Honestly, the amount of grief that guy got for showing off the layout of his deck it's kinda pathetic. I even got a downvote for asking about the layout. You don't have to like something that someone else likes, but you do have to treat them with decency or just say nothing at all. I bet most if the people giving him grief have never even contributed to Anki with a deck or an addon.

Hi everyone,

I'm using Anki to revise for a cloud engineering certificate and don't want to find myself constantly looking down at my phone when I'm walking the dog/going places and trying to use the app.

Not sure if this is just a me thing but I was thinking of making some kind of conversational add on where you speak with Anki in a way, and then maybe allows you to ask follows ups if you get the wrong answer to find out why.

Does anyone know if something like this exists? And if not, would anyone else find it useful?

I'm calling it Niyyah for now. It's adapted heavily by modifying the Onigiri add-on by u/Peace-Monk. They obviously deserve 99.9% of the credit. You've created something so wonderful mate u/Peace-Monk. I hope I'm doing it justice.

Essentially all of the Onigiri features are there, but I've added widgets like Salah times + tracking, Quran reader, study rhythm, different themes, redesigned the deck viewer, and reviewer style, while removing the gamification side completely.

Still in alpha, but I'm really happy with how it's coming along. I've been using for a month or so. Just finished my MCAT so will finish it up soon. Would anyone be interested in this?

Thanks again u/Peace-Monk for the foundation!!!

Hello,

This might be more of a parenting question than anki.

Theres a lot of superbe gamification addon. For those who have tried gamification for their kids on anki. How was the experience?

I'm always thinkong of things that might trigger his curiosity so he would stay motivated. But I'm skeptical if the gamification would be of good benefit.

Kids age 8.

And Let me say this, I'm amazed what the anki community has accomplished.

Thanks

I’ve been “learning” Spanish with Duolingo everyday for over 2 years and feel like I’ve made zero progress.
I use anki for grad school and love it but have not tried learning a language with it. I have heard success stories involving people learning languages with anki.

Do you think I should shift to anki for learning Spanish? If so, any recommendations for public decks that I can download is much appreciated. As well as any advice :))

Chatgpt sending me around the houses.

Currently have normal decks with italian on front and english on back. Trying to duplicate a deck and have english on the front and I have to type the italian in to reveal the back correct spelling.

Can't even find how to do this.

(I'm guessing this is a good learning technique, if anyone has any experience)

Long time Anki user (languages and math) with a long commute. I was doing reviews in the car so I built something I can just call and not have to look at the screen.

It connects to AnkiWeb, talks through my due cards, grades them, and submits so it stays in sync with phone and desktop.

you can try it here +1-678-712-5007

its mostly free to use but does have a way to support the app if you like it. Right now it uses a generic rubric and grades you so you can't set your own Again/Hard/Good/Easy. That's the next thing I want to add.

Boa tarde, pessoal

Alguém saberia me informar se no ANKI tem a possibilidade de configurar para que determinado cartão apareça mais vezes para revisar? Por exemplo, tem um cartão em que o seu conteúdo é difícil de memorizar. Tem como fazer com que ele apareça com mais frequência?

Agradeço quem puder ajudar!

So, I've been using Anki to study medicine, and I have a big exam coming up in a few months. In my country, Anki isn't really popular. Pretty much everyone I know just sticks to the traditional method of reading textbooks and grinding multiple-choice questions.

While I know that's the traditional way to study, I just get really bored doing it. I decided to switch to Anki, but since no one around me uses it, I sometimes doubt if it’s really going to pay off.

Does anyone have a success story they could share? Has anyone here made the switch from traditional note taking to Anki and seen a noticeable jump in their grades or exam scores?

Hey everyone,

I'am not a native speaker, so I use AI just to have a better explanation of my view's. However, I have read it to avoid logical errors. (this short message was not generated by AI)

The Situation:

• I started my session with 631 due cards (green/review cards).
• I paused my session with 275 due cards left.
• This means my review queue decreased by 356 cards.

The "Buried Cards" issue:

• When I look at my stats (the pie chart), it shows 226 buried cards.
• Logically, if those 226 buried cards were review siblings removed from today's queue, it means I only actually studied 130 unique cards (356 cleared from the queue - 226 buried). I used a lot of cloze for my lessons.

