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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
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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!
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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Essential Add-on for me.
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Good!
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<3 <3<3
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Firstly have a meal on me.
Amazing job with all the Add-ons.
Please reconsider adding typing support for this Add-on. It would simply be awesome.
I have no idea if it would be possible but I know of one Add-on that allows more than one type field per card, called "Multiple type fields on card"
Amazing job with all the Add-ons.
Please reconsider adding typing support for this Add-on. It would simply be awesome.
I have no idea if it would be possible but I know of one Add-on that allows more than one type field per card, called "Multiple type fields on card"
Comment from author
That was very generous of you, thank you! I really appreciate the continued support! :)
Typing is definitely something I'd like to look into again. That add-on is a good start, but the implementation is a bit too hacky and unstable for my taste (it overwrites quite a few private methods in Anki's code). Ideally I'd like to find something that works across all platforms. Perhaps this will be easier to implement on Anki 2.1. No guarantees, though!
Typing is definitely something I'd like to look into again. That add-on is a good start, but the implementation is a bit too hacky and unstable for my taste (it overwrites quite a few private methods in Anki's code). Ideally I'd like to find something that works across all platforms. Perhaps this will be easier to implement on Anki 2.1. No guarantees, though!
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!!!
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I'd love this to be updated to work with Anki 2.1, because this is one of my "must have" add-ons!
Comment from author
Thanks for the rating! Glad you're enjoying the add-on. I'm working on the 2.1 port as we speak.
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Useful add on for the biosciences (pathways, post-receptor activation steps...)
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Nice ADD!
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Save a lot of my time. Thanks.
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It is well thought-out, well implemented, and phenomenally brilliant, really. It is utterly transforming my ability to work with lists of things I need to memorize, as well as writing (poems, songs, verses, etc.) I need to memorize. It's incredible.
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Thank you, awesome addon. I would like to use it more, unfortunately, for me, I can't use it togheter with Emacs package Anki-Editor. I would like to add cards that use: [[oc::text]], however, in Emac's Org-Mode the "[[ ]]" implements a hyperlink, so I can't export the notes correctly. Is there any way to change the syntax from [[oc::text]] to something like {{oc::text}}?
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Has been great for medical school. Study for step 1 right now and has been enormously helpful in learning lists.
One nit-picky thing is I wish the font size in the browser could be put back to the default/original size for this add-on. I index my cards and sort them by their index id, so when I'm scrolling through a deck in the browser looking for a specific topic to syudy, the fonts get big and small because this addon has a larger font. Makes it a little harder to quickly find a topic by eye. Currently looking for a way to change the font size in the browser so everything is the same size
One nit-picky thing is I wish the font size in the browser could be put back to the default/original size for this add-on. I index my cards and sort them by their index id, so when I'm scrolling through a deck in the browser looking for a specific topic to syudy, the fonts get big and small because this addon has a larger font. Makes it a little harder to quickly find a topic by eye. Currently looking for a way to change the font size in the browser so everything is the same size
Comment from author
Hi! Thanks for the feedback! Glad you've been enjoying the add-on.
For what it's worth, the add-on's card template actually uses the default font size for the browser appearance. You can check this by creating a new Anki profile and adding some basic cards and overlapping clozes, and then comparing how they appear in the browser.
If you are using a shared Step 1 deck like Zanki or Bros then they are more than likely equipped with custom card templates that render slightly differently in the browser. In order to apply the same font formatting to the Cloze Overlapper template you can do the following: Find a card with a smaller font size in the browser, click on "Cards" in the editor section, then click on "More" at the bottom of the card template editor. You should be able to select "Browser appearance" or something similar. Click on that and a dialog with a font selection menu should come up. Remember what font and font size is set there. Then repeat the previous steps for the Cloze Overlapper note type right up to the point where the dialog comes up. Set the font values you remember from the other note type, then confirm with OK to apply the changes.
N.B.: It might look like Cloze Overlapper and the other note types are using the same values (Arial 12), but that is actually not the case. By default, the font values of card templates in Anki are unset. I.e.: It might say Arial 12, but Anki actually uses the system-wide font settings to determine the card's appearance in the browser. It's only after clicking "OK" in the font settings dialog that the options shown there are actually applied. There is also no easy way to undo this change with Anki 2.0, so be careful with that. Once you set the font settings for one card template you will have to do it for every single one to reach the same level of consistency as before.
For what it's worth, the add-on's card template actually uses the default font size for the browser appearance. You can check this by creating a new Anki profile and adding some basic cards and overlapping clozes, and then comparing how they appear in the browser.
If you are using a shared Step 1 deck like Zanki or Bros then they are more than likely equipped with custom card templates that render slightly differently in the browser. In order to apply the same font formatting to the Cloze Overlapper template you can do the following: Find a card with a smaller font size in the browser, click on "Cards" in the editor section, then click on "More" at the bottom of the card template editor. You should be able to select "Browser appearance" or something similar. Click on that and a dialog with a font selection menu should come up. Remember what font and font size is set there. Then repeat the previous steps for the Cloze Overlapper note type right up to the point where the dialog comes up. Set the font values you remember from the other note type, then confirm with OK to apply the changes.
N.B.: It might look like Cloze Overlapper and the other note types are using the same values (Arial 12), but that is actually not the case. By default, the font values of card templates in Anki are unset. I.e.: It might say Arial 12, but Anki actually uses the system-wide font settings to determine the card's appearance in the browser. It's only after clicking "OK" in the font settings dialog that the options shown there are actually applied. There is also no easy way to undo this change with Anki 2.0, so be careful with that. Once you set the font settings for one card template you will have to do it for every single one to reach the same level of consistency as before.
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super useful
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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?
Comment from author before post was edited
Sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the add-on. However, there's a reason why typing support is not advertised anywhere within the add-on description, numerous wiki entries, nor tutorial videos: Anki does not support multiple typing fields on the same card, thus Cloze Overlapper doesn't either (https://github.com/glutanimate/cloze-overlapper/issues/1). It begs the question then why you would rate the add-on for what it can't be, instead of rating it for what it is.
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awesome
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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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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.