Anki cloze question

[chillingpanda]

I've been using Anki for a few of my classes and have had great success with it, but have mostly stuck to basic cards since that's what was recommended until you get the hang of it. This semester I decided to start implementing cloze deletion and have been using this for most of my cards now. But I feel like I'm clozing too much? Example, I'm taking microbio this semester and have made A's on both exams so far, so I definitely believe in Anki and the power of space repetition.

A few examples of a card I had made:

{{c1::Giardia intestinalis}} causes {{c2::giardiasis}}, an {{c3::acute gastroenteritis}}

{{c1::Giardia}} are {{c2:: diplomonads}}, meaning they have {{c3::two nuclei of equal size}}

{{c1::Fecal-oral transmission}} are when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the {{c2::intestines}} and leave the body in {{c2::feces}}. Resulting in {{c2::water pollution}}

I may be overthinking this, but what do you guys think, am I clozing way too much?

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[DrHart]

As I created more and more Anki cards while studying for the MCAT, I found myself clozing more and more. I think @mehc012 is our resident Anki genius. But from my personal experience, I've found that clozing is way more effective for long term retention. If you can remember 2 or 3 keywords that associate with a specific topic, you can usually piece together all the inbetween.
Example is your 3rd example. Your clozing is great by breaking apart "fecal oral transmission" and key points about it "grows in intestines, leaves in feces, leads to water pollution."

This is much easier (imo) to work with than:
side 1: Define oral fecal transmission
side 2: when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the intestines and leave the body in feces. Resulting in water pollution

Imagine trying to remember every piece of that definition after a 15 day period... much harder than recognizing a few key words. Just my 2cents 😉

 

[chillingpanda]

As I created more and more Anki cards while studying for the MCAT, I found myself clozing more and more. I think @mehc012 is our resident Anki genius. But from my personal experience, I've found that clozing is way more effective for long term retention. If you can remember 2 or 3 keywords that associate with a specific topic, you can usually piece together all the inbetween.
Example is your 3rd example. Your clozing is great by breaking apart "fecal oral transmission" and key points about it "grows in intestines, leaves in feces, leads to water pollution."

This is much easier (imo) to work with than:
side 1: Define oral fecal transmission
side 2: when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the intestines and leave the body in feces. Resulting in water pollution

Imagine trying to remember every piece of that definition after a 15 day period... much harder than recognizing a few key words. Just my 2cents 😉

Totally agree, it's just annoying that in the back of my mind I'm overthinking if I clozed too much or if I clozed enough. I'm striving for a good grade in my class, so I definitely don't want to miss any information that maybe on the exam

 

[DameJulie]

@DrHart @chillingpanda Anki new-user here. Could you guys elaborate on how to use this "cloze" function? It sounds cool and I would like to incorporate this into my MCAT studying.
Hear people talk about "cloze" all the time with MCAT-prep Anki.
I know it's "blocking words so you can fill in the blank" but don't know where to start. Thanks!

 

[mehc012]

@DrHart @chillingpanda Anki new-user here. Could you guys elaborate on how to use this "cloze" function? It sounds cool and I would like to incorporate this into my MCAT studying.
Hear people talk about "cloze" all the time with MCAT-prep Anki.
I know it's "blocking words so you can fill in the blank" but don't know where to start. Thanks!

It functions as shown in OP's post. Basically, all text surrounded by {{c#:: }} will be selectively removed to form a question. The '#' portion is an actual numeral (1,2,3, etc) and all bracketed parts with the same number are removed at once. Thus, in their last example, you would get
__________ are when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the intestines and leave the body in feces. Resulting in water pollution

As well as

Fecal-oral transmission are when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the _____ and leave the body in _____. Resulting in ________

As for using it...clozing is a powerful tool. Once I got good at making cards, 95% of them became Cloze cards. It is, however, also the easiest format with which to make poor cards - cards with answers that are too long, questions that are nonspecific, etc. For example, in the Note of OPs which I pulled out as an example, "Resulting in water pollution" is a pretty nonspecific sentence - you could follow 'resulting in' with nearly anything, and it's not directly relevant to the rest of the sentence. What happens if you remember 'intestines' and 'feces', but forget 'water pollution' because it was vague and nonspecific? Did you get the card right or wrong (hint: if you get any part of an answer wrong, you should mark it wrong.)

