Layout
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The top area displays the search bar, tag selector and sort order.
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The middle area displays matching cards
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The bottom left area displays the fact corresponding to the last selected card
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The bottom right area displays card statistics corresponding to the last selected card
If you are missing the list of cards, or the editing section, you have probably accidentally hidden them. There is a divider between the list and the editing area that you can click and drag. If you have dragged it all the way down or all the way up, the other area won’t be shown. You can get it back by moving the mouse just underneath the button bar, or just above the bottom window border. The cursor will change, and then you can click and drag.
Searching
Type words in the search bar to find them in your cards. The following syntax is supported:
- dog
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search for dog in the fields of your cards. dog, doggy and underdog will all match.
- dog cat
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search for cards with the word dog and the word cat
- -cat
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search for cards without the word cat
- "the dog ran"
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search for the exact phrase the dog ran
- "-the dog ran"
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search for everything but the exact phrase the dog ran
- tag:animal
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search for cards with the tag animal
- -tag:animal
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search for cards without the tag animal
- tag:none
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search for cards whose facts have no user-added tags (the tags line is blank)
- tag:ani*
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search for cards with tags starting with ani, like animation, animal, etc.
- tag:*2*
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search for cards with 2 somewhere in them
- is:due
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search for cards that are due now
- is:delayed
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search for cards that would be due but are delayed because you saw another similar card
- is:new
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search for new cards
- is:failed
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search for failed cards
- is:rev
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search for normal review cards (not new, not failed)
- is:suspended
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search for cards that have been manually suspended
- is:leech
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show leeches
- expression:hello
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search for cards where hello is in the expression field. Surround the field name in double quotes if it has spaces.
- field:expression
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search for cards that have an expression field
- show:one
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limit matches to one card per fact
- cm:forward
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show only forward card template
- question:dog
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search for dog in the question
- answer:cat
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search for cat in the answer
The above can be combined for complicated searches. "OR" searching is not supported, as you can just conduct two searches and apply a new tag.
Wildcards are supported. Use "*" to mean zero or more characters, and "?" to mean one character. Searches have an implicit * at the start at end, so you can only use ? to match characters within a larger string - not to find fields with only one character for example.
You can prepend "-" to any search term in order to negate it. For example, to show cards where the Expression field is empty, use -Expression:_
Browsing Tags
This displays a drop down box of all your fact tags, card template names and model tags. Selecting an item will insert the search string into the search bar above.
Sorting
This controls the order Anki sorts matching cards.
The Card List
Drag the mouse or hold down the control key while clicking to select multiple cards at once. The background colour will change depending on the card.
- White
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A normal card
- Red
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See InactiveCards
- Yellow
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See SuspendedCards
- Blue
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See MarkedCards
The Current Fact
This area allows you to make updates to the information in your facts. See KeyTermsAndConcepts to understand how cards and facts are related.
Card Statistics
See CardStatistics.
Actions Menu
Add Tags
This option will add the specified tags to each fact you have selected. For example, you can select some cards, give them a tag of your choice, and then mark that tag as high priority in CardDisplayOrderAndPriorities. If you want to add more than one tag, separate it with a space.
Delete Tags
As above, but remove tags instead of adding them.
Suspend Cards
Suspend the selected cards. This will prevent them being shown for review until unsuspended.
Unsuspend Cards
Unsuspend the selected cards. It will not activate cards that have been automatically deactivated with Settings>Active Tags - to do that, use Settings→Active tags again.
Generate Cards
As described in KeyTermsAndConcepts, Anki allows you to generate more than one card for a given fact - for example, a card to study front to back, and another to study back to front. It uses card templates to do this.
Normally, you’d choose which cards you want in the AddItems screen. However, if you later decide you want to add other cards, you can do so by using this option.
Select the cards you want generated and click OK. The cards which are selected by default are the cards which are currently enabled in the model properties.
If a card already exists, it will be ignored. If a selected card would be missing a question or answer, it is not generated.
Change Model
This allows you to assign a card a different model and/or a different card template. For example, imagine you have a model "Russian", and another model "Computers", and you accidentally add some computer-related cards into your Russian model. You can use this option to move the cards back to the correct place. The progress of the cards is not reset.
Cram
See CramMode.
Reschedule
This option allows you to reschedule the progress of your cards.
There are two options:
- Reschedule as new
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This will reset the progress of the selected cards, and they go back into the new card queue.
- Reschedule with initial interval
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This will reset the progress of the cards, then treat them if they have been reviewed exactly once. You can choose a minimum and maximum interval, and cards will be distributed within that range.
The first option is useful if you have completely forgotten some material, and want to move it back to the new card queue while you work on other things. Note that for distributing decks to other people, this is not the best method. Instead, use FileExport and make sure include scheduling information is not selected. This will wipe the review history as well as the card progress.
The second option is useful if you have imported already-learnt material, and you want to start it off with higher initial intervals. For example, choosing 60 and 90 will give all the imported cards an initial interval of 2 to 3 months.
Delete
This deletes the selected cards.
Edit Menu
Select All
Select all displayed cards
Select Facts
Select all cards of currently selected facts. For example, if you have selected a front to back card, a back to front card will be selected too. You can thus use this option followed by Actions>Delete in order to delete all cards of a fact.
Invert Selection
Select all unselected cards, and deselect all selected cards.
Find and Replace
This option allows you to replace text in the cards you have selected. The regular expression option allows you to perform complex replacements. For example, given the following text on a card:
<img src="pic.jpg">
Searching for:
<img src="(.+)">
And replacing with the regexp:
\1
Will change the card to:
pic.jpg
A full discussion on regular expressions is outside the scope of this document. There are a number of tutorials available on the web. Please see http://docs.python.org/library/re.html for the particular format Anki uses.
Reverse Order
Reverse the order that items are displayed in. Anki will remember this option across sessions.