[New Add-on] PokeJourney — Turn your Anki reviews into a Pokémon journey
I've been doing a stupid amount of Anki lately and wanted something that made grinding through hundreds of cards feel a little less monotonous.
So I started making a Pokémon add-on.
Then I got carried away with it.
It's called PokeJourney.
The basic idea is simple. You choose a Pokémon region, pick a starter, and start at Level 1. Every Anki card you answer progresses your Pokémon. They level up, evolve at their actual evolution levels, and you can eventually take an evolution line all the way to Lv.100 and master it.
Once you catch a new Pokémon, you're not forced to train it. You can keep training it, or go into Box / Swap and switch to another Pokémon you've caught. You can also go back to an older Pokémon you were training. Their progress is saved.
There are also Gym Challenges. Pick a Gym Leader and start a challenge. While it's active, your cards count toward defeating the Gym instead of leveling your Pokémon. Beat the challenge and you get the badge + a victory animation/fanfare
✨ Study streak milestones → Mythical Pokémon
The 1,000-card Legendary is basically a reward for those completely unreasonable Anki days. Mythicals work off streaks instead because I wanted them to reward consistency rather than raw volume.
Gift Pokémon, Legendaries and Mythicals arrive at Lv.100 / Mastered.
There's a regional Pokédex, Pokémon Box, Gym badges, Today's Journey tracker and a Trophy Case for your overall progress.
It currently covers:
Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, Galar, Hisui and Paldea.
Major events have animations/sounds too: catching Pokémon, evolution, Gym victories, mastery, Daily Gifts, Legendaries and Mythicals. Sounds can be turned off completely in Settings.
You can put the PokeJourney panel on the right, left, top or bottom of the reviewer, or minimize it if you want it out of the way for a while.
I tried to make sure none of this messes with actual studying. PokeJourney doesn't replace Anki's scheduler. It just uses the cards you're already reviewing as progression. Major animations temporarily block the answer controls so you don't accidentally answer the next card, and simultaneous events are queued instead of appearing on top of each other.
I've been building and testing this while actually using Anki, so I'm sure people will find bugs and weird edge cases I haven't found yet.
But it's finally at the point where I think other people can have fun with it.
PokeJourney: Turn every Anki card into a Pokémon journey. 79393386
