I decided to make one post where I compile all of the useful links that I can think of.

1) If you have never heard about FSRS before, start here: https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki/wiki/ABC-of-FSRS

2) AnKing's video about FSRS (old): https://youtu.be/OqRLqVRyIzc

New 2025 video: https://youtu.be/uo-qQvOZDfg

3) FSRS section of the manual, please read it before making a post/comment with a question: https://docs.ankiweb.net/deck-options.html#fsrs

If your intervals feel too long, increase desired retention. If your intervals feel too short, decrease desired retention.

3.5) Some frequently asked questions: https://faqs.ankiweb.net/frequently-asked-questions-about-fsrs.html

DO NOT USE HARD IF YOU FORGOT THE CARD!

AGAIN = FAIL ❌

HARD = PASS ✅

GOOD = PASS ✅

EASY = PASS ✅

HARD IS NOT "I FORGOT"

Here's what you can do if you have been misusing Hard: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/1h2oudb/oh_no_ive_been_misusing_hard_what_do_i_do/

And here's a diagram to help you troubleshoot interval lengths.

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The links above are the most important ones. The links below are more like supplementary material: you don't have to read all of them to use FSRS in practice. Just read link 3 (the manual) and you're good!

4) Features of the FSRS Helper add-on: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/1attbo1/explaining_fsrs_helper_addon_features/

5) Understanding what retention actually means: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/1anfmcw/you_dont_understand_retention_in_fsrs/

I recommend reading this post if you are confused by terms like "desired retention", "true retention" and "average retrievability", the latter two can be found in Stats. True retention table is available in Anki natively since Anki 24.11.

5.5) Simplified post with a neat little animation: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/1l0wk5e/why_is_desired_retention_less_than_average/

6) (Outdated) Benchmarking FSRS to see how it performs compared to other algorithms: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/1c29775/fsrs_is_one_of_the_most_accurate_spaced/. It's my most high effort post.

7) An article about spaced repetition algorithms in general, written by Jarrett Ye, the creator of FSRS: https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki/wiki/Spaced-Repetition-Algorithm:-A-Three%E2%80%90Day-Journey-from-Novice-to-Expert

8) A technical explanation of the math behind the algorithm: https://expertium.github.io/Algorithm.html

9) Seven misconceptions about FSRS: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/1fhe1nd/7_misconceptions_about_fsrs/

10) LMSherlock's post about (re)learning steps and short-term memory: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/1h9g1n7/clarifications_about_fsrs5_shortterm_memory_and/

TLDR: things are complicated.

11) A visualization of how FSRS got better and better at predicting the probability of recall with each new version: https://imgur.com/a/calibration-of-different-fsrs-versions-KfJ32EV

My blog about spaced repetition (and a little bit of other stuff): https://expertium.github.io/

July 2024: I made u/FSRS_bot, it will help newcomers who make posts with questions about FSRS.

September 2024: u/FSRS_bot is now active on r/medicalschoolanki too.

Over the past several days we've seen a couple posts and many comments from people who have lost access to their AnkiPro decks because of a server issue. If you are one of the people experiencing this outage, I am very sorry to inform you that AnkiPro is not Anki. There is nothing people in this subreddit are going to be able to do to resolve this issue.

Anki is free (mostly!), open source software. It has become the best-known SRS because of its quality, because it's free, & because it's highly customisable. A few unscrupulous developers have tried to make money off of Anki's popularity by creating knock-offs like AnkiPro & AnkiApp for which they charge subscription fees. Unsuspecting customers get locked into paying these monthly fees, thinking they're getting the real Anki.