So I'd say that eventually you should find yourself making mostly Cloze cards, but making strong, useful Basic cards is good practice for figuring out exactly what information you need to pull out and how to put only specific answers with explicit, direct prompts. THEN you can Cloze in a very powerful way. If you find yourself missing or misinterpreting a card a lot, REWRITE it. Don't keep beating your head against the wall or keep going until you teach yourself the quirk of the question instead of the actual answer. Your cards should have as little contextual context as possible...if you have 5 microbe cards, keeping the formatting and sentence structure similar between them means you're remembering facts, not phrasing.

 

[chillingpanda]

It functions as shown in OP's post. Basically, all text surrounded by {{c#:: }} will be selectively removed to form a question. The '#' portion is an actual numeral (1,2,3, etc) and all bracketed parts with the same number are removed at once. Thus, in their last example, you would get
__________ are when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the intestines and leave the body in feces. Resulting in water pollution

As well as

Fecal-oral transmission are when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the _____ and leave the body in _____. Resulting in ________

As for using it...clozing is a powerful tool. Once I got good at making cards, 95% of them became Cloze cards. It is, however, also the easiest format with which to make poor cards - cards with answers that are too long, questions that are nonspecific, etc. For example, in the Note of OPs which I pulled out as an example, "Resulting in water pollution" is a pretty nonspecific sentence - you could follow 'resulting in' with nearly anything, and it's not directly relevant to the rest of the sentence. What happens if you remember 'intestines' and 'feces', but forget 'water pollution' because it was vague and nonspecific? Did you get the card right or wrong (hint: if you get any part of an answer wrong, you should mark it wrong.)

So I'd say that eventually you should find yourself making mostly Cloze cards, but making strong, useful Basic cards is good practice for figuring out exactly what information you need to pull out and how to put only specific answers with explicit, direct prompts. THEN you can Cloze in a very powerful way. If you find yourself missing or misinterpreting a card a lot, REWRITE it. Don't keep beating your head against the wall or keep going until you teach yourself the quirk of the question instead of the actual answer. Your cards should have as little contextual context as possible...if you have 5 microbe cards, keeping the formatting and sentence structure similar between them means you're remembering facts, not phrasing.

So would you say clozing more is better? i generally do {{c1::}} {{c1::}} more than {{c1::}} {{c2::}}

 

[mehc012]

So would you say clozing more is better? i generally do {{c1::}} {{c1::}} more than {{c1::}} {{c2::}}

No, I would say that writing your sentences such that there is a clear, correct, answer is key before you start deleting any words. Bonus points if you do so without adding triggers.

 

[DameJulie]

It functions as shown in OP's post. Basically, all text surrounded by {{c#:: }} will be selectively removed to form a question. The '#' portion is an actual numeral (1,2,3, etc) and all bracketed parts with the same number are removed at once. Thus, in their last example, you would get
__________ are when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the intestines and leave the body in feces. Resulting in water pollution

As well as

Fecal-oral transmission are when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the _____ and leave the body in _____. Resulting in ________

As for using it...clozing is a powerful tool. Once I got good at making cards, 95% of them became Cloze cards. It is, however, also the easiest format with which to make poor cards - cards with answers that are too long, questions that are nonspecific, etc. For example, in the Note of OPs which I pulled out as an example, "Resulting in water pollution" is a pretty nonspecific sentence - you could follow 'resulting in' with nearly anything, and it's not directly relevant to the rest of the sentence. What happens if you remember 'intestines' and 'feces', but forget 'water pollution' because it was vague and nonspecific? Did you get the card right or wrong (hint: if you get any part of an answer wrong, you should mark it wrong.)

So I'd say that eventually you should find yourself making mostly Cloze cards, but making strong, useful Basic cards is good practice for figuring out exactly what information you need to pull out and how to put only specific answers with explicit, direct prompts. THEN you can Cloze in a very powerful way. If you find yourself missing or misinterpreting a card a lot, REWRITE it. Don't keep beating your head against the wall or keep going until you teach yourself the quirk of the question instead of the actual answer. Your cards should have as little contextual context as possible...if you have 5 microbe cards, keeping the formatting and sentence structure similar between them means you're remembering facts, not phrasing.

THANK YOU for writing such detailed explanation. I will give this a try, and hopefully I won't trick myself in the sentence writing.

 

[chillingpanda]

No, I would say that writing your sentences such that there is a clear, correct, answer is key before you start deleting any words. Bonus points if you do so without adding triggers.

Can you provide examples. I get what you mean, but when I'm making my cards, I think the cards I made are pretty clear, but when someone else reads it that may not be the case.

