An alternative to puzzle?

[badlydrawnrob]

Marked as hard due to the step-by-step nature of a puzzle.
Every new card type adds a layer of difficulty and cognitive load for the user.

It might be a better idea to use a simple card, but a more complex offline puzzle, or question->answer, or drill. Mixed media such as videos and books, with a learning point in card form.

What do we want to achieve?

• Mixed media learning
• More than just recall
• Most of all — it should be FUN! to learn
• Grouping similar concepts (3 times, 3 ways)

If anyone is has examples or ideas, shoot me a reply :)

Multiple cloze fields?

• Allow multiple {{c1::cloze tags}} in Missing! cards? #111

Other fun puzzle examples?

Kind of like a crossword, or puzzle, or game — more interactive, engaging, but getting you to think on paper rather than memorising. Joining the dots.

• Go back and look at the original deck with the puzzle cards
• Look at other challenges people have created, such as this¹
• Other people have done some interesting things (like a quiz)²
  • Multiple choice can be handled very easily

Image occlusions?

I like the concept, but perhaps something analogue and simpler might work, such as:

1. Sketch out this cons concept
2. Did you get it right?

• Image occlusion is another option

Other alternatives?

• Problem solvers: sketch out the concept using a framework
• An alternative to Anki — Mochi cards
• Reverso also has some nice ideas (like dictionary modals)

Footnotes

1. There's a world of difference between memorising short answers, like early-stage Codecombat, or simple challenges, to narly problems like setting up a json api. For the latter, I'm not sure there's any straightforward way for memorisation as it's interleaved learning. ↩

2. This can be achieved in a far simpler way (see below). I still think javascript in Anki is unwise, as it can slow down page load and is prone to break. Also, multi-option quizzes add an overhead to adding cards. ↩

[badlydrawnrob]

I think for now, #50 might be a good route for this. As simple or complex as you want it to be.

[badlydrawnrob]

A checkbox example, which could be used for multiple select if needs be (use Github style markup to generate checkboxes with Pandoc)

- [ ] test
- [x] test 2

<ul class="task-list">
<li><label><input type="checkbox" />test</label></li>
<li><label><input type="checkbox" checked="" />test 2</label></li>
</ul>

[badlydrawnrob]

I think that multiple {{cloze:text}} fields would be problematic, as Anki complains if no cloze tags are assigned:

Empty cards with no cloze tags

Here's one card that has a field (the only cloze field) without a card. To delete it, you have to deselect the checkbox keep notes with no valid cards and hit delete. Otherwise the "empty" card will show up in your study deck as in the above images.