LK Cloze Note Type

An Anki add-on by LK that creates a ready-made cloze note type called LK-cloze, set up mainly for studying medicine. It gives you a dark card with a clean layout for the explanation material that goes with a cloze question. Everything about it is editable, so you can tailor it to your own subject and style.

Please read first

• This is an unofficial, independent add-on. It is not made, endorsed or supported by Anki, Ankitects or AnkiWeb.
• It is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, and the author accepts no liability for it. It has had limited testing, mostly on Windows with a recent version of Anki; macOS and Linux are untested.
• Back up your collection (File → Switch Profile → Backup, or Tools → Create Backup) before using it on a collection you care about.

What it does

Adds one item to Anki's Tools menu: Create LK-cloze Note Type.... Clicking it (and confirming) creates a new note type named LK-cloze. It does not change any of your existing notes or note types. If a note type with that name already exists, it does nothing.

The note type has these 8 fields, in this order:

| # | Field | Use it for | |---|---|---| | 1 | Content | The cloze text, for example The {{c1::mitochondria}} makes {{c2::ATP}}. | | 2 | Mnemonic | A memory aid for the fact being tested | | 3 | Extra | Any other useful information | | 4 | Lecture Notes | Explanation text from a course or textbook | | 5 | AAMC QID | A linked practice question (optional) | | 6 | UWorld QID | A linked practice question (optional) | | 7 | Source | One or more links, for example videos or articles | | 8 | ID | Free to use for your own IDs; not shown on the card |

On the back of the card, below the answer:

• Mnemonic shows as a section when it is filled.
• Extra, Lecture Notes, AAMC QID and UWorld QID each show as a button that expands to show the text when tapped.
• Source shows one link button per web address in the field ("Source", or "Source 1", "Source 2", ... if there are several).
• Anything you leave empty is simply not shown.

Install

1. In Anki: Tools → Add-ons → Install from file, and choose LK-Cloze-Note-Type.ankiaddon (or install it from AnkiWeb with its code).
2. Restart Anki.
3. Choose Tools → Create LK-cloze Note Type... and confirm.
4. Use the new LK-cloze note type when adding cards.

Requires Anki 2.1.50 or newer. If an install or delete fails on Windows with "file is being used by another process", close Anki and start it again while holding Shift (safe mode), then try again.

Make it your own

The add-on only creates the note type once. After that it belongs to you, and you can change it in Anki without this add-on:

• Rename or reorder fields (for example, change "AAMC QID" to "Practice Question"): Tools → Manage Note Types → LK-cloze → Fields.
• Change how the card looks (colors, fonts, spacing, buttons): Tools → Manage Note Types → LK-cloze → Cards, then edit the Front Template, Back Template and Styling. If you rename a field, also rename it in the Back Template, which refers to fields by name.
• Change what new installs get: edit notetype_def.py inside the add-on folder (field names, templates and styling) before creating the note type.

Notes

• Font. The card styling uses the Comfortaa font. The add-on includes it and, when it creates the note type, copies it into your media folder (_Comfortaa-Regular.ttf and _Comfortaa-Bold.ttf), so cards use it on every device you sync to. The leading underscore stops Anki from deleting the files as unused.
• Styling is stored in your note type. Updating this add-on later does not change the styling of a note type you already created.

License

The add-on code is under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt. Copyright (c) 2026 LK.

The bundled Comfortaa font is copyright 2011 The Comfortaa Project Authors and is licensed separately under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (fonts/OFL.txt).