Anki: find all notes with an empty field
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Gabriel Wyner recommends, in its Fluent Forever book, that each Anki note (card) has at least one image associated to it. This is intended to improve overall retention.
Back when I started my German Anki deck for language learning, I did not add any images. Now I find myself slowly backfilling my already existing notes with images. However, the more images I add, the harder it becomes to find notes without images.
Upon reading the Anki manual I figured out a way to find out which notes are still missing images:
- Open Anki.
- Open the deck you want to modify β in my case,
Languages::German. - Click “Browse”.
- Type in
deck:current "Front Example:".
“Front Example” is the name of the field of my note template wherein I add images; you should replace it with the corresponding one you use. This syntax isn’t intuitive at all. Initially I was trying something like -"Front Example:*".