Anki user since December 31, 2021. About the same time I started learning Chinese. Anki is a great supplement tool. I also read, watch Chinese TV, listen to Chinese radio, and talk to my Chinese teachers and friends. Most of my decks are self-made, my main one's are Chinese words (8322 cards) and Chinese Characters (6811 and 8240 cards).
Honest question. For those of you answering cards in less than 8 sec/ question and doing 350+ cards a session. What is your exact thought process before clicking easy or hard? The only time my clicking is this fast is before block exams when I just want to see the material though ik anki is not meant to be used that way.
Are you thinking of the answer before you click or seeing if you recognize the answer/ that it makes sense and then clicking or just have a goal to get through as many as possible in an hour. What exactly is your process??
Edit: for context I use anking deck
Click on the deck
Click "Browse"
Ctrl-A
Ctrl-Delete
Now your deck is done because there's no more cards!
Did this while cleaning out a deck and thought it was hilarious, went from 200+ to 0 cards really quickly
https://i.redd.it/7td1nta66gth1.gif
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:
https://i.redd.it/bbp06vno6gth1.gif
https://i.redd.it/0m4rjnnp6gth1.gif
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:
https://i.redd.it/bpmq6uku6gth1.gif
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!
Hello fellow Ankineers
In 2022, I posted Countries of the World (COTW) v2. Thank you for your feedback. I've been working on v3 for a while now, and today it's publish day.
248 entries: 195 sovereign states, 49 dependencies, and 4 disputed areas. Available in English and German; both can be installed side by side without interference, using the same media to save disk space.
The changes are:
Deck fields:
Card types:
Upgrading:
Due to some restructuring under the hood, upgrading from v2 is not possible. I'm sorry for that. However, with the new data structure (a separate ID for each country as the main field, independent of any of its properties like name or ISO code), upgrading should always be possible in the future, whatever changes our world undergoes.
IMPORTANT: Borders:
I used the GIS data from Natural Earth and other sources (for all sources, see GitHub or deck description). These borders show de facto control (with some latency), meaning that, for example, Crimea is shown as Russian, or Taiwan and Kosovo are shown as sovereign states. THIS DECK IS NOT A POLITICAL STATEMENT and does not want to promote a certain world view. This will not hinder you in studying the countries. Please do not file issues on GitHub regarding this topic.
Ultimate Geography:
Yes, this deck's content is close to Ultimate Geography. I developed v1 as I did not like the look of UG, wanted to include ISO codes, and I like things consistent in style. I don't wish to be any kind of competition for UG. Just use whatever you like and be happy.
Use of AI:
Issue reporting:
Downloads:
License:
Thanks to everyone who gives this deck a go. Have fun studying :)
Screenshots:
Question: flag → country card type (the icons are explained when clicking the Help button)
I'm very new to Anki, I only started using it today and I made 130 cards for a test in two days. I'm gonna need to cram this info and I obviously don't have much time to do that "long term."
What can I do? Any advice? I'm an undergrad trying to take my classes seriously for once, and this is the first time I'm dedicating any serious time into "studying"
Sorry, I'm just in a panic and I need to cram for an exam and I think Quizlet's what I'm looking for. Not sure if anyone's done it but I have over 130 cards, it'd be a lot to copy paste manually.. Last post here I promise.
Hey everyone, M1 here looking for some FSRS deck advice.
Right now, my workflow is watching third-party lectures (Bootcamp), understanding the concepts solid in the moment, and unlocking ~100–150 new cards a day. Everything clicks during the session, and with my current short learning steps, hitting "Good" twice means the card graduates on Day 1.
The issue is that once it graduates, FSRS immediately schedules the next review for 7 to 10 days out.
By the end of the day, so much new material has entered my brain that brand-new physiology feels way too fragile to leave untouched for over a week. If I don't see those cards again within 24–48 hours, I feel like I'm guaranteed to forget half of them.
A couple of classmates told me they just hit "Again" on every single new card on Day 1 to force it to show up tomorrow, but I know that artificially inflates the card's difficulty rating (D) and can cause review counts to explode weeks down the line.
For those managing high daily card volume on 3–4 week block exam cycles:
Is setting learning steps to something like 1d or 10m 1d the standard way to guarantee that Day 2 follow-up?
How are you keeping intervals tight enough to prevent early drop-off without drowning in 600+ reviews a day right before finals?
Any advice on deck settings would be appreciated.
FSRS is at 85
Ankidroid intervals are always stuck at 1 day or 2 days for easy
Shoutout to whoever made the anki farm tycoon add-on. I got hella addicted on it.
Got through around 150 new and 200 reviews in my main step deck, but then got addicted to the add-on and started going through all my old blocks which I moved into a new deck. It definitely sped me up as well because normally I average around 9-10 seconds per card from zoning out, but I want my pigs to grow faster.
I would definitely give it a try if you have an addictive personality.
I wanted to play Pokémon FireRed in Japanese as reading practice, with the vocabulary arriving in Anki in the same order as it arrives in the game, so I built a deck that does that. This includes not only the story/dialogue vocab, but also all menus, UIs, etc.
The deck
- 11,236 cards, added in the order you meet the text when you play: the opening, Pallet Town, Route 1, and on.
- One card per word *form*: つかまえた, つかまえて and つかまえられる are three cards, each on the sentence where the game first uses that form. I know some people are gonna be mad about it, but I'm a total beginner when it comes to Japanese and it helps me. Shouldn't be hard to modify the code to make a version where these are combined into a single card.
- A second, optional deck of 925 names (Pokémon, places, moves, items).
The card
Front, exactly as the game shows the line (the game is written almost entirely in kana), with one word highlighted:
グリーンは すでに ポケモンを つかまえて ずかんの ページを ふやしている そうじゃ！
Back:
- the sentence in romaji
- つかまえて → つかまえる 捕まえる (捕 つか), and the same in romaji
- what it means here ("catching, and"), the literal meaning, and the dictionary sense that applies
- how the form is built: つかまえ + て (te-form)
- the sentence in kanji and in English
- collapsed sections: two more sentences with the same form, the whole message, all dictionary senses
- location and message ID in small print
Anki design choices
- Notes are added in story order, so it only works with Insertion order set to Sequential. Non-dialogue text (menus, battle messages, item descriptions) is spread through the chapter where you first see it, so it never arrives as a block of 500 menu cards.
- Every card is tagged with its location (Pewter_City_Gym). Sound words are tagged onomatopoeia, stammers and broken speech fragment, and cards the analysis was unsure about low-confidence, so you can suspend a whole kind in the browser.
- HTML and CSS only, with <details> for the collapsed parts and styles for light and night mode.
- The stretch up to the first gym is the biggest, about 2,500 cards, because that is where the menus and most basic vocabulary first appear. I tried to weave the menu cards with dialogue cards throughout the road to the first gym.
Get it
source: https://github.com/mkusm/pokemon-firered-jp-anki
deck download: https://github.com/mkusm/pokemon-firered-jp-anki/releases/download/v1.1/firered_jp.apkg
It's free. If a card is wrong or the template breaks on your setup, let me know.
