On Sunday, March 17, 2013 5:54:21 PM UTC+1, Arno den Hartog wrote:
> It would be nice to have a card type that takes for example this Cloze text:
> 
> <b>Author:</b> [Kurt Vonnegut]
> 1949–2007
> <b>Novels:</b>
> [Breakfast of Champions]
> [Mother Night]
> [Cat's Cradle]
> [God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater]
> [Slaughterhouse-Five]
> 
> (For the record, I have not read all of Kurt Vonnegut's novels so it is an 
> arbitrary selection.)
> 
> Which produces cards such as:
> 
> Front:
> Cat's Cradle
> 
> Back:
> Author: Kurt Vonnegut
> 1949–2007
> Novels:
> Breakfast of Champions
> Mother Night
> [...]
> God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
> Slaughterhouse-Five
> 
> That is the exact same as Cloze cards but in reverse for use in memorization 
> of sets.
> 
> Another example for a use of reverse Cloze:
> 
> <b>Group 1</b>
> [Li] [Lithium]
> [Na] [Sodium]
> [K] [Potassium]
> [Rb] [Rubidium]
> [Cs] [Cesium]
> [Fr] [Francium]
> 
> Which lets one recall both name or symbol and other group members.
> 
> Obviously this could be achieved with lots of regular cards but that is too 
> much work.
> 
> For now I can extract Cloze cards to .csv then swap the columns and import to 
> get the desired cards.

So if the front side reads "Li", how do you know the answer is not going to be 
"Li, Be, B, C, N, O, F, Ne"? Providing heavy context to help you answer 
precisely (AND provide hooks to stick to your preexistent knowledge) makes 
sense, but guessing context from a datum seems absurd.

-- Jiří Paleček

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