Son of a motherless goat …. arg. I hit the ‘Submit’ button by accident.

The one thing I didn’t like about Anki compared to Smart.FM is that you didn’t have the option to type an answer. I learn by typing and can retain better when I do type. So this was a huge blow. but you can turn this feature on per deck in Anki.

Sorry if this was covered before, but meh, its neato. I will also say be careful messing around with the deck, you can really screw something up if you aren’t careful. This walk through is true for /any/ Anki deck not just TextFugu decks.

1. Open the deck in question
2. Click Settings >> Deck Properties
3. Click “blah [###] facts” and click “Edit”
4. Select the option that has the larger number of facts (Should display ‘Forward’ and ‘Reverse’
– In this case Hiragana has 104 facts so I select that)
5. Click ‘Card Layout’
6. Locate the third option from the bottom, it should be set to ‘Don’t ask me to type the answer’.
7. Change this option to “Compare with field ‘Back’”
8. Close all of the windows and dance

I found it is much easier for me to be honest with myself if I have a huge red mark glaring in my face :)

Enjoy!