Reviewing Cards

Starting Out

When you first start using AnkiMorphs, you will probably come across many variations of Interjections (e.g. Aaah!, umm..., Wow!) and other uninteresting words. Just tag them as known and move on. When you reach a critical mass of known morphs, usually around 50–100, is when you will start encountering useful sentences.

Stuttered names or words might accidentally produce morphs that don't make any sense in the context, and you should probably suspend these cards or mark them as known if there are many of them.

AnkiMorphs might seem error-prone at first, like mixing up two (seemingly) different morphs, but the more data it accumulates, the more accurate it becomes, so try not to get discouraged! It becomes much more enjoyable to use after you know 100+ morphs.

It is a good idea to frequently Recalc when you are first starting out, maybe every 10 cards or so, to make sure you get the best possible new cards.

Encountering Morphs You Already Know

If you already know the morphs in a card you are presented, then use the hotkey K (for Known) to add the am-known-manually tag to the card and skip it. The morphs on this card will be considered known the next time you recalc.

Encountering Cards You Don't Understand

There will also be times when AnkiMorphs says a card is 1T, but you aren’t able to understand it. There are two reasons this may occur. The first is that, due to incorrect parsing, AnkiMorphs thinks you know a word that you don’t. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to remove morphs from the AnkiMorphs' database. Luckily, this shouldn’t happen very often. When it does, your only real option is to suspend or delete the card.

The other scenario is that you aren’t able to understand a sentence deemed 1T despite it indeed containing only one unknown morph. This is simply a fact of life when it comes to language learning. Sometimes you know all the words in a sentence, but still just can’t get what it means. It could be due to many things, such as one of the words having an alternate meaning you haven’t learned yet, or the grammar being too tricky for you to parse at your current level. Basically, although the sentence appears to be 1T, it’s actually MT. By definition, any sentence that’s truly 1T shouldn’t be difficult to understand.

Whenever this happens, it's best to either find a better card or suspend/delete theccard and move on. The whole point of AnkiMorphs is to help you make fast progress by collecting low-hanging fruit. If you spend time mulling over things that are above your level, you’re defeating the purpose of the add-on.

Finding A Better Card

If you want to learn a different card instead of the one you are presented, then press the hotkey L to open the browser and see all the other 1T cards in your collection with the same unknown morph. If you want to see all 1T and MT cards you can use Shift+L.

From here you can right-click your preferred card and select Learn Card Now. You can also find the same options in the AnkiMorphs menu at the top of the browse window.

The card will then go to the top of the new cards-queue. If you have other due cards, then they might show up first.

Encountering Suitable 1T Cards

If you come across a new card with only one unknown and it seems reasonable, treat it like any other new Anki card and answer it accordingly. For more information on handling new cards, refer to the Anki studying guide.

Skipping Cards

There are three scenarios where AnkiMorphs will automatically skip a card:

You have selected the Skip cards with only known morphs-option the in the card-handling settings:
If the next card has one of the 'known' tags, then it will be skipped.
You have selected the Skip cards that have unknown morphs already seen today-option in the card-handling settings:
Say you have three cards: card1, card2, card3, all of which have the same unknown morph. After you have answered card1 then the cards card2, card3 will be skipped.
You have selected the ignore names found in names.txt-option in preprocess settings
Let's use the same example of three cards , card1, card2, card3. This time they all have the same unknown morph Alexander. If you use the Mark as name feature to mark Alexander as a name on card1, then the cards card2, card3 will be skipped.

Pre-skipping Cards

The skipping features mentioned in the section above only take effect when using Anki on desktop where the AnkiMorphs addon is activated. This can make it tricky to study new cards on mobile since there might be many cards right after each other that have the same unknown morph.

To get some of the same effects on mobile, we can instead "pre-skip" cards by selectively moving some of them farther back in the queue when we Recalc.

For more info read:

Card Handling: Shift new cards that are not the first to have the unknown morph

Right-Clicking Highlighted Text

AnkiMorphs adds some additional options to the Anki context menu (right-click):

Mark as Name:
The highlighted text will be added to the names.txt file, and the card will be skipped.
Browse in am-study-morphs:
This opens up the Anki Browse window with the search term:
```
 "am-study-morphs:{highlighted_text}"
```
This can be useful for finding cards you previously studied that contained the highlighted text as an unknown morph.

For example, you might have forgotten the nuances of the word repulse, but recall having studied it before, you can then highlight repulse, select this option, and the browse window will open with the search term:
```
 "am-study-morphs:repulse"
```