time investment up-front that only few students are able or willing to make.
THE ADD-ON
This is where Cloze Overlapper comes in. It takes care of all the arduous steps required to create these flashcards manually and provides you with a dead-simple workflow: You paste in the sequence or list, adjust the cloze generation settings, and let the add-on generate the cards for you.
More generally speaking, Cloze Overlaper provides Anki with a completely novel cloze system that can cover almost every use case you can think of, be it revealing each taxon of a classification system individually, or even gradually building up to an entire poem:
Due to working with the formatting tools that Anki provides itself, the cards generated by this add-on are fully compatible with all Anki platforms, smartphone apps included:
VIDEO DEMONSTRATION
RELEASE LOG
This section will always be updated with the latest changes to Cloze Overlapper. More details on major releases are listed in the next section. For a full release log, including smaller bug fix releases and more details on each entry, make sure to check out the releases page on GitHub.
2017-03-07: v0.3.0 – Adds a couple of options surrounding full cloze card generation
2017-03-03: v0.2.1 – Fixes some smaller bugs and adds a button to remove selected clozes
2017-03-01: v0.2.0 – Initial public release
LATEST CHANGES AND NEWS
2017-03-07
v0.3.0:
- New: Option to disable full cloze card generation (thanks to smh, dtconan18, Jon, and everyone else who suggested this)
- New: Option to automatically suspend full cloze cards on creation
- Fixed: More checks to prevent rare missing config errors (thanks to Chris for the bug report)
- Piotr Wozniak for laying the theoretical groundwork for overlapping cloze deletions with his 20 rules of formulating knowledge
- Soren Bjornstad for giving me the inspiration for this add-on with his project AnkiLPCG, back when it was still a standalone module
GitHub.
OTHER ADD-ONS
Make sure to also give some of my other add-ons a try:
- Image Occlusion Enhanced - image-based cloze deletions
- Review Heatmap - tracks your review streaks and motivates you to keep on going
- Advanced Previewer - preview and review multiple cards at once right from within the previewer
- Search and Replace Tags - rename tags across multiple notes
- Batch Note Editing - makes batch-editing notes a breeze
- Sticky Searches - quick toggles for often used search terms in the browser
ankiglutanimate [αt] gmail . com
MORE RESOURCES
Want to stay up-to-date with my latest add-on releases and updates? Feel free to follow me on Twitter: @Glutanimate
New to Anki? Make sure to check out my YouTube channel where I post weekly tutorials on Anki add-ons and related topics: / Glutanimate
============================================
SUPPORT THIS ADD-ON
Writing, supporting, and maintaining Anki add-ons like these takes a lot of time and effort. If Cloze Overlapper has been a valuable asset in your studies, please consider using one of the buttons below to support my efforts by buying me a coffee, sandwich, meal, or anything else you'd like:
Each and every contribution is greatly appreciated and will help me maintain and improve Cloze Overlapper as time goes by!
Download
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To download this add-on, please copy and paste the following code into the desktop program:
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Reviews
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The work you are doing to improve learning is great..Keep up the great work Glutanimate!!
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Thank you for developing this. It's excellent.
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This is amazing at what it does!
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Extremely Useful
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it really helped
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Zum Lernen langer Listen einfach klasse. Bspw. Arterien / Venen und Nerven oder Komplikationslisten und Differentialdiagnosen. Gute gemacht!
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Another plug-in from glutanimate that is totally awesome. Even though it's pretty straightforward, the variations are many. Perfect tool for creating pathways, like in neuroscience and biochemistry, and learning complex related topics.
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Thank you soo much for this addon. We need more people like you (programmers) that can help more people like me (non programmers). I've been looking for something like that for my learning Cantonese. You've made my day! ;)
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Works wonderfully!
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Cloze overlapper is the gold standard for what a plugin should be.
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Nice one!
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Great Stuff!
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I like it.
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amazing for my nursing care planning schedule.
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Works just have to play around with it. Any way to convert regular cloze cards to this?
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Funny, it never once occurred to me that this would not solve my problem of having to type in four answers for a 4-cloze note. If spelling is important (not doctor?), and we're just supposed to analog write on paper in front of the computer, we have to write the previous item prompt and the item we're remembering.
I spent the afternoon on the videos, installed, made some cards, and only then was directed to a thread where it's explained that only one "type"-field per card is allowed. We know that. That's what we wanted this for -- to split clozes into multiple cards to avoid that limitation.
If this is creating separate cards for each line of a list, why can there not be one "type"-field per card, so we can type in the answer?
I spent the afternoon on the videos, installed, made some cards, and only then was directed to a thread where it's explained that only one "type"-field per card is allowed. We know that. That's what we wanted this for -- to split clozes into multiple cards to avoid that limitation.
If this is creating separate cards for each line of a list, why can there not be one "type"-field per card, so we can type in the answer?
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Anki essential
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Awesome missing feature added. Thanks!
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shut up and take my money!
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Very Useful
Thank you very much. It is very useful to remember lists.
Thank you very much. It is very useful to remember lists.
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Awesome
Just an awesome and very useful addon! Thanks for releasing it.
Just an awesome and very useful addon! Thanks for releasing it.
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sounds good
but if only it worked on anki mobile it would have been hilarious
but if only it worked on anki mobile it would have been hilarious
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Some bugs
Hello there ! thanks for your awesome add... please if you can fix some bugs... whenever i add a list row that contain some colored words and then i add the overlapping [o]] and add the note to find that this sentence which contained the colored word has split into 2 sentences.. please fix it . thanks :)
Hello there ! thanks for your awesome add... please if you can fix some bugs... whenever i add a list row that contain some colored words and then i add the overlapping [o]] and add the note to find that this sentence which contained the colored word has split into 2 sentences.. please fix it . thanks :)
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Very useful addon
This addon is great for making cards for memorising lists. Would reccommend people to watch the authors videos on youtube to learn about all the features.
This addon is great for making cards for memorising lists. Would reccommend people to watch the authors videos on youtube to learn about all the features.
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Just perfect
Such a useful addon to help users to memorize lists, paragraphs, poems and so on. Excellent job!
Such a useful addon to help users to memorize lists, paragraphs, poems and so on. Excellent job!
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Awesome
One of the best addons.
One of the best addons.
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Out of the 10+ add-ons I have, this is definitely in my top 3. I have struggled with putting metabolic pathways (Endocrinology class, yep), lists, sonnets onto Anki because of the lack of clues and connection-building -- but this is a godsend. Out of the myriad of add-ons I have, this is definitely in my top 3 most valuable for studying. Get it now!! Also, the "Remarks" field is great.
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Excellent
Works as advertised.
Works as advertised.