 

[chillingpanda]

No, I would say that writing your sentences such that there is a clear, correct, answer is key before you start deleting any words. Bonus points if you do so without adding triggers.

From the examples I provided in the first post, can you cloze them how you would if you were the one making the cards

 

[mehc012]

Can you provide examples. I get what you mean, but when I'm making my cards, I think the cards I made are pretty clear, but when someone else reads it that may not be the case.

It's more about whether you'll find the card clear in a few months when you forget them.

Personally, I like my cards to be clearer than usual probably because I type all of my answers...meaning that if I block out chunks of words I will probably get the card wrong. I think my memory is fuzzier when I don't have to type out the word correctly. I also usually try not to have more than 2 cards made per Note unless it's a really dense set of info.

The first one is probably fine, it's just kind of annoying to have a cloze that wants 'Giardia' when you literally have the word 'giardiasis' showing, and vice-versa. Those feel kinda wasted because you're not even making yourself remember anything, really.

The second one is again fine, it gets you to explore "Giardia Class ⇄ diplomonads" "Diplomonads feature ⇄ 2 equal nuclei" and "Giardia feature ⇄ 2 equal nuclei". Again, I tend not to like a ton of context cues, though, so I would probably lump "diplomonads=2 equal nuclei" and just remember "Giardia ⇄ diplomonads = 2 equal nuclei"
{{c1::Giardia}} are classified as {{c2:: diplomonads}} because they have {{c2::two equal nuclei:: defining characteristic}}.

Also note that this example is fine for Giardia, but if you were doing, say, Trypanosoma and you cared about knowing multiple kinetoplastids, your first Cloze would not have a specific answer.

The third one is I think the one that actually bugged me.
{{c1::Fecal-oral transmission}} are when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the {{c2::intestines}} and leave the body in {{c2::feces}}. Resulting in {{c2::water pollution}}

There are only little things, but for me they add up. First, that 'are' would cause me to get the card wrong everytime because it's not grammatically consistent with the answer. I guess that's just me, though. I actually like the way you split out 'intestines' vs 'feces'. But that last bit, "Resulting in water pollution" is a sentence fragment with no clear answer. There's no reason why feces automatically results in water pollution, so the relationship you're remembering isn't really accurate. It just feels like something pulled from a slide to cram memorize without actually clearly defining the Front:Back relationship you are trying to ingrain into your memory. This card would look something like "Result of fecal oral transmission" → "Water pollution" which I don't think would be a strong card. There's definitely a relationship to water pollution, but it's not the one the card makes.

I guess that's the trick for Clozing. You should make the cards knowing which relationships you are exploring. What would be on either side of this card if you were making it as a Front/Back card? If that relationship isn't clear or important, if it wouldn't make a strong Basic card, it's likely not a strong Cloze card. And, if you're getting the answer from how the card is written or other Clozes that are revealed during the question, it's not as educational. Are you remembering "Giardia ⇄ acute gastroenteritis", which is your real goal, or just that "Giardia ⇄ giardiasis", which is kind of a gimme?

Overall these are pretty good cards, tbh. And I'm sure they're working for you. Again, I'm picky because I type my answers and I don't like wiggle room in my Anki cards or I'll let myself off the hook. Just don't be afraid to update these if they start making less sense to you when you are answering them 3mo down the line and they don't feel right once you've forgotten why you made them this particular way.

 

[chillingpanda]

It's more about whether you'll find the card clear in a few months when you forget them.

Personally, I like my cards to be clearer than usual probably because I type all of my answers...meaning that if I block out chunks of words I will probably get the card wrong. I think my memory is fuzzier when I don't have to type out the word correctly. I also usually try not to have more than 2 cards made per Note unless it's a really dense set of info.

The first one is probably fine, it's just kind of annoying to have a cloze that wants 'Giardia' when you literally have the word 'giardiasis' showing, and vice-versa. Those feel kinda wasted because you're not even making yourself remember anything, really.

The second one is again fine, it gets you to explore "Giardia Class ⇄ diplomonads" "Diplomonads feature ⇄ 2 equal nuclei" and "Giardia feature ⇄ 2 equal nuclei". Again, I tend not to like a ton of context cues, though, so I would probably lump "diplomonads=2 equal nuclei" and just remember "Giardia ⇄ diplomonads = 2 equal nuclei"
{{c1::Giardia}} are classified as {{c2:: diplomonads}} because they have {{c2::two equal nuclei:: defining characteristic}}.