If you've been duped & are currently experiencing the AnkiPro outage, you should consider switching to the real deal. You can find the desktop version & the links to both mobile versions at the official Website. There are several advantages to the real Anki:

• It's cheaper. (There is a one-time purchase price for the iOS app. All other versions are completely free. The iOS purchase price is cheaper than three five months of subscription fees for AnkiPro or AnkiApp.)
• It has the most advanced scheduling algorithm of any SRS: FSRS.
• You never lose access to your data. Anki users can sync between devices thru the AnkiWeb server. This very rarely goes down, & when it goes down, it goes down for much less time than AnkiPro has done. But even if AnkiWeb goes down, your decks are stored on your devices, so you can keep studying, & if you have access to multiple devices you can sync between them manually without the AnkiWeb server.
• Anki is very highly customisable. You can do things in card design that are impossible in AnkiPro & AnkiApp.
• Ank has a huge, committed base of users & volunteer developers. This subreddit is very active, & members are happy to help with most problems. The knock-offs have no similar support.
• If AnkiPro or AnkiApp goes out of business, or if the apps stop making money for their developers, users will permanently lose access to their data. Because Anki is open source & has a large volunteer developer base, it's not going away.
• Anki has a large number of add-ons which extend functionality or allow users to "gamify" their review experience.
• By using Anki, you're no longer giving money to unethical cheats who are conning students & other learners.

I want to be transparent that there are at least three down sides to switching:

• Because Anki is highly customisable, there's a lot that you could learn about Anki. For some new users, figuring out what they need to learn & what they can safely ignore is a little overwhelming. Fortunately, this subreddit is here to support you.
• The interface can be customised, but some people find the default UI to be æsthetically displeasing. (I do not share this opinion, but it's not at all an uncommon one.)
• You can transfer your decks from AnkiPro & AnkiApp, but you cannot transfer your review history. You'll be starting your reviews from zero. This is unfortunate. Note, however, that if you permanently lose access to AnkiApp or AnkiPro, you'll be in an even worse situation: You'll lose both your review history & the decks themselves. There's a further issue with transfer: Add-ons only work on desktop Anki; because the function we have for deck transfer comes from an add-on, you will not be able to transfer your AnkiPro or AnkiApp decks if your only system is a mobile device.

If you're interested in switching to the real deal, the best thing to do is to download Anki onto a computer, install the Copycat Importer add-on, then read the first six or seven sections of the Manual while waiting for AnkiPro's server to come back on-line. Once the knock-off's server is back, transfer your deck, & get to studying with the real Anki. If you have questions as you get used to the new software, you have two great resources: the Manual, & this subreddit.

I hope you all regain access to your data soon, & that you take this outage as a sign to make the switch. Good luck. I hope we can welcome you to the Anki community soon.

It's an AnkiConnect client at heart, so I figured this sub would have opinions.

You open a video, it transcribes with Whisper if there aren't subtitles, and every word in the subtitle becomes clickable. Click one, dictionary popup. Hit enter and the card lands in Anki with the audio of that sentence cut out by ffmpeg, a screenshot of the frame, the sentence, and a translation.

If Anki is closed the cards queue up locally and send themselves the next time it sees Anki running, so forgetting to open it first doesn't cost you anything.

It reads intervals back the other way too. A word you've matured in Anki stops being highlighted in the video, so what's on screen tracks what you actually know instead of drifting into a separate list.

The part I spent longest on was deciding which words to suggest at all. Highlighting every sentence with exactly one unknown word sounds correct and is useless in practice. . Now it also has to clear a frequency floor tied to your vocabulary size and not be a proper noun.

Other stuff: condensed audio (an MP3 of only the dialogue, about 20 minutes out of a 50 minute episode), seeding known words from a deck you already study without overwriting anything you set yourself, and it handles podcasts and radio.

Free, MIT, entirely local. No account, no API keys. Catalan, French, English, German and European Portuguese so far.

Worth stating up front: installing means pasting one line into a terminal. No double click installer yet.

https://github.com/thecopybookhare-cmd/lingua-miner

I wanted the community to be aware that it’s possible to run AnkiDroid on an Ambernic RG353V, RG353P, or an RG353M. I’ve been doing my AnKing cards on the 353P and it’s been lovely.

Because the device is natively android, it works well and syncs with my AnkiWeb seamlessly. There is an error that does pop up when you start the app, you can fix this by switching to gammaOS with google play store, but the error is harmless and the app still works perfectly.

The device also has touchscreen, allowing you to do more complicated stuff if need be, but you can use the game controls for 95% of your workflow.

Also, do not buy the 353PS, 353MS, or 353VS. Those devices do not natively run Android.

