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Cloze

Fill-in-the-blank cards, and how one note becomes several.

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What & why

A Cloze card is a sentence with a blank the learner fills in. Instead of a separate question and answer, you write one piece of text and mark the words to hide. It shines when the sentence around the blank is what gives the answer meaning — a fact in context, a term inside its definition.

You mark a blank with {{c1::…}}. The c1 is the blank’s group; give different blanks c1, c2, c3 and each becomes its own review card. An optional extra field adds context that shows on the back.

The rule

Blank out the word worth recalling — not every word in the sentence. The visible text has to give a fair chance at the hidden one.

Bad → good

A real fact from the Science Facts catalog deck. Tap a card to reveal the answer.

Before
QuestionThe {{c1::mitochondria}} is the {{c2::powerhouse}} of the {{c3::cell}}.Tap to flip
Answermitochondria · powerhouse · cell

Too much hidden — nothing left to recall from.

After
QuestionThe {{c1::mitochondria}} is the powerhouse of the cell.Tap to flip
Answermitochondria

One meaningful blank; the sentence still supports the answer.

One note, several cards

This is the part that surprises new creators: a single Cloze note can expand into several review cards — one for each blank group. Write this once —

The three states of matter are {{c1::solid}}, {{c2::liquid}}, and {{c3::gas}}.

— and the learner gets three cards, each hiding one state while the others stay visible. That’s powerful, but it means your review counts grow faster than your notes. A deck of 30 Cloze notes with two blanks each is 60 cards to study. Plan the number of blanks on purpose; don’t scatter them and get surprised by the workload.

If you find yourself wanting many blanks in one sentence just to save typing, that’s usually a sign the material wants to be several Basic cards instead.

When it applies

Use Cloze when context carries the meaning: a date inside the event it belongs to, a term defined by the sentence it sits in, a step named within its process. Skip it when the answer could be several different words that all fit the blank — that ambiguity makes an honest pass/fail impossible, and a Basic card serves better.

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