Also note that this example is fine for Giardia, but if you were doing, say, Trypanosoma and you cared about knowing multiple kinetoplastids, your first Cloze would not have a specific answer.

The third one is I think the one that actually bugged me.
{{c1::Fecal-oral transmission}} are when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the {{c2::intestines}} and leave the body in {{c2::feces}}. Resulting in {{c2::water pollution}}

There are only little things, but for me they add up. First, that 'are' would cause me to get the card wrong everytime because it's not grammatically consistent with the answer. I guess that's just me, though. I actually like the way you split out 'intestines' vs 'feces'. But that last bit, "Resulting in water pollution" is a sentence fragment with no clear answer. There's no reason why feces automatically results in water pollution, so the relationship you're remembering isn't really accurate. It just feels like something pulled from a slide to cram memorize without actually clearly defining the Front:Back relationship you are trying to ingrain into your memory. This card would look something like "Result of fecal oral transmission" → "Water pollution" which I don't think would be a strong card. There's definitely a relationship to water pollution, but it's not the one the card makes.

I guess that's the trick for Clozing. You should make the cards knowing which relationships you are exploring. What would be on either side of this card if you were making it as a Front/Back card? If that relationship isn't clear or important, if it wouldn't make a strong Basic card, it's likely not a strong Cloze card. And, if you're getting the answer from how the card is written or other Clozes that are revealed during the question, it's not as educational. Are you remembering "Giardia ⇄ acute gastroenteritis", which is your real goal, or just that "Giardia ⇄ giardiasis", which is kind of a gimme?

Overall these are pretty good cards, tbh. And I'm sure they're working for you. Again, I'm picky because I type my answers and I don't like wiggle room in my Anki cards or I'll let myself off the hook. Just don't be afraid to update these if they start making less sense to you when you are answering them 3mo down the line and they don't feel right once you've forgotten why you made them this particular way.

Ahh, that helped a lot! Thank you for the great explanation

 

[deleted647690]

It's more about whether you'll find the card clear in a few months when you forget them.

Personally, I like my cards to be clearer than usual probably because I type all of my answers...meaning that if I block out chunks of words I will probably get the card wrong. I think my memory is fuzzier when I don't have to type out the word correctly. I also usually try not to have more than 2 cards made per Note unless it's a really dense set of info.

The first one is probably fine, it's just kind of annoying to have a cloze that wants 'Giardia' when you literally have the word 'giardiasis' showing, and vice-versa. Those feel kinda wasted because you're not even making yourself remember anything, really.

The second one is again fine, it gets you to explore "Giardia Class ⇄ diplomonads" "Diplomonads feature ⇄ 2 equal nuclei" and "Giardia feature ⇄ 2 equal nuclei". Again, I tend not to like a ton of context cues, though, so I would probably lump "diplomonads=2 equal nuclei" and just remember "Giardia ⇄ diplomonads = 2 equal nuclei"
{{c1::Giardia}} are classified as {{c2:: diplomonads}} because they have {{c2::two equal nuclei:: defining characteristic}}.

Also note that this example is fine for Giardia, but if you were doing, say, Trypanosoma and you cared about knowing multiple kinetoplastids, your first Cloze would not have a specific answer.

The third one is I think the one that actually bugged me.
{{c1::Fecal-oral transmission}} are when microorganisms transmitted in water grow in the {{c2::intestines}} and leave the body in {{c2::feces}}. Resulting in {{c2::water pollution}}

There are only little things, but for me they add up. First, that 'are' would cause me to get the card wrong everytime because it's not grammatically consistent with the answer. I guess that's just me, though. I actually like the way you split out 'intestines' vs 'feces'. But that last bit, "Resulting in water pollution" is a sentence fragment with no clear answer. There's no reason why feces automatically results in water pollution, so the relationship you're remembering isn't really accurate. It just feels like something pulled from a slide to cram memorize without actually clearly defining the Front:Back relationship you are trying to ingrain into your memory. This card would look something like "Result of fecal oral transmission" → "Water pollution" which I don't think would be a strong card. There's definitely a relationship to water pollution, but it's not the one the card makes.