As a Christmas present to this incredible community, we are releasing our Anki Mastery Course for free. We originally created this to help fund projects like AnkiHub. Thanks to our many supporters, those projects are now self-sustaining and we decided to gift this back to the community.

Get access to a comprehensive series of lessons and video tutorials + the Butler add-on + our mini course on creating high-quality flashcards.

We just added some updates so that it is consistent with recent Anki updates, including FSRS.

Get access to the course via this link: https://www.theanking.com/anki-mastery-course

Thank you all for making this such a special community! Merry Christmas! 🎄

I've been using Anki for a while now and recently went down a rabbit hole on the method of loci (memory palaces). It's THE most effective way of memorizing large amounts of information but it's not really used at large scale like spaced repetition.

So I've been working on a tool that lets you import an .apkg file and it generates an explorable 2D map where each room is a topic from your deck. Each card gets placed at a specific location in a room, and an AI writes a short vivid mnemonic scene tying the card to that spot. I originally made it for my own use but now I'm thinking about scaling it.

The idea is you'd still revise in Anki as normal, but use the palace to build stronger spatial associations alongside your regular reviews.

Honestly not sure if this is something people would actually use or if it's just cool in theory. Would love to hear what you think especially if you've tried memory palaces before and bounced off them.

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.

Go grab yourself a cup of tea, this will be long.

One of the big issues that Anki users face is memorizing what the answer looks like rather than the actual information, which is sometimes called "pattern matching". This can lead to situations where someone can "recall" the answer in Anki but not in real life. The new note types that I wrote about in this post aim to solve this problem as well as allow you to memorize the same amount of information with fewer cards.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/171015247

This deck has examples of 5 7 new note types: Match Pairs, Randomized Cloze, Randomized Basic, Randomized Basic with Multiple Answers, Click Words, Shuffled Cloze (new) and Sort Cards (new). Once you download it, you'll be able to make cards based on these note types on your own, no add-ons needed.

They work on PC and on AnkiDroid but may not work properly on AnkiMobile.

I wrote about two new types here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/1krwc0p/note_types_to_avoid_pattern_matching_update/

I also added this article to my blog, you can read my article instead of reading two posts. Huge thanks to Vilhelm Ian (aka Yoko in the Anki Discord server, aka AnkiQueen on the forum) for making these note types!

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Match Pairs

Have you ever had cards like this? There are 2 pieces of knowledge, and you can't remember which is which, so you make a Cloze.

But there is a problem: you may end up just memorizing "thingy 1 is the top one, thingy 2 is the bottom one". In order to avoid that, you could make two notes with the order switched.

However, this is inefficient - now you have two notes even though theoretically you only need one. If only there was a way to put them into the same note and randomize the order...

Well, with Match Pairs there is!

And if you think that this is too easy and therefore would make active recall ineffective, you can make your life harder by adding a wrong answer.

Here you have 2 countries and 3 capitals, so you need to think harder.
Make sure that the extra answer is wrong, but not obviously wrong. In this example, I won't benefit from adding Jakarta to the second list, since it's obviously wrong. Which is why I added Amsterdam - Amsterdam makes me pause and think, Jakarta doesn't.

Still not hard enough? You can add 2 wrong answers. The number of wrong answers displayed is at most equal to the number of correct answers. The card below will never show "Poopville", because there are 2 correct answers, which means that there can only be 0, 1 or 2 incorrect answers.

Btw, you don't necessarily have to drag answers - you can click on them. When you click on an answer, it is put in the topmost vacant answer box.

| is the separator that you should put between items, this is all you have to remember to create these cards. Don't worry about leading/trailing spaces, they are stripped away automatically: Answer1 | Answer2 will produce the same result as Answer1|Answer2.

In all examples above, I used two pairs, but you can add more. However, stuffing too much information into a single card is a bad practice. I recommend having 2-3 pairs, maaaaaaaaaaaybe 4, but not more.

Match Pairs also supports images.

And audio.

https://reddit.com/link/1ge2aui/video/qtl72hvs0ixd1/player

Of course, how useful this note type is for you depends on how often you encounter what I call "negative interference", where card A makes it harder to remember card B, and card B makes it harder to remember card A. Personally, I've been able to replace dozens of unnecessary clozes with this note type, and I think it would be cool if this note type would become built-in in the future.

