Clozolkor

Enhancing "cloze one by one" script found in TheAnking's template (on his website or drive). I think the original idea/script is by user "iTraveller" in the official anki forum. Oh and don't ask why this name. The current status of this project is : I am using it daily. It is definitely stable as it does not require addons or complicated coding. It is just basic javascript added to a cloze template.

If you make a modification to this code, please tell me so that I can (maybe) implement it for everyone else! Thank you!

As time went on, I added a lot of things to suit my needs and decided to share it with the community.

How does it work?

Basically, you create your cards just like regular clozes but using this template. Then, when reviewing, you can use shortcuts (or buttons that appear on mobile) to reveal the cloze one by one. That means that if you have several c1 occlusion you will see them sequentially, same for c2 etc. You can also show letter by letter or word by word what's underneath the cloze as a hint. Lots of things a customizable, and I should be reactive on github to provide support. Oh and don't be surprised : by default the card auto flips the front if you have not used a hint in your cloze (like Y in {{c1::X::Y}}). I think that this behavior can interfere with the "time to answer" statistics of your cards, as well as addons that use this like speed focus.

Features

• complete : multiple shortcuts (show, hide, hint, etc), it can show hint of what's hidden underneath a cloze, letter by letter or word by word. Don't cheat though.
• customizable : lots of settings to suit your special needs
• cross platform : supports all computer OS's, ankidroid, and maybe iOS too but couldn't test it on my own.
• compatibility : it supports multiple cloze : if you add several c1 you can reveal them one by one but if you add c2, c3 and so one anki will automatically add new cards that reveal c2 one by one and c3 one by one. Basically like regular cloze so you can just convert all your cloze to this template and it will work the same.
• fast : autoflip to answer sided is the cloze doesn't contain hints
• memory enhancing? : if your card's ease drop too low, the card will switch to the font Sans Forgetica. No idea if it works but interesting to try.
• With blur: A shortcut allows to unblur gradually the cloze to hint you gradually.
• Auto mode: One button press and you'll see the your cloze content open letter by letter automatically. Allowing you to read and remember at the same time.
• elegant : shows the tags and decks on top in a nice and non-distracting way
• handy : displays the ease and the state (learning, new, etc) on top (desktop) or in a little button box (mobile)
• non-bloating : it's not an addon but just a regular javascript-enhanced note template!
• show all the hidden clozes as a fixed size block, this way you can't use the size of the deletion as a hint
• automatically show the "links" (like {{hint:Sources}} when you showed all the clozes
• hide images that are inside clozes, leaving the size (or not) as a hint
• buttons, handy for mobile (one to reveal one cloze, one to reset, one to show everything, one to show a character hint)
• automatically scroll to the next cloze if it is cloze to the edge of the frame
• more to come (see todo below), this clozing system is the basis of my workflow, but I don't have that much time to code.
• Up to date tested successfully on anki 2.1.54
• Nightmode friendly In nightmode, the images are automatically colour inverted. Clicking on it inerts it back and forth.
• Easy to debug Errors are displayed in a field on top (otherwise invisible) and on android eruda is used to invoke a js console.

demo gifs

from the following card (and yes the deck is ZZ::Perso::BrainDB) :

TODO / Planned features / known issues (some are really simple, don't hesitate to help!)

• you can store hint from the front of the card into globalThis, this can be used to show hints when the back is displayed.
• maybe hide front card very early and show it only if necessary
• split the script into multiple sub scripts. That would help maintenance and "sharability" to have a "decks and tags section", "cloze section", etc. It would make it really easy to add parts to other template, for example adding the nice tag bar to the image occlusion template.
• see if it's possible to add a {{cx:: field that would always be clozed, no matter the card number (edit: pretty sure it's actually very easy by adding a html field and treating it like a cloze)
• html buttons should scroll with the page instead of being shown on top and bottom (ie always appear at the same place), with something like position:fixed/sticky

Known issues

• None?

A few important notes, please read

• I have a limited (but increasing) understanding of anki coding, don't expect anything much from me, but PR's are welcome and don't hesitate to open an issue if you want anything. Also, I use Linux and ankidroid, I can't test on other devices. Also, I strongly recommend using the addon Symbols as you type, the author very nicely added html insertion, this way for example typing ::c:: is replaced by }}{{c1:: which makes it a ton faster to use this addon. Same goes for ::c2:: etc. You can see a list of my suggested macros here. I hope something will come out of this thread.

• The .js extension of the template files is there only to help with syntax highlighting while editing the files, it's more accurately html containing <script> parts.

• I try to stay on the latest stable anki version (currently 24.04). I also make sure the version works on AnkiDroid as it it what I use, and I tend use the latest stable release. I don't usually test it on windows, macOS or iOS, and am counting on your feedbacks for this. I had the opportunity to test it on 2.1.61 and it works fine..

• The shortcuts and many more things can be edited in the template, inside the script.

• If you have a very slow device, especially on mobile, turning nightmode off seems to speed up the card loading

• If you want to allow clozolkor to automatically use the Sans Forgetica font if the ease is low or if the card is a leech, you have to install the font yourself on all your devices. Otherwise clozolkor works fine but won't use this font.

If you like the idea, these addons will interest you

• Closet addon seems to be able to do everything that I did but... better? Haven't tested it yet.
• Cloze overlapper addon by the Great Glutanimate, unfortunately not (yet?) ported to 2.1
• Cloze (Hide All) addon
• Cloze Anything, the creator (as opposed to me) knows how to code in js. I intend to add a "reveal one by one" feature as you can read here. I learned about this addon only after spending time on this. His project looks better for a lot of use cases for I still intend to use my code for quite a while.
• anki-wrapper seems promising for cloze handling

How can I get this?

1. read this page thoroughly, it's well worth a few minutes of (y)our time
2. optionnal: install the refocus card when reviewing addon, the additional card field addon as well as clickable Tags and restart anki
3. Optional : as explained above : installing the addon Symbols as you type will greatly increase your efficiency. Check out my macros in the Clozolkor_js folder
4. Copy the contenf of back.js and front.js to the cloze notetype you want to enhance
5. check out the settings inside the front and back template, it is very likely that your shortcuts won't match my keyboard. Also remove any mention of the many fields I added to my notetype that you might not need.
6. now, when you create your own clozes : just select this template instead of the old "cloze" note type
7. Optional : convert all your past cloze into this template : it works the same, just better
8. optional : install the Sans Forgetica font
9. that's it, if you have any issue, open an issue, I'll gladly try and fix it for everyone else, yes even typos.
10. If you make a modification to this code, please tell me so that I can (maybe) implement it for everyone else! Thank you!