Add Items
For an introduction on how to add items, see this screencast. The interface has changed a little since the screencast was made, but is basically the same.
If the window is mostly blank, you have accidentally hidden the middle area. Move your mouse to the line near the top of the window and the cursor will change. Drag down. If you are missing the status area down the bottom, move your mouse to the bottom of the window and drag up.
Required and unique fields
By default, Anki won't let you add items if certain fields are blank, or if they contain the same information as in another card. Yellow fields indicate fields that are blank, and red fields indicate fields which duplicate information. You can change what Anki will complain about in the ModelProperties#Fields dialog.
Cards
Anki allows you to generate different "cards" for the data you put in - for example, you might want to quiz yourself from city to country and country to city when reviewing capital cities of the world. Click the cards button on the top right to change this.
Built in Tags
Separate tags with spaces.
Reading generation
Anki automatically generates a reading when you input Japanese or Chinese text. If Anki can't work out which reading is correct, it will display multiple readings. Double click the correct one to remove the others.
Shortcuts
Tab |
change between fields. |
Ctrl+Enter |
add the current card. |
Esc |
close the dialog. |
Ctrl+b |
bold |
Ctrl+i |
italic |
Ctrl+u |
underline |
F7 then F7 |
apply currently selected colour |
F7 then F6 |
choose previous colour |
F7 then F8 |
choose next colour |
F7 then F5 |
select a colour |
F2 |
preview |
F3 |
add image |
F4 |
add sound |
F9 |
apply ClozeDeletion |
Ctrl+1,2,etc |
enable/disable card model 1, 2, etc |
Shift+Alt+m |
change model |
Shift+Alt+e |
edit current model |
Ctrl+l then l |
LaTeX |
Ctrl+l then e |
LaTeX equation |
Ctrl+l then m |
LaTeX math environment |
Ctrl+F9 |
edit HTML |
On a Mac, Alt is the Option key.