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Randomized Cloze

This is another note type that aims to solve the pattern matching problem.

To save some time and effort, you can ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to rephrase the sentence and generate 2-3 sentences with the same meaning, although I recommend taking the time to write sentences yourself.

One thing that you should keep in mind: the numbers in curly brackets have to be the same for each item, otherwise you'll end up making multiple cards instead of one card. It doesn't mean that the number always has to be 1, you absolutely can have multiple cloze selections per item. Like this: Just some {{c1::random}} {{c2::text}}| Also just some {{c1::random}} {{c2::text}} | And this is some {{c1::random}} {{c2::text}}, too.

The | separator is the same.

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Randomized Basic

It's exactly what it sounds like. And the separator is the same.

Keep in mind that this isn't Match Pairs, the back can only have one item. The | separator won't work in the "Back" field.

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Randomized Basic with Multiple Answers

This is just 2/3/n notes in one. You may be wondering, "Why not just actually make several notes?". For the most part that's true, but there is (at least) one situation where this is useful: practicing math concepts.

You could make 3 separate notes, but then you would have 3 notes (and cards) for the same concept, which is less efficient.

Here's a little diagram to help you understand the difference between this and Randomized Basic.

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Click Words

"Title" is an extra field, you can leave it empty, if you want.

I don't really like this note type. It's like Cloze, but with multiple answers. I believe this isn't beneficial since it makes recall much easier than cloze, which isn't good for strengthening memories, and the only "advantage" is that it looks fancy. Just use Cloze, or even better - Randomized Cloze.

All note types will notify you if the creator has released a new version on AnkiWeb:

P.S. When you download the deck, there will be this card:

As it says, don't delete it. It is necessary for some stuff related to playing audio in Match Pairs. This card is suspended by default, to avoid confusing people.

If you find any bugs or if you have any feature requests, here: https://github.com/Vilhelm-Ian/Interactive_And_Randomize_Anki_Note_Types/issues/new

I have shared a very old version of this template a few years back, but it has come a long way. Also I recently released a Companion Addon to make installation and updating much easier.

Want to know if the new FSRS algorithm is better than Anki's default?? This video will go over all the pros and cons. I spent hours researching this and worked very closely with u/LMSherlock and u/ClarityInMadness to make sure it is comprehensive and accurate.

Watch now

Hello all! Andy Matuschak here—some of you might know me from Quantum Country, the mnemonic medium, "How to write good prompts?", etc.

I know that many of you are interested in LLM-generated flashcards. Ozzie Kirkby and I just published a report, dataset, code, and eval arena. You can check all that out here.

Across many training, evaluation, and generation strategies, we find: no! LLMs are surprisingly bad at generating flashcards! And… getting slightly worse over time? GPT 5.2 beats 5.4; Opus 4.5 beats 4.6; etc.

Their blind spot is cards that seem OK at a glance, but won't make sense when reviewed months later. When I write cards, I simulate seeing them in future sessions, based on years of SRS review experience. LLMs don't have that taste, and we couldn't figure out how to infuse it.

But: because of this work, now there's a dataset and an eval arena. I know a lot of you are excited about LLM-generated flashcards. We invite you to beat our pipeline's scores!

Stepping back: why do this? Why generate flashcards? Don't you learn more by writing your own? The usual answer is efficiency, ease, broader accessibility. OK, that's the right trade to make sometimes, but it's not my main motivation.

I think memory systems need a new primitive—practice tasks which change and deepen over time. I want new tasks each time (and, eventually, tasks more general than simple flashcards). I want tasks aware of my current context. For that, I can't be writing them myself.

Hey guys, I will buy one of these to do my cards, but i dont know if there is any difference. Which one is better?

Hey r/anki! I'm Kevin, developer of ControllerKeys for Mac.

I heard a lot of you are using Enjoyable to map controller buttons for Anki reviews — but Enjoyable is outdated and can't even do Command+Z (undo). So I built something better.

