Getting started with AnkiPro

Have you ever been in a situation where you were learning something and in a few months you realized you had forgotten most of it? AnkiPro helps you learn and not forget. It uses two most popular techniques to help you achieve this: active recall and spaced repetition. First you to break complex ideas into simple flashcards that you can easily memorize, and then the app schedules the cards showing them again to you on and off making sure you are not forgetting them.

1. Create flashcards

An important task when learning is to figure out what you want to remember. Breaking a fact down into a question & answer format forces you to understand the concept and make the information easy to remember. The Question and Answer pair is called a card and everything in the app is built around cards.

Use Fill-in-the-Blank (Cloze) Feature

About

The Fill-in-the-Blank feature (also known as Cloze) is a way to format your digital flashcards in AnkiPro to blank out essential pieces of information on the front side of the card. Upon revealing the back side, the hidden text becomes visible.

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Cloze groups

If you blank out more than 1 piece of information on a flashcard, it would result in the creation of an equal amount of separate cards.

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Hints

You can write a small hint to remind yourself what is inside the cloze when it is hidden during the learning process. To create a hint, enclose the wrapped text inside the blank in the "::" tag.

In learning mode, the hint will be displayed inside the cloze. When it’s revealed, the hint will be replaced by the text you initially blanked out.

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Check out this video tutorial to get a closer look into this feature: https://youtu.be/YaBWRYpgxe0?feature=shared

2. Structure cards with decks

A deck is a collection of cards. Decks help you to structure and study cards based on topics or classes. You can also structure decks by putting one deck into another and setting up different learning settings for each deck.