I guess that's the trick for Clozing. You should make the cards knowing which relationships you are exploring. What would be on either side of this card if you were making it as a Front/Back card? If that relationship isn't clear or important, if it wouldn't make a strong Basic card, it's likely not a strong Cloze card. And, if you're getting the answer from how the card is written or other Clozes that are revealed during the question, it's not as educational. Are you remembering "Giardia ⇄ acute gastroenteritis", which is your real goal, or just that "Giardia ⇄ giardiasis", which is kind of a gimme?

Overall these are pretty good cards, tbh. And I'm sure they're working for you. Again, I'm picky because I type my answers and I don't like wiggle room in my Anki cards or I'll let myself off the hook. Just don't be afraid to update these if they start making less sense to you when you are answering them 3mo down the line and they don't feel right once you've forgotten why you made them this particular way.

So I have pretty much make my entire mcat anki deck (several thousand cards, many of them are cloze deletion format), and I guess I made them all incorrectly.

Psych/soc is probably the section I've made the most cards for, and the way I made most of them was like this:

I used the reddit psych/soc document with khan academy video notes. I watched the khan videos, and followed along with the corresponding note sheet (about 300 page long word document). Then I'd copy and paste important segments of the text with key terms into a card and make it like this

Light enters pupil and goes to retina, which contains {{c1: rods}} and {{c1:cones}}
There are 120 million {{c1:rods}}, for night vision
Light comes in, goes through pupil, and hits {{c1:rod}}. Normally, {{c1:rod}} is turned on, but when light hits turnos off
When {{c1:rod}} is off, it turns on a bipolar cell, which turns on a retinal ganglion cell.


I thought that I'd go through the cards and see it presented like this with a bunch of blanks, and then I'd have to mentally fill them in.....I guess that's not effective

 

[mehc012]

So I have pretty much make my entire mcat anki deck (several thousand cards, many of them are cloze deletion format), and I guess I made them all incorrectly.

Psych/soc is probably the section I've made the most cards for, and the way I made most of them was like this:

I used the reddit psych/soc document with khan academy video notes. I watched the khan videos, and followed along with the corresponding note sheet (about 300 page long word document). Then I'd copy and paste important segments of the text with key terms into a card and make it like this

Light enters pupil and goes to retina, which contains {{c1: rods}} and {{c1:cones}}
There are 120 million {{c1:rods}}, for night vision
Light comes in, goes through pupil, and hits {{c1:rod}}. Normally, {{c1:rod}} is turned on, but when light hits turnos off
When {{c1:rod}} is off, it turns on a bipolar cell, which turns on a retinal ganglion cell.


I thought that I'd go through the cards and see it presented like this with a bunch of blanks, and then I'd have to mentally fill them in.....I guess that's not effective

I mean, if it works for you, it works for you. I'm willing to offer advice on Anki cards to people who ask for it, but at the end of the day I'm just a random M1 who has used Anki a lot and has a style that works for me. If you've found something that works for you, use that. If you haven't and you want some advice, I can tell you what worked for me and hope that it also ends up working for you. I'm not going to try to tell you that you're doing it 'wrong' if you're getting the results you want for the amount of input work you want.

 

[ed*26]

I just started using anki this semester, and it's really revolutionized my retention (especially for anatomy). I've also found myself relying on cloze deletions more and more -- it's true for me that remembering facts within the context of key words works for me much better than forcibly separating facts like the basic card does.

However, I've also found that you really do need to be thoughtful in how you're using your deletions. In my opinion, for every deletion you should be forcing your brain to recall or think through something, and that something should usually be the most important point of the fact. In my opinion, a card like this may not achieve that.

Light enters pupil and goes to retina, which contains {{c1: rods}} and {{c1:cones}}
There are 120 million {{c1:rods}}, for night vision
Light comes in, goes through pupil, and hits {{c1:rod}}. Normally, {{c1:rod}} is turned on, but when light hits turnos off
When {{c1:rod}} is off, it turns on a bipolar cell, which turns on a retinal ganglion cell.

After seeing this card a few times you're going to remember that all of the answers in the last half of the card are the same, so once you see "night vision" or "120 million" you're going to fill in "rods" for all of them. The facts that are most important to the last half of the card is all the stuff about when rods turn off/on and what happens after, which you haven't tested at all. Yes, if you read each card thoroughly you may pick it up, but the entire point of anki is active recall. I'd probably make everything after "light comes in" into a second card:

The photoreceptive cells in the eye are called {{c1::rods and cones}} and are located in the {{c1::retina}} --> this way you also have to recall how many photoreceptive cells there are

Rods are typically in an {{c1::"on"}} state until {{c1::light hits them}}, causing them to {{c1::turn into a bipolar cell}} then {{c1::turn into a retinal ganglion cell}} ---->I would maybe also add "for night vision" in the extra field or add it as another card or cloze deletion. Hopefully you also have knowledge of what bipolar and retinal ganglion cells are, otherwise this knowledge is pretty useless
​

See the difference? In the first you're only being asked to remember the word "rod," and in the second you're remembering a bunch more about what rods do and their characteristics. With splitting up the knowledge, you're also teasing out what you've learned vs. what you need more exposure to.

