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Highlight, extract, and cloze

Turn a passage you’re reading into cloze Items in a single reading pass.

Before you begin

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  • Open a Topic in the Reader or Review so you have reading material in front of you. To import one first, see Import a web page.
  • This guide covers the reading-to-recall workflow. For the full deletion grammar — hints, multiple blanks, edge cases — see Cloze syntax.

Steps

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  1. Select the text you care about inside the Topic. A floating Selection Toolbar appears above the selection with Extract and Cloze.

  2. Create an Extract to keep narrowing. With text selected, press X (or click Extract). This creates a child Extract you can keep reading and selecting from — it inherits the parent’s Source reference and images. Extracts let you carve a long passage down before you commit to a flashcard. For the reasoning behind this layered workflow, see Incremental reading.

  3. Make a cloze Item. Select the words to hide and press Z (or click Cloze). Kioku wraps the selection as {{c1::…}} in a new Item and creates a Cloze Card.

Add hints and multiple clozes

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Selecting text and pressing Z always produces a single {{c1::…}} deletion. To add a hint or split a passage into several blanks, author the Cloze in the editor instead:

  1. Go to Browse (press 3) and select the Topic or Extract.
  2. Choose Create Cloze (press C) to open the card editor in cloze mode.
  3. In the rich-text body, select text and click Mark Cloze (c1) (or press F6). Each click wraps the selection and increments the cloze number.
  4. Use a new number for each blank you want as a separate Card; reuse the same number for blanks that should be hidden together.
  5. Click Create Card.

Hints are added as a trailing ::hint in the markup, for example {{c1::Paris::city}}. See Cloze syntax for the complete grammar.

Result

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Each distinct cloze number becomes its own Card; the Cards sit under a single Item element, which is scheduled in your review Queue and graded by FSRS. Your Extracts stay in place, so you can keep reading from where you left off.

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