You can reach the model properties by clicking the spanner/wrench in AddItems, or by going Settings>Deck Properties>Edit

General & Fields

General

Name

The name of this model in the model selector.

Tags

A space-separated list of tags. All cards of this model will be given these tags.

Minimum spacing

If you have a model with two cards:

• front -> back

• back -> front

then showing one directly after the other would not be useful - so Anki delays showing the second card. The default delay is 1 minute, as previous larger delays caused new users to assume Anki would never show them the other side of the card. You may want to increase this to ten minutes or more.

Minimum interval multiplier

As card intervals grow larger, the default spacing interval of 1 minute becomes insufficient. Once all cards of a fact have been answered, Anki instead looks at the interval of all cards, finds the lowest interval, and then applies a multiplier to the result. The multiplier defaults to 0.1.

For example, if you have two cards. One has an interval of 90 days, and the other has an interval of 30 days.

min(90, 30) = 30

30 * 0.1 = 3

So the cards will be spaced 3 days apart.

Media URL

If you want to see sounds and pictures when using Anki Online, you can upload your media to a website on the internet, and then put the location of the website here. See FrequentlyAskedQuestions#HowcanIsyncaudioandpictures.3F

Fields

Fields are the different pieces of data which make up a fact.

Prevent duplicates

Prevent adding two cards with the same contents in this field

Prevent empty entries

Prevent adding a card if this field is blank

Sort as numbers

sort this field as numbers in the card browser

Note: after adding a field, it will not appear on any of your cards until you add it to a card template.

Card Templates

Card models are used to make question/answer pairs for the information you add to facts. You can display any number of fields on the question side and answer side.

Enabling/disabling

Card models can be enabled or disabled. If a card model is disabled, a card will not automatically be generated when you add a new fact. Changing this setting will not affect the facts already in your deck. If you want that, you can manually generate a card later in the editor using Actions>Generate Cards, or you can manually disable the cards by deleting them or suspending them in Settings>Active Tags.

Name/tag

The name of the card model will be assigned to the card as a separate tag.

Question/answer format

This is a template for how questions or answers should be shown to you. It uses a special syntax like this:

%(Expression)s<br>
%(Reading)s

This syntax says 'display the field "Expression" on the first line, and display the field "Reading" on the second line'. The first '%' character and the last 's' character are important. Case also matters - "reading" and "Reading" are not the same.

If you're curious about the trailing 's', it's Python format syntax. No character except for 's' is useful.

You can use %(Tags)s to show the tags you've given a card, %(modelTags)s to show model tags and %(cardModel)s to show the card model name.

Note you must use '<br>' to add a new line. The desktop client will understand if you hit enter, but this will not work on other clients like Anki Online.

If you want to include a '%' sign in the text, you must write it twice: %%.

Finally, it's important to know that when you include a field in the model properties, it is wrapped in some formatting information. It is sometimes useful to get access to the text of the field without formatting - such as if you want to include your own HTML.

For example, take the Heisig deck available on File>Download>Shared Decks. It includes a link in each card to a website that has more information. One field in each fact is called "number". It has a number like "1" in it. In the template, there is a link to:

<a href="http://a-web-site.com/info/%(text:number)s">a link to %(text:number)s</a>

This will turn into a blue link like

"a link to 1"

Type in the answer

If you choose a field to compare to, Anki will ask you to type in the answer when reviewing, and compare your answer to the correct answer.

Hide question when showing answer

This option will hide the question when the answer is displayed. It is useful if the answer includes part of the question, or if you don't have much screen space.

Allow the answer to be blank

When this option is on, you can add cards even if there is nothing on the answer (or question) side of the card. If this option is off, Anki will not add cards that are missing an answer (or question).