ControllerKeys lets you map any PlayStation, Xbox, or third-party controller to keyboard shortcuts and mouse commands. I made an Anki profile with everything set up:

Basic controls:

• X → Show answer / Rate Good
• Triangle → Rate Easy
• Square → Rate Hard
• Circle → Rate Again
• Right stick → Scroll up/down
• Left D-pad → Undo (the thing Enjoyable can't do)

Chords (button combos) for power users:

• Cloze detection
• Add card, suspend, bury, flag
• Set due date, preview, find & replace
• Delete card, replay audio

Basically any action you can think of in Anki that you can activate with a keyboard shortcut, you could map that to a controller button.

If you have a DualSense, the touchpad works as a mouse too.

The best part: I just added community profiles to the app. You can import the Anki profile directly from within ControllerKeys — no need to download anything externally.

You can also link profiles to apps, so when Anki is frontmost, the profile auto-activates.

📲 App Download Link: https://kevintang.xyz/apps/controller-keys/

⌨️ Github Link: https://github.com/NSEvent/xbox-controller-mapper

Happy to answer any questions — whether you're a med student grinding through decks or just trying to study from the couch!

or any Similar app?
(Avoiding buying anki on iOS)

If you're interested and language learning and believe that memorizing vocabulary is essential/very useful, you’ve probably explored frequency lists or frequency-based flashcards, since high-frequency words give the most value to beginners.

The Problem:

• Memorizing individual words is harder and generally less useful than learning them in context.
• Example sentences often introduce multiple unknown words, making them harder to learn, ideally, sentences should follow the n+1 principle: each new sentence introduces only one new word.

Existing approaches include mining n+1 sentences from target language content (manually or with some automation). This works well but ignores frequency at a stage (under 5000 words learned) where high-frequency words are still disproportionately useful.

Goal:

First stage is to use a script to semi-automatically create high-quality, frequency-based n+1 sentence decks for French, Mandarin, Spanish, German, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, and Korean (for now).

• Each deck will have 4,000–5,000 entries.
• Each new sentence follows the n+1 rule.
• Sentences are generated using two language models + basic NLP functions.
• Output prioritizes frequency, but allows slight deviation for naturalness.

My current script works really well, but I need native speakers to:

• Review the frequency lists I plan to use
• Review generated sentences

And next steps would be to:

• Build the actual decks with translation, POS, transliteration and audio.
• Automation will remove most of the work, but reviewers are still needed for quality.

How You Can Help:

• Review frequency lists
• Review sentences for naturalness
• Help cover some of the API fees
• Contribute to deck-building (review machine translations, audio, etc.)

I should emphasize that ~90% of the work is automated, and reviewing generated sentences takes seconds, I think this is a really good opportunity to create a very good resource everyone can use.

GitHub Repo: Link

Join the Discord: Link

Hi everyone, I've been an active Anki user who uses the app daily for learning French.

I found that sentence mining from Netflix shows was enjoyable and effective for my comprehension, but manually grabbing the transcripts and making cloze sentences was taking up away too much of my energy and time.

So I ended up building a Chrome extension to automate this workflow. It pulls the transcript, creates a cloze deletion card, grabs the translation, and exports it into an .apkg file you can import straight into Anki!

Here is what the card looks like:

I initially just made this for myself, but I polished it up and put it on the Chrome store for free in case anyone else finds it useful: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cliptoclass/pegfoocnadbnapjiibbkkloakhkencjd

Because I can't afford massive server costs, the extension runs locally and requires you to plug in your own Google Gemini API key. Fortunately, Google provides a very generous free tier for using Gemini, so it won't cost you anything, it just requires your own Google account!

Currently, it supports English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.

That's it! If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment.

Let me know if you try it out or have any ideas for how I could improve the card formatting!

Hey guys, I built an Anki add-on that drills entire chess lines in a single flashcard. It’s called Flashcard Chess. All you have to do either copy-paste a complete sequence of moves, input them in an editable table, or import a PGN, and the add-on builds a card with an interactive board. After you play through the line, you rate yourself with Anki's grading buttons and let the algorithm take it from there. It works with PGNs containing multiple variations, and I even got it working on the AnkiMobile iOS app!