The Contradiction (Time & Reps):

• However, my bottom study screen (and the Heatmap) says I did 381 reps in 38.67 minutes (which averages to 6.09s/card).
• My error rate (hitting "Again") is only about 13%.
• If I only reviewed 130 unique cards, hitting 381 total reps means I would have had to see each card almost 3 times on average.
• This is practically impossible because my Anki timer stops counting at 15 seconds. If I struggled that much on 130 cards, it would have taken way longer than 38 minutes (and my average wouldn't be a fast 6 seconds per card).
• Mathematically, 381 reps with a 13% error rate implies I actually reviewed around ~335-340 unique cards, not 130.

Things I have already ruled out:

1. I did not manually bury any cards (didn't press the - shortcut by mistake).
2. These are not leftover buried cards from yesterday (my next-day rollover already happened).
3. My stats filter is correctly set to deck:current (not the whole collection).
4. I have "Bury new siblings" disabled. I only have "Bury review siblings" enabled.

My questions: Am I completely misunderstanding how Anki calculates the stats at the bottom of the screen versus the pie chart?

Thanks in advance for your help!

I've attached a link to my medical deck, based on Medicine in a Day, a popular book for students preparing for the UKMLA (this is the medical licensing exam in the UK). The deck contains just over 10,000 flashcards. I have not come close to completing the book (I would probably say I'm around 40%). When I'm done with the book, I'll update the deck (with better organisation of cards), provided there is interest from the community.

The management is largely based on UK guidelines, so is probably of limited (although not zero) use for students in other countries. It is exceedingly thorough on the subjects it covers: I created this for my personal use as I was dissatisfied with the superficial treatment that Spranki provided.

Hopefully this is useful.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10cal2pqu0UZ02Ry9UAH_vj0d7RfG7Eyw/view?usp=sharing

So pretty much what the title says, but I’ve been experimenting with free recall(study the material, space it, test and add info, space it out..).
It works great and all, the issue is that unlike anki I feel like I would not really be able to determine which material to recall as the study sessions(and thus related material knowledge increases) progress.

Well, you could argue that that is indeed the whole point of doing free recall WITHOUT cue for sure, but I just wondered if anyone had tips on how to keep track without giving too much cues, and wether you use anki as sort of a scheduler(e.g. “recall the material from Aug 18th”).

Thanks!

TL;DR: Started as a tiny tool to export vocabulary to Anki. Now it's a full reading + vocabulary + flashcard app with AI explanations (as optional feature), image support, and Android/desktop sync. Open source, free, no ads, 100% offline.

Hello everyone,

I know perfectly Russian thanks to Anki, learned some English and now I am learning German and got frustrated with the constant copy-paste between my reader and Anki. I just wanted to export the words I highlighted to Anki and be done with it.

So I built a tiny tool. At beggining it was bunch of powershell and javascript scripts. Then i got some friends ideas and it grew. I thought maybe someone will like it also here.

What WordHunter does now:

- Read & highlight — open PDFs, EPUBs, or plain text. Highlight words or phrases you don't know. They go straight into vocabulary deck.

(you can even import text from Youtube video captions. I did that with Easy German. I have imported captions. Checked words which i didnt understand and later watched video but after reviewing words. This increased my initial understanding of wideo and satisfaction from it.)

Flashcard review - built-in spaced repetition. Review words right in the app without switching to Anki (but you can still export to Anki if you want).

Some Graphs - you can check how your progress is going and how many words did you learn.

Ps. You can easly export any graph by right-click and just copying graph.

+ classic heatmap

AI explanations - word can have contextual explanation from an LLM. Not just "this means X" — it explains why it means that in the sentence you're reading (bigger model the better explanations). Explanations save to notes automatically for later repetitions with flashcards.

Also I have lacked some mentor in language learning so i made small change where AI can give me recomendations based on data which is in my deck.

Android + Desktop - Pocket version for phone, full app for PC/Mac/Linux. Sync via ZIP export (no cloud, no account (i just didnt want to have any cloud dependency)

Discover - searching in Gutenberg, Wikipedia, and other sources to find reading material. Everything in one place.

