Extra Fields

The text found in the note filter: field is extracted and analyzed by AnkiMorphs. AnkiMorphs can then place information about that text into dedicated fields on your cards.

Note: The first time you select an extra field you have to do a full sync upload to AnkiWeb. If you have a lot of cards (500K+), then syncing might become a problem. Read more about it on the Anki FAQ.

The fields contain the following:

• am-unknowns:
  A list of the morphs that are still unknown to you that was found in the text

• am-unknowns-count:
  The number of unknowns found

• am-highlighted:
  An HTML version of the text that highlights the morphs based on learning status

• am-score:
  The score AnkiMorphs determined the card to have

Using am-unknowns

Adding this field to your card-template can give you a quick way to see which morphs are unknown to you. The example above uses the following card-template:

Using am-unknowns-count

This is useful if you want to sort your cards in the browser based on how many unknowns they have.

Using am-highlighted

AnkiMorphs can automatically color-code morphs based on their learning status, i.e., how well you know them.

I recommend only putting the highlighted-field on the back of cards. The reason for this is that, in order to get the best results, you want your SRS experience to simulate real life as much as possible. When reading in real life, you aren’t going to be told which words you know and which you don’t. So, it makes sense to have your sentence cards reflect this.

Here is a simplified example of some of the changes you need to make to your card template to get the results shown above. Notice that the am-highlighted-field is substituted for the Japanese-field on the back of the card.

You also need to add the following to the Styling section (choose any color you want):

[morph-status=unknown] { color: blue; }
[morph-status=learning] { color: #8bb33d; } /* light-green */
[morph-status=known] { color: green; }

.nightMode [morph-status=unknown] { color: red; } 
.nightMode [morph-status=learning] { color: #ffff99; } /* yellow */
.nightMode [morph-status=known] { color: #8bb33d; } /* light-green */

You can pick and choose among these; if you only want unknown morphs to be highlighted, and you don't care about dark-mode, then only adding the first line would be enough.

It’s also possible to use background-color:

[morph-status=unknown] { background-color: #f7867e; } /* red */
[morph-status=learning] { background-color: #ffff99; } /* yellow */
[morph-status=known] { background-color: #49f53e; } /* green */

.nightMode [morph-status=unknown] { background-color: #b74d4d; } /* red */
.nightMode [morph-status=learning] { background-color: #ccad50; } /* yellow */
.nightMode [morph-status=known] { background-color: #27961f; } /* green */

Furigana and other ruby characters

The am-highlighted field supports ruby characters such as furigana. To have furigana displayed properly, you have to prepend furigana: to the field in the card template, e.g:

{{furigana:am-highlighted}}

You also have to have the Ignore content in square brackets preprocess setting activated.

Note: This does not always work flawlessly. The known problems section has more details on how to fix ruby character highlighting problems.

Duplicate Audio Problem

When the back of a card also has an audio field and not just the front, then both might play after each other when you press Show Answer on the card. To prevent both playing you can do the following:

1. Go to deck-options
2. Scroll down to the Audio section
3. Activate Skip question when replaying answer

Using am-score

This field is really just for debugging purposes, so I recommend that you don't add this field to your card-template to make it visible--it would just end up making your cards more cluttered.