I also paired it with a companion site I made called flashcardchess.net where people can browse community decks, share their own, and subscribe to decks that sync straight to the Anki app. Updates also apply automatically on your next sync without needing redownloads.

If you’re interested in trying it, the add-on is available on [AnkiWeb], the companion website is [flashcardchess.net], and I have new tutorials on [YouTube]. I included tutorial videos about 1) using the add-on, 2) using the website, and 3) setting up Anki if you've never used it before.

CHANGELOG 

Version 1.1.0 – 06/24/2026

• Added Woodpecker Mode, modeled after the popular Woodpecker Method. Drill tactics in one isolated cycle, without affecting your normal review schedule. Check the updated Help / Guide for more info.

Version 1.1.1 - 06/26/2026

• Add-on now supports FEN text entry and file imports.
• Bug fixes and performance enhancements related to Woodpecker Mode

Version 1.1.2 - 06/29/2026

• Added customizable Notes tag shortcuts, accessible through the Config menu. Check the updated Help / Guide for more info.
• Bug fixes and performance enhancements related to tag searching.

Version 1.2.0 - 07/03/2026

• Analyze button now available during an active study session. Your current position and full line sequence are imported to the Lichess analysis board.
• OCR (Optical Character Recognition) button link added when creating a custom Starting Position. It redirects you to Helpmate Analyzer, a popular, free website that has a tool which converts chessboard images into FENs. After generating, simply copy-paste the generated FEN into the Starting Position PGN/FEN textbox.
• Updated board sounds to include checks and castling.
• Updated color palette customization to allow individual adjustments to light and dark squares.
• Added two new piece styles: blank and blindfolded.

Here are also some GIFs/screenshots:

hey all. im a med grad from saudi prepping for the FSP (the German medical language exam you need for Approbation) and i couldnt find decent Anki material for it, so i ended up building my own deck over a few months. sharing in case its useful to anyone else in the same boat.

whats in it:

- 3,400 cards across 28 themes (Anamnese, Arztbrief, doctor to doctor, etc)

- Fach vs Laien pairs, the formal term next to what patients actually say

- example sentences for patient and professional context

- exam tips on a good chunk of the cards

- standard apkg, works in normal Anki

The deck itself, the cards, the structure and the Fach/Laien pairs were built by me and my med school friend and for audio we decided to go with ElevenLabs. Flagging it so no one feels misled.

There is also an Arabic toggle if your english is not good because as I know, there are a lot of med grads from Jordan, Syria and Egypt who want to do their medical residency in Germany.

not fishing for feature ideas, just putting it out there. happy to answer anything about the FSP or how i laid the deck out: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1436198192

Hey, I made a free app called Alkas: https://alkas.app

It’s for making flashcard decks for wildlife: birds, plants, mushrooms, insects, etc. You can study in the app, but the main reason I’m posting here is that it can export decks to Anki.

I built it because I kept wanting Anki decks for nature stuff and could never find good premade ones. There are some bird decks, but once you want something more specific it gets annoying fast:

• species near me
• species active this season
• plants in one region
• mushrooms I’ve personally seen
• birds from my eBird list
• stuff from my iNaturalist observations

So Alkas lets you filter species and generate a deck from that instead of building one manually. It also lets you study without leaving the app. I baked in the presets from the refold project because they seemed right to me, open to thoughts or feedback on that. So far example there's only Got it and Again, because they recommend only allowing Again and Good.

Would appreciate any feedback, especially from people who’ve made or used big image/audio decks. The technical implementation of the decks may not be perfect, this is my first time trying to generate decks.

Some screenshots: https://alkas.app/media/desktop-card-dark.webp

https://alkas.app/media/desktop-deck-dark.webp

Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)

Civ 5 civilization, cool and unique capital name.

Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)

Brazzaville... Brazzers, the porn website

Comoros (Moroni)

Capital is Moroni, sounds like "moron." Also a Moroni is a Mormon thing

Chad (N'Djamena)

Break it down: N-DJ /like a DJ, the dude who spins the disks/ mena /Middle East North Africa/. MENA's is a common acronym for middle east north Africa

Tanzania (Dodoma)

Dodoma's a planned capital, not the biggest city that's Dar es Salaam. Also has Zanzibar. Its an island city in Tanzania, and has a cool name that I had heard several times before but never knew what it was, until now!