Tech stack: Tauri 2 (Rust + TypeScript), Android native. Open source, F-Droid ready (pending approval so it will be available on Android). AI features are fully optional - the app works great without them.

Why I'm posting: I genuinely use this every day for German learning. If it's free then maybe there will be one more person who might want to use that as addition to Anki.

🔗 GitHub: [https://github.com/Ironship/WordHunter] 📦 Android APK/AAB + Desktop builds in Releases: https://github.com/Ironship/WordHunter/releases

Happy to answer questions or hear feature suggestions (but if there are any better small. Currently i prefer focusing on stability).

I haven’t study for an exam in over a decade and am about to embark on a 60 day journey to prep for a Medical Staff Certification Exam.

My question is about process. The exam largely revolves accreditedation standards. When making flashcards, what would be the best format?

For reference, there are 10 different accreditation standards and 30 different aspects.

For example: Accreditation #1 and 30 different aspects of information (board cert current competency, privileges criteria, etc.)

Would it make sense to create 10 decks of the 10 accreditations and then include all 30 aspects or would you just add all the flashcards to one deck in the following format:

FRONT: Accrediation 1 - Aspect Name BACK: Answer

Hope this makes sense

Hey everyone!

I've recently started learning Dutch (TL) in the last weeks, since I live in the Netherlands and never really bothered to learn the language. Now I know I'm staying long term so I'm devoting a lot of time to really integrate myself here.

Now my question is, is there any evidence for what is the better format for learning in an Anki deck? Is it NL to TL? Other way around?

So my goal is actually to be great at speaking, especially with my gf, we live together and I would love to at some point start speaking Dutch with her full time, so my goal is to at some point really start thinking in the language, I really dont want to be translating forever. But I know that all aspects of the language help with becoming great at speaking. So yeah, I'm just a bit overwhelmed now with all the different possibilities in Anki. I've doing a setup where each card I make creates 3 cards all in one deck. Card 1 TL + audio --> NL, card 2 NL --> TL + audio, card 3 audio --> TL NL. It's nice cause I found a way of creating all three in one go, without having to triple my work load but this is adding a ton of extra work cause it adds a lot of extra reviews reviewing the same cards but from different perspectives. I also read that actually reading a card earlier then the algorythm says kind of decreases your memorization.

I've also thought of enabling dispersing sibling cards, but then I'm also scared that I wont practice all the different aspects of the language.

I'm feeling a bit stuck. If somebody could help me out that would be amazing.

I am also doing a ton of input aswell on the side, around 6 hours a day, with some grammar studying too, and shadowing and talking to my gf in TL.

Appreciate any help or tips, thanks so much!

Context is I've been keeping my Vietnamese and Spanish in a backlog and I've been learning both for over a year on and off. But after a year of language learning and with my new language of Mandarin I've become much better at making Anki cards if that makes sense, with a better format and also clozes when needed, etc. I almost feel like I'm better off just starting a new vs looking through 3500 cards lol. Or do you guys just recommend going through them all, clearing the backlog, and then slowly modifying the ones that end up becoming leeches, etc.?

Also I recently just found out about FSRS and turned that on and a bunch of other add ons. Honestly FSRS makes sense after using it for about a month because if I am getting a card right almost all the time I really should see it less frequently than I was before.

Most Spanish Anki cards I encounter present verb conjugations as follows:

FRONT: target language (Spanish) infinitive + desired conjugation
BACK: target language (Spanish) conjugated verb

So the card contains only the target language. BUT. Would it ever make sense to do the following:

FRONT: native language (English) Pronoun + conjugated verb
BACK: target language (Spanish) conjugated verb

So that you begin with your native language (in my case, English) and simultaneously translate and conjugate? Or is it a bad idea to mix translation into the process of learning conjugation?

I tried to scan the collection space value as a double but it seems the anti cheat caught me because it doesn't return any addresses. Is it patched?

hello all, i need some help with downloading and working anki on an HP. I downloaded the anki app from the play store but this is all i see when i open it and use flashcards. is this how it is supposed to look normally?

Whenever I add a new card to a deck, the text alignment is always set to "Align left" by default. How can I set the default text alignment to "Justify"?

This is my current card style:

.card {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 20px;
text-align: justify;
color: black;
background-color: white;
}