AnkiWeb addon 1827331674
Improves feedback on typed-answer cards by rearranging multiple correct answers, supporting optional and slash-separated alternatives, and grouping Indic combining marks for clearer differences.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
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| 2.1.0 | 25.03+ | 2025-03-18 |
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Converts Anki cards into interactive multiple-choice quizzes with up to five options, optional shuffling and explanations, colour-coded selected-answer feedback, image support, and customizable settings.
Creates and reviews single- and multiple-choice questions in Anki with an exam-style interface showing your selections, correct answers, color-coded feedback, and optional explanations.
Semantically evaluates typed Anki answers using multiple AI providers, providing a 0–10 score, improvement tips, review suggestions, configurable prompts, and multilingual feedback.
Accepts multiple correct answers for typed-answer cards, separated by slashes, marking a typed match correct and hiding the other valid alternatives.
Replaces cloze deletions with input fields on review, supporting multiple blanks, with instant color feedback, next-character hints, and customizable field styling.
Creates interactive drag-and-drop flashcards where you label images or sort items into categories, with instant feedback, shuffling, theme and layout options, across Anki Desktop, AnkiDroid and AnkiMobile.
Answer Set is an Anki add-on which gives better feedback for "type in the answer" style cards if there are multiple correct answers and improves support for Indic scripts.
If you try to have multiple answers in a "type in the answer" style card in Anki, you will run into some issues. For instance, if you had "depart, go, leave" as the answer but typed "leave, go" instead, you would get:
This makes it difficult to see which answers you got correct, and which you actually did get wrong. With this add-on, the "correct" answers are rearranged before showing the difference, and so only this would be shown:
This is particularly useful for language learning, since often there will be multiple words matching a definition or multiple definitions for the same word.
This add-on also makes it possible to mark certain words in an answer as optional by putting them in parentheses or square brackets, or to accept any one of a set of words within an answer by separating them with slashes. See here for more details.
For some languages such as Tamil (தமிழ்), the script requires combining characters to represent vowels. Here is an example of the diff that Anki gives by default when typing "திரமபு" (tiramabu) instead of "திரும்பு" (tirumbu):
Separating the combining marks from the letters that they attach to make it difficult to see what is actually wrong, so this add-on groups combining marks before showing the difference:
See this section of the README for a list of recent changes.
For more details about how to use the add-on (or to report bugs), see the GitHub repository.
Answer Set is an Anki add-on which gives better feedback for "type in the answer" style cards if there are multiple correct answers and improves support for Indic scripts.
To install, open Anki and go to Tools > Add-ons in the menu bar, then click
"Get Add-ons..." and enter this code: 1827331674
If you try to have multiple answers in a "type in the answer" style card in Anki, you will run into some issues. For instance, if you had "depart, go, leave" as the answer but typed "leave, go" instead, you would get:
This makes it difficult to see which answers you got correct, and which you actually did get wrong. With this add-on, the "correct" answers are rearranged before showing the difference, and so only this would be shown:
This is particularly useful for language learning, since often there will be multiple words matching a definition or multiple definitions for the same word.
This add-on also makes it possible to mark certain words in an answer as optional by putting them in parentheses or square brackets, or to accept any one of a set of words within an answer by separating them with slashes. See here for more details.
For some languages such as Tamil (தமிழ்), the script requires combining characters to represent vowels. Here is an example of the diff that Anki gives by default when typing "திரமபு" (tiramabu) instead of "திரும்பு" (tirumbu):
Separating the combining marks from the letters that they attach to make it difficult to see what is actually wrong, so this add-on groups combining marks before showing the difference:
If the "correct" answer contains ;, then ; will separate the answer choices
for rearranging. Otherwise, , will be used. This means that this:
a, b, c; d, e, f
Will be parsed into a, b, c as one answer and d, e, f as another. If you
want to use different answer choice separators, you can configure them in the
Anki add-on config page.
There are a few special features which can be enabled/disabled in the add-on config in Anki:
Additionally, there is an "Equivalent Strings" config option to treat certain words as equivalent when checking answers. For instance, you may want to treat "I am" and "I'm" as being the same. To see all available options, open the add-on config page in Anki.
For Anki 25.03+, this add-on is implemented using the
reviewer_will_compare_answer and reviewer_will_render_compared_answer hooks.
In older versions of Anki, it is implemented using monkey patching instead since
these hooks were not implemented yet.
The diffs between "given" and "correct" answer choices are rendered using a modified version of the Longest Common Subsequence, with a preference for grouping error regions together. It also has been modified to support "lenient validation", where brackets, text separated by slashes, and certain other characters are allowed to be missing from the given answer. Combining characters are grouped before finding the difference to improve support for non-ASCII text.
The answer rearranging algorithm uses the diff between "given" and "correct" answer choices to determine which correct answer is closest to which given answer for rearranging. The closest pair is grouped together first, then the next closest, and so on until there are no more pairs.
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If you find a bug, please open an issue in this repository describing the issue.