Card layouts

Card layouts

With card layouts, you can manage the disposition of fields in cards. A deck can have one or several card layouts.

Having several card layouts allows you to retrieve knowledge from different pieces of information. For example, you can have a front and back side in one layout, and reverse them in another.

Each version of a card is called a card variant. It has its own study schedule.


Editing card layouts

  • To create a new layout, click New layout.
  • To edit a layout, click Edit below the layout you want to modify.

When creating or editing a layout, you can drag and drop fields to the front or back side of the card.

For text-based fields, you can also choose from a few styling options.

New deck dialog

Card layouts have two limitations:

  • The front side can contain from 1 to 5 fields.
  • The back side can contain from 1 to 12 fields.

Primary card layout

The primary card layout is the default layout used to display your cards.

There is always exactly one primary card layout in a deck. To delete it, you need to select a new primary layout first.


Activate or deactivate a card layout

When you activate a layout, it adds all the card variants to your reviews. Therefore, activating a layout increases the number of reviews to be scheduled.

When you deactivate a layout, it removes the card variants from the reviews. The cards' progress data is not deleted and will resume at the same stage if reactivated.

The primary layout can't be deactivated.