The one downside to anki is that it is pretty easy to make unhelpful cards; I find myself constantly revising old cards as I become more aware of how I learn and what anki can do. If you have the time I recommend reading through the anki user manual, which talks a lot about how to make effective cards. It can be time-consuming to make really relevant cards (more so than reading through lectures and do problem sets, in my opinion), but the payoff has been super worth it

 

[deleted647690]

Thanks guys. When you make a card, for example.

The {c1::yellow brick} road had a {c2::golden} horse on it {c3::that} ran to eat an {c4::apple}

This makes 4 separate cards, right? How do you make it so that all 4 cards will show up when you review the deck? Or do custom study?

When I tried this, it would only show me 1 out of the 4 cards, and then end the session. I could hit "unbury" to get the other cards, but I had to do that for a separate session for each card. I don't really understand that function, but I would like to make it so that I can see all 4 cards in one session. Is there a setting for this?

 

[mehc012]

Thanks guys. When you make a card, for example.

The {c1::yellow brick} road had a {c2::golden} horse on it {c3::that} ran to eat an {c4::apple}

This makes 4 separate cards, right? How do you make it so that all 4 cards will show up when you review the deck? Or do custom study?

When I tried this, it would only show me 1 out of the 4 cards, and then end the session. I could hit "unbury" to get the other cards, but I had to do that for a separate session for each card. I don't really understand that function, but I would like to make it so that I can see all 4 cards in one session. Is there a setting for this?

It's how your Deck Options are setup...all 4 of those Cards are derived from one Note, which makes them Siblings. Your Deck Options likely has 'Bury related cards' checked, which means it won't show you Siblings in the same review session. Uncheck that and you should be good.

However, doing so will make the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Cards you see that day less valuable as review, since you'll have just reminded yourself of the answer a few minutes earlier.

 

[deleted647690]

It's how your Deck Options are setup...all 4 of those Cards are derived from one Note, which makes them Siblings. Your Deck Options likely has 'Bury related cards' checked, which means it won't show you Siblings in the same review session. Uncheck that and you should be good.

However, doing so will make the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Cards you see that day less valuable as review, since you'll have just reminded yourself of the answer a few minutes earlier.

I have a big single MCAT deck with ~4000 cards in it. Whenever I want to study a certain topic, I make a custom study session that pulls out cards with that specific subject tag. When I make this custom study session, I usually want to just see all cards

I don't really understand how to best use anki I guess. I suppose most people do the thing where it only shows you certain cards on certain days, but I don't really know how to use that

 

[deleted647690]

It's how your Deck Options are setup...all 4 of those Cards are derived from one Note, which makes them Siblings. Your Deck Options likely has 'Bury related cards' checked, which means it won't show you Siblings in the same review session. Uncheck that and you should be good.

However, doing so will make the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Cards you see that day less valuable as review, since you'll have just reminded yourself of the answer a few minutes earlier.

WHen I do a custom study session (which I need to use because I have one large deck, and I want to just study cards of a specific tag) I do not have the "bury related cards" option

 

[mavric1298]

I highly suggest reading this over;

https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules

examples 1 and 2 are okay - single bits of info at a time
example 3 is starting to get into too much info territory. I limit the number of concurrent (IE c1 c1) facts if at all possible

Another helpful hint, is use the "hints" feature. A common trap people get into, especially when your cards have long intervals, is you don't know exactly what the card is asking.

so something like {{c1::Giardia}} are {{c2:: diplomonads}}, meaning they have {{c3::two nuclei of equal size}} - the first cloze isn't well formed. There are many diplomonads, so with just the first part being blanked out, you have no real way to know its giardia other then memorizing the card itself rather than the info. A better card would be something like this (Not a great card, just throwing hints in to show you as an example)

Giardia are {{c2:: diplomonads::type of flagellate}}, meaning they have {{c3::two nuclei of equal size:: defining characteristic}}