You asked for asteroids. Your Anki forest can now burn down or get wiped out (optional)
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Hi everyone! Last week I shared Memory Forest here, an add-on that grows a forest from your Anki progress. Each day you learn new cards, a tree is planted, and it grows as you remember those cards better. Thanks for all the feedback last time, a lot of this update came from your comments.
Some of you asked for something destructive when you lose your streak, and others asked to keep it calm. So there's now a Nature setting with three options:
- Peaceful (the default): missing days costs nothing. A break still leaves a pond.
- Wild: miss two days in a row and smoke rises as a warning. Miss a third and a fire spreads until you've studied for seven days. A weekend off is fine.
- Merciless: miss a single day and an asteroid wipes out your entire forest, leaving a lasting crater behind as a reminder.
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The forest also reacts to how you study now. If overdue reviews pile up, tumbleweeds start rolling in. Leech cards bring crows that sit on their trees until you fix them, and a week without new cards lets the grass grow tall. Good days leave flowers. On Peaceful you only see the good stuff.
Other things in 1.1:
- Your forest on your phone: turn it on and it shows up in AnkiDroid as a deck with one card, updated whenever you sync from your computer. Note: As add-ons are not fully supported on AnkiDroid, this only pushes desktop updates to your phone, but not vice-versa.
- A History tab: leave decks out of the forest, start it from a specific date, or exclude suspended cards from your forest.
- Choose where the forest shows: main screen, deck screens, or both.
- New animals to find, some of them years into your forest, along with a bigger forest (from 420 trees to 730 trees).
- Rivers now got a new design.
- Less memory and CPU usage, and the animation pauses when the forest is off-screen
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I've also set up a Patreon. From now on I'll add a new scenery every month, and Patreon gets each one earlier. Everything still comes to the free version, and it all stays open source.
AnkiWeb: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1255432496
GitHub: https://github.com/baraklevy20/memory-forest
Keep an eye on your forest near the end of October.
As always, I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks!