Getting Started

1. ✍️ Write the card

   New cards can be created by clicking “Add” (keyboard shortcut: A) on the front page. Ensure that card type is set to “MalleusCM - Cloze (Malleus Clinical Medicine / Stapedius)”. If not your submission will not work.

   

   Type up the card and place the cloze deletions with keyboard shortcut Ctrl + ⇧ + C (Windows) or ⌘ + ⇧ + C (MacOS).

   Ensure you follow the Submissions Guidelines.

   For guidance on writing better cards see: Untitled.

   

2. 📝 Reference the card

   Fill in the Source field with a link an accepted reference and an access date. See Submission Guidelines for a complete list of acceptable resources. Consider using AMA (Vancouver) as the citation style - examples here: AMA: Getting Started - AMA 11th Referencing Guide - Library Guides at James Cook University (jcu.edu.au).

   

3. 🏷️ Tag the card
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   This is critically important. Failure to adequately tag your card will likely result in rejection.

   We have tried to make the process as straightforward as possible, and have recorded a video outlining the process here, as well as a written explanation underneath.

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   For cards using specific resources (e.g. eTG) there are further tagging requirements. See Specific Resources below.

   All cards must, at minimum, be tagged with at least one Subject Tag, one Rotation Tag, and a single Yield Tag. A card may fit multiple subject and rotation tags; it is fine to add these. Often this is done for you (e.g. Acute Otitis Media is tagged by the rotation tags: Cardiology & Paediatrics).

   Pharmacology, OSCEs, Clinical Guidelines, eTG guidelines and other categories have their own Additional Special Tags, which can be found as a separate tab in the Tags Database.

   We have tried to make the tagging process as straightforward as possible, and have recorded a video outlining the process, as well as a written explanation underneath.

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   Note that the video demonstrates creating a card from an eTG guideline. Note that our main Subject Tags database does not have all of our diseases linked to eTG, and therefore you may need to manually search for both the eTG guideline (if using as resource) as well as the associated disease page for the condition (and likely copy over the 10_Management terminal tag(s) from that page).

   How to Tag

   There are three ways to go about doing this:

   1) Malleus Anki Helper Method (RECOMMENDED)

   1. Install the Malleus Anki Helper Add-on linked here: Malleus Anki Helper Addon - AnkiWeb, as shown in the video below.

   1. Watch the video series below for details on how to use the plugin.

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   Note that some pages may be missing (especially when searching the eTG database) - if this is the case, please contact us and we will look at adding the page manually so it shows up in the add-on’s search window.
   2) Search Method

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   Watch the video below for a demonstration; otherwise we have a written guide underneath. Please note this while this method still works, in most cases we would encourage users to use the first method listed above when creating cards, by installing and using the Malleus Anki Helper Add-on due its ease of use. It also integrates directly within Anki saving the need to use a web browser.

   1. Simply click the search button at the very top right of the website and search for the disease you’re after (e.g. Acute Otitis Media)

      

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      Please note that when searching on Notion you can identify the relevant origin of the pages by the different icons.

      Most pages arise from the Subject Tags database, signified by the white stethoscope icon in the search (ie. Acute Otitis Media). If you are searching for a topic, rather than a specific disease (ie. Antenatal Care), you may come across a slightly different topic page, signified by the white info icon.

      The main difference between subject “disease” and “topic” pages is topic pages do not have terminal sub-pages (ie. 01_Epidemiology) like the disease pages, and usually (but not always) sit under *General tags. They are used to create cards on broad topics that do not fit neatly within individual single diseases (ie. Antenatal Care, Approach to the Seriously Unwell Child).

      Note that other pages from other databases (ie. eTG Complete Tags, Pharmacology) will also appear here… they each have their respective icon as well.

      As a general rule of thumb, if there is no icon on the page, it’s not a page you should be copying tags from (it is likely a parent page)!

   2. Open the page and find the particular subtag that best describes the card you are adding (e.g. aetiology).
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      Note the “multiple parents” means this disease page appears in multiple different subject areas (i.e. Cardiology and Paediatrics). Other details are available on this page for your reference, including status and last updated date.

      

   3. Click the copy to clipboard icon that appears when hovering over the tag
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      Please note that this will also copy over whatever other cards are relevant (e.g. the resources by rotation cardiology tag). This is to make it easier for you to add cards with all the correct tags. Other tags that might be included are Question Banks tags for questions relevant to the topic.

      

   3) Database Lookup Method

   1. Open the Tags Database and go to the subject tags section

      

   2. Unfold the topics until you find the disease you are looking for by clicking the triangular arrow head next to each topic
   3. Click on the title of the disease (or topic) you are after to open it in the middle
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      Note that most pages arise from the Subject Tags database, signified by the white stethoscope icon in the search (i.e. Acute Otitis Media). If you are searching for a topic, rather than a specific disease (ie. Antenatal Care), you may come across a slightly different topic page, signified by the white info icon.

      The main difference between subject “disease” and “topic” pages is topic pages do not have terminal sub-pages (ie. 01_Epidemiology) like the disease pages, and usually (but not always) sit under *General tags. They are used to create cards on broad topics that do not fit neatly within individual single diseases (ie. Antenatal Care, Approach to the Seriously Unwell Child).