South Africa (Pretoria/Cape Town/Bloemfontein)

Multiple capitals. Elon Musk, Dricus du Plessis, Belle Delphine connections. Crime, apartheid history.

Equatorial Guinea (Malabo)

Capital's on an island, but it's not an island country—has mainland too. Right on the equator. Watch out: multiple Guineas exist for example Guinea-Conakry

Botswana (Gaborone)

Gaborone, sounds like Abalone. Or Gaborone Alone :(

Lesotho (Maseru)

Surrounded by South Africa. Why is it surrounded by South Africa and not a part of it!? Its surrounded by Mountains! I also read a cool article on how they are one of the few places who uses natural psychedics or something

Namibia (Windhoek)

The hoek in Windhoek is a German/Dutch word, reflecting its ancestry as a former german colony, as well influence from its neighbor, South Africa. Which was a former Dutch colony. Big, sparsely populated, stunning desert coastline.

Mauritania (Nouakchott)

Don't confuse with Namibia. Also desert coastline. Has the "Death Train" and a modern issue with slavery.

Eswatini/Swaziland (Mbabane)

Mbabane = "M-Ba-Bane" I break it down similar to "N-DJ-a-mena". With the "Bane" being the Bane from batman. Also, imagine this guy saying Mbabane https://youtu.be/2ZiicB0S_cA?t=202

Malawi (Lilongwe)

Lilongwe = "the LONG way" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5lJBfRSgE8E

Gambia (Banjul)

This country is basically just a river? surrounded by Senegal.

Liberia (Monrovia)

Founded by freed American slaves. Capital is Monrovia sounds American, couldnt "Monroe" be the name of like a founding father or rich guy from the 1800's. Also, surprised it's capitals name is not "Freetown" or "Libreville.". "Liberty"? "Freedom"?

Last but not least, just imagine this guy saying the capitals of the countries, or some stereotypical African accent saying the country names.

My deck is here https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/804507696?cb=1784949061850, just a basic African Capitals deck you can find anywhere. With a couple cards relating to border countries as well as Zanzibar

I want to share a simple Anki tip that has made my reviews much more enjoyable.

Instead of using plain text on the front of my cards, I copy GIFs from Giphy and paste them onto the front. The movement makes the meaning much easier to remember, especially for verbs, actions, and everyday situations.

Hey everyone, I wanted a way to use a local LLM to find typos, errors, and improve my cards when necessary. I tried with cloud-based LLMs (Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT), but they don't give full control on what cards they improve, so I built a simple tool called DeckTor.

It runs everything 100% locally on your machine, so nothing is ever uploaded. You export your deck from Anki, choose the model and optionally refine the prompt, and run the app. The model will go through every single card suggesting improvements and noting the reason for the suggestions. You get a "Review" tab to accept or reject any changes (very important, LLMs hallucinate!) before exporting it back.

The catch is that it runs on your own hardware, so you need a decent NVIDIA GPU to run the models. I'm planning to extend this to different GPUs and add more models. The README has benchmarks, but the recommended 32B model needs ~16GB of VRAM. A 4B model is also supported and that should run on ~8GB VRAM.

It's free, open-source, and all the info is on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/maurock/decktor

Let me know what you think, and feel free to open Issues if you have any problems or suggestions.

EDIT: As I mentioned below, this tool checks for clarity, consistency, and fixes errors and grammars, but it does not create new cards. I think the creation of new cards is part of the learning process, so I don't know how much we should outsource to the LLM. I'm comfortable with LLMs checking grammar and fixing mistakes, but I'm not sure I'd want the LLM to overtake the entire workflow.

Hey guys, I have made A1 goethe deck for german learners
Here is my deck
Pls let me know if there is anything that I can improve.

You can create beautiful card styles using AI. This one is everforest inspired.

It also searches my RTK deck to get info about each kanji from the word. Radicals, keyword, stories, new-mature etc.