[10.19.2024] Other, AnKing-MCAT/AnKingMed, ID 2305524

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Just gotta use the empty card tool. :slight_smile:

Hey could you explain what the empty card tool is? Is this supposed to be an anki add-on that I need to download?

I say this because the only solutions I’ve ever had for this is suspending the “empty card” cloze itself!

The ‘empty card’ tool gets used when there is an empty card, straightforwardly enough. The short version is that, for whatever reason let’s say you have a card with a cloze 1, cloze 3, and cloze 4:

Maybe that was a typo, maybe someone mis-numbered, whatever it is. Anki isn’t going to know that someone goofed, and it’s still going to create a card for cloze 2. But, because there’s no actual cloze there, it’s not going to have anything in it. The card will be ‘empty.’

It doesn’t happen super often, and there are other considerations that can complicate it to some degree (which I can dive into if you’d like), but that’s the very short version.

The tool itself doesn’t require an addon; it’s a built-in feature to Anki (‘Empty Cards’):

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Please let me know if that answers your question, and if there’s anything else I can help with. :slight_smile:

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