      As a general rule of thumb, if there is no icon on the page, it’s not a page you should be copying tags from (it is likely a parent page)!

   4. Find the particular subtag (for disease pages) that best describes the card you are adding (e.g. aetiology). Click the copy to clipboard icon that appears when hovering over the tag.
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      Please note that this will also copy over whatever other cards are relevant (e.g. the resources by rotation cardiology tag). This is to make it easier for you to add cards with all the correct tags. Other tags that might be included are Question Banks tags for questions relevant to the topic.

      

   Specific Resources (Additional Special Tags*)

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   *Some cards may require additional tags beyond a Subject and Rotation tag. The following tags are examples of other scenarios whereby specific additional tags may be added.

   In addition to the default Subject and Resources by Rotation databses and tags when creating new cards, please click on the following links for the appropriate tagging structures for:

   • Yield (high, medium, low, beyond medical student level - see heading below)
   • Anatomy & Physiology (dedicated anatomy/physiology topics; mostly archived and replaced with subject-specific *General tags)
   • Clinical Investigations (for ABGs, ECGs etc.)
   • eTG Complete Tags (for relevant eTG topics which can also be linked directly within subject disease pages)
   • Guidelines (national and state-based guidelines)
   • High Yield Diagnosis (high-yield cards; spot-diagnoses based on pathognomonic investigation findings, history features etc.)
   • Risk Stratification & Diagnostic Scoring Tools
   • Mnemonics
   • OSCEs & Clinical Reasoning
   • Pharmacology (for all cards related to pharmacology or drugs in any way)
   • Question Banks (notably eMedici)
   • Textbooks (so far, T&OC’s Clinical Examination (8e), On Call: Principles & Protocols (ANZ), Mechanisms of Clinical Signs (2e), and Llewellyn-Jones Fundamental of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (11e) are complete databases with tags easily able to be copied and allow for cards to also map to certain key textbooks)
4. ⭐️ Suggest to AnkiHub

   An individual suggestion can be made by clicking “👑 Suggest a new note”

   

   Multiple new cards can be submitted from the browser by highlighting the cards, right clicking and selecting “AnkiHub: Bulk suggest notes”

   

5. 📝 Provide a rationale

   Provide a brief rationale for why you believe the submission should be accepted.

   

6. ⏰ Wait for approval

   The maintainer team will review your submission and you will receive an email if the submission is approved or rejected.

   You may receive a comment on a submission if there is a minor change to make; unfortunately you will not receive an email but you see messages in AnkiHub Community.

If you feel a card can be improved, is incorrect, or deficient in some way you can suggest an edit.

1. ✍️ Edit the card

   Cards can be edited during a review session with keyboard shortcut E, or from the browser. Edit the card as you see fit.

2. ⭐️ Suggest to AnkiHub

   An individual suggestion can be made by clicking “👑 Suggest a change”

   

   Multiple cards can be submitted from the browser by highlighting the cards, right clicking and selecting “AnkiHub: Bulk suggest notes”. Edits and new cards can be submitted simultaneously.

   

3. 📝 Provide a rationale

   Provide a brief rationale for why you believe the submission should be accepted.

   

4. ⏰ Wait for approval

   The maintainer team will review your submission and you will receive an email if the submission is approved or rejected.

   You may receive a comment on a submission if there is a minor change to make; unfortunately you will not receive an email but you see messages in AnkiHub Community.

Sometimes syncronisation through AnkiHub leads to errors or glitches within Anki. Some examples include: duplicate cards appearing in Browser, tags out of order or missing, or unused tags persisting.

To fix this, try the following as initial troubleshooting which will resolve the vast majority of these problems:

1. 📝 Sync with AnkiHub

   Click AnkiHub > Sync with AnkiHub on the Anki homepage.

   

2. 📝 Reset all local changes

   Click the ‘Reset all local changes to a deck’ button in the Browser under the AnkiHub drop-down menu.

   

3. 📝 Clear Unused Tags

   In the Anki Browser, click on Notes > Clear Unused Tags.

   

4. 📝 Check Database & Media for Errors

   Back on the main Anki page; hover over the ‘Tools’ dropdown menu and try the following:

   • Check Database
   • Check Media
   • Empty Cards

   

5. 📝 Delete Deleted Cards Locally

   Within the Anki card browser, click on the AnkiHub tag ‘Deleted Notes’ and hold CTRL+A (on Windows) to select all notes with this tag. This will select all notes that have been deleted from the deck and cannot be synced anymore, but still require your final deletion locally. Simply right click and hover over ‘Notes’ > click on ‘Delete note’. Alternatively, you can highlight over the cards and use the shortcut CTRL+delete (Windows). Then sync again with Anki.

   

• Most maintainers have joined the team as a result of their continuous help by commenting, liking/disliking, and suggesting consistently!
• If you would like to be a Malleus maintainer, please send a message in the Discord, or email president@malleus.org.au or hugh.fenton-white@malleus.org.au.