Fill in the Blank takes sentences from a note and hides the words that matter, so you practice coming up with the exact term rather than recognising it. You can write an exercise yourself on every plan, Free and Sync included. Having the AI make one from the note is part of the Plus, Pro and Lifetime plans, like AI flashcards and quizzes, on Lifetime through your own API key. You can edit any exercise, the AI's included.
Creating an exercise
Open the note. On desktop, type / and choose Fill in the Blank, or choose it from Apps in the toolbar. On mobile, open the apps group on the toolbar above the keyboard and choose Fill in the Blank. A pink card appears in the note. Click or tap it, pick a difficulty and choose Generate exercise. Easy hides one word in each sentence, Normal one or two, and Difficult two or three, and less obvious ones. You get ten sentences from the note and from what the PDFs in it say, each with a few wrong words for the word bank. Create by hand, under Generate exercise, opens an empty exercise to write instead.
You can close the dialog or the sheet while it is made. The card says Working on the exercise until it is ready, and Grape tells you when it is, see Get notified when the AI is done.
Writing one by hand
On Free and Sync, the dialog or the sheet the card opens leads with Create by hand, with a small Let AI make it from your note link under it that says what the Plus and Pro plans add. On Plus, Pro and Lifetime, Create by hand sits under Generate exercise.
Write a sentence, then click the words you want to hide in the line under it, or tap them on mobile. Hidden words next to each other make one blank. Under Also accept, a blank can take other answers it should count as right, and each sentence can have its own wrong words for the word bank, separated by commas. Leave those out and the word bank borrows the answers of your other sentences. A sentence needs at least one blank and can have up to five, and an exercise holds up to thirty sentences. Choose Add sentence for the next one, and Save when you are done, the tick at the top of the sheet on mobile.
Typing the answers
The exercise shows one sentence at a time with a box in each blank. Type the missing words. On desktop, Enter or Tab moves to the next blank, and Enter on the last one checks the sentence. On mobile the return key does the same. Hint shows the first letter of the blank you are in.
Using the word bank
Switch from Type to Word bank over the sentence when you would rather pick the words. The answers and a few wrong words stand under the sentence. Click or tap one to put it in the next empty blank, and click or tap a filled blank to give its word back. Grape remembers which way you answer on each device, and you can switch in the middle of a sentence.
Checking
Check marks every blank. A green blank is right. Capitals, accents, punctuation and a leading the, a or an do not count, and neither does a small typo: one wrong letter in a word of five letters or more, two from nine letters, with two letters swapped counting as one. When Grape forgives a typo, the blank shows the right spelling and a line under the sentence says what it accepted. A red blank shows what you wrote struck out, with the answer beside it. Numbers have to be exact, though three counts as 3. Skip fills in the answers and counts the blanks as skipped.
Results
After the last sentence, the results count blanks rather than sentences: your accuracy, and how many were right, wrong and skipped. Under them are the sentences you missed, with their answers marked. Practice the missed ones goes through only those sentences again, Restart starts over, and Shuffle, in the corner while you play, mixes up the order.
Editing an exercise
Open the exercise from the card in the note and choose Edit, the pencil at the top of the dialog on desktop or of the sheet on mobile. The sentences open in the same editor, whether you wrote them or the AI did: reword a sentence, hide a different word, or add answers to accept and wrong words for the word bank. Editing works on every plan.
In Review
With spaced repetition on, from Settings under Review or with Turn on spaced repetition at the foot of the exercise, every sentence joins Review as a card of its own, the way flashcards and quiz questions do. It comes back as the sentence with its blanks to fill, and once it is checked you grade how it went, with Grape suggesting a grade from how the blanks went.
The other study tools
The same note can become flashcards to drill, a quiz to test yourself or a mind map to see its shape, and a slide deck when you have to present it. All of them can be made by hand too.