fc / Card Types

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Normal Cards

During review, the heading is shown with its "Back" subheading collapsed, when flipping the card, the back heading is shown, then the user is asked to rate the review performance.

Positions: front

Text-Input Cards

If the card has a "Back" heading, the first line of its contents is considered as the expected answer.

If the card is compact (has no back heading), the first line of its main content is used instead.

This allows adding an e.g. explanation to the card.

Answers can be emphasized (e.g. foo ). In that case, only the text between the emphasis markers is compared to the user input.

On reviewing the card, the users are prompted to enter their answer, which is then compared to the expected answer.

The expected answer is overlayed with "<got> (expected: <expected>)", coloring correct parts in green and incorrect parts in red.

If the provided answer is shorter than the expected one, a sequence of - (colored in red) is prepended / appended to it.

This filler character can be customized via org-fc-diff-missing-char .

Positions: front

Double Cards

Similar to normal cards, but reviewed both in the "Front -> Back" direction and in the "Back -> Front" direction.

Positions: front , back

Cloze Cards

The cards text contains one or more holes . During review, one hole is hidden while the text of (some) remaining ones is shown.

Flipping the card reveals the text of the hidden hole, using org-fc-type-cloze-hole-face to highlight it.

Card titles can contain holes, too.

Positions: 0 , 1 , …

Cloze cards can have a number of sub-types.

Deletion 'deletion

Only one hole is hidden.

Enumerations 'enumeration

All holes behind the currently review one are hidden, too.

Useful for memorizing lists where the order of items is important.

Single 'single

All holes besides the current one are hidden.

Useful for learning syntax or function names of a programming language by using a src block in the card and marking parts of the code as holes.

Context 'context

Holes org-fc-type-cloze-context (default 1) around the currently reviewed one are shown.

Useful for memorizing longer lists where the order of items is important.

Hole Syntax

Deletions can have the following forms

  • {{text}}
  • {{text}@id}
  • {{text}{hint}}
  • {{text}{hint}@id}

text should not contain any "}", unless it is part of a $latex$ block. In this case, latex should not contain any "$".

Holes inside latex blocks are not handled correctly at the moment. As a workaround, create multiple smaller latex blocks and wrap each in a hole.

Image Deletions

Due to an issue with invisible overlays, images inside cloze-holes are not shown correctly during review if the image link directly follows the opening {{ .

Adding spaces around the image link fixes this problem, e.g. {{ [[file:my_image.png]] }} .

LaTeX in Cloze Deletions

LaTeX code in cloze delections can't contain a }} , to work around this limitation, insert a space between the braces.

Example: \frac{1}{\sqrt{2} }

Compact Cards

For cards without a "Back" heading, the headline text is considered as the front, the main text as the back.

This is useful for cards with a short front text, e.g. when learning definitions of words.

Defining Own Card Types

To define a custom card type, you need to implement three functions:

  • (...-init) to initialize a heading as a flashcard of this type, setting up the cards properties & review data. Should be marked as (interactive) .
  • (...-setup position) to setup position of the card for review
  • (...-flip) to flip the card
  • (...-update) to update the review data of the card, e.g. if a new hole is added to a cloze card

All of these are called with (point) on the cards heading.

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