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A community-run subreddit about the Anki flashcard app and related services. Here, you can discuss anything related to Anki, share resources on Anki or spaced repetition, and reach out or lend a hand with any questions.

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This community is for people who use the Anki "powerful, intelligent flashcard" program. Anki is available for these platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, iPhone, and Android. There is also a web-based version of Anki.

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I lost my add ons

Hello

I recently updated Anki
I had to do this since Anki wouldn’t work otherwise.
Since then all my add ons have been lost. (flashcards are fine) I am currently using windows 11

Any help retrieving my add ons would be much appreciated.

0 Comments
2024/12/11
10:44 UTC

2

AI flash card generator

Is there a website or an application that can create a flashcards from pdf file?

3 Comments
2024/12/11
10:20 UTC

2

Anki scheduling in iOS app

Started reviewing decks for the first time today and pretty much all the cards have the same good interval for 5 days. Before when I reviewed the cards, the good intervals would vary a fair bit more from 4-6 days. Anyone know what I can change to get it back to how it used to be

2 Comments
2024/12/11
07:00 UTC

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study time stat add on

Hi i want to set up this add on to show

Total time, past week, and Daily time

im having proplems to do it because english is not my first languge so my mindfull got mixed up 🤣

0 Comments
2024/12/11
06:57 UTC

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The forgetting curve is embarrassing for some cards...

https://preview.redd.it/9d3xzmbkr56e1.png?width=1390&format=png&auto=webp&s=f61ca6092b68fe4500f4c10a6fb42f8aaf57be35

The card is just asking me what the capital of Mozambique is, i thought i had finally gotten it then it gets bad again 😭

i guess its not that important, my question is would you guys actually suspend a card like this? its not like its for an exam. when i reviewed it today i had NO idea what the answer could be.

https://preview.redd.it/jgn6uucqr56e1.png?width=1464&format=png&auto=webp&s=4cac800bc7416d6c7cd867ed65d5774c0e810e3d

10 Comments
2024/12/11
05:52 UTC

2

Can Anki cards show mermaid diagrams?

I want to know if I can add a mermaid diagram to the back of an Anki card and if it would render correctly/at all on both desktop and AnkiMobile.

3 Comments
2024/12/11
05:17 UTC

1

Is there way to reorder the decks in AnkiDroid?

Anyone know it please let me know, don't know how to do that. My important decks are very below.

1 Comment
2024/12/11
04:53 UTC

1

Anki Mobile settings are tiny and stuck in corner

Heya! Basically as the title says. I have no clue how this happened but my settings are incredibly compressed and none of the buttons are pressable. This only happens when I use the in-deck options in the bottom right. I've tried reinstalling the app and paroozing the settings but no fix so far. Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks

https://preview.redd.it/yd7n473be56e1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=78cc435f296a05565ab72b7bafead439e44b7dd8

0 Comments
2024/12/11
04:36 UTC

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Error help?

https://preview.redd.it/sm4k7ekr656e1.png?width=772&format=png&auto=webp&s=2b36ee1a31b98a1f52801b7be9e65324c563393a

Any reason why this could be happening? I just downloaded anki for the first time, and I'm running 24.11 version. This happens when im trying to login on the anki app. thanks in advance!

1 Comment
2024/12/11
03:54 UTC

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FSRS good for cramming for an exam in two weeks?

I’m a psychiatry postgraduate and I have my final board exam in the next 14 days. I have used Anki for my Postgraduate entry exam(similar to USMLE) and familiar with the settting. I’m starting to make my flash cards now as I keep reading many answers for the first time. Do you think this strategy will be good or should I sort to reading the text book once and just take notes?

pS: It’s very difficult to read the whole notes again for me. I just want to pass the board exam.

9 Comments
2024/12/11
03:34 UTC

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PDF to Flashcards?

I'm thinking about creating a web-app which converts information from PDFs into flashcards accurately. You can do this on ChatGPT and other LLM platforms, but the results are usually adequate at best. Could this be a product of value to you?

This app would be a part of the Anki-X ecosystem, a gpt that's assisted 25k+ convos.

1 Comment
2024/12/11
03:16 UTC

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Can Anki be used for short <100 term Decks?

I'm not like those medical students who have decks with thousands of terms, I just want to review for my Unit tests in short times 1-2 weeks that have like 90-100 terms

3 Comments
2024/12/11
00:40 UTC

2

Turning glossary into cards

How many of y’all do this?

Psych classes are memorization intensive. Before class begins, would it be a good idea to copy-paste the entire glossary, tagged by chapter, into Anki? If I do this, should the cards be front-back or front-back (and reverse)?

1 Comment
2024/12/10
22:22 UTC

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Is there a way to mass-update formatting on Yomitan cards?

Hello. I have 1,900 Yomitan-created Japanese study flashcards in my current Vocab Mining Anki deck. I realized after creating all these cards that I want the part of speech of the word on the front of the card as well as the back of it, along with a few audio changes. Is there a way to retrieve the information from Yomitan and mass-update these notes all at once, or do I need to create new flashcards/add the desired values by hand?

3 Comments
2024/12/10
21:58 UTC

1

review ahead ruins schedule?

I was using learning and relearning steps both 10min my friend told me that I should have set review ahead to 0 (I was setting them to 20min) and I may have ruined the parameters is that true is it like misusing hard bottom if so what should Ido now (sorry Iam new to Reddit and I dont know the rules yet)

5 Comments
2024/12/10
21:03 UTC

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Auto-change color of the hint field if the card has a specific tag

https://preview.redd.it/voq6t1l0336e1.png?width=990&format=png&auto=webp&s=0937515d6f2b5c41fa02e7e375ea6ac122e39566

Goal: By default, the grey hint field should change color if the card has a specific tag "no-kanji".

Why. I'm creating Anki cards for students preparing for the JLPT N5. To avoid increasing unnecessary difficulty by using only kanji, I include the reading on the front of each card, hidden with a hint. For cards where learning the kanji for N5 isn't necessary, I'd like the hint field to change color (e.g., to lightgreen). This way, N5 learners can focus on reading without memorizing the kanji, preventing duplicate cards in Anki, while still allowing them to learn the necessary characters and readings for their JLPT level.

My CSS for the hint field and the HTML of the field with hint are below. Tag is "withoutkanji". The solution must be pretty simple, but I coudn't solve it with ChatGPT :

a.hint {
color: lightgrey;
font-family: Noto Serif JP Light;
font-size: 16 px;
text-align: center;
line-height: 2.0;
opacity: .1;
margin: 0.7em auto 0;
padding: 0.2em;
border-radius: 5px;
background-color: lightgrey;
}
***
<div style='font-family: "Noto Serif JP Light"; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;'>{{hint:Чтение}}</div>
3 Comments
2024/12/10
20:33 UTC

1

Arabic Deck for MSA or Hejazi Arabic?

I am looking for a good deck of the most common words in MSA or Hejazi, but i cant seem to find anything? Do you have any recommendations? Thank you very much!

2 Comments
2024/12/10
20:19 UTC

3

How to Manage Multiple Anki Decks as a Med Student?

Hey everyone,
I’m drowning in Anki decks and could really use some advice. Right now, I have about 10 decks with 20-50 new cards each every day. It takes me around an hour per deck, but with uni from 8 AM to 5:30 PM, there’s just no way I can get through all of them daily.

I was thinking of splitting the decks—doing half one day, the other half the next—but I’m worried that’ll mess up the spaced repetition.

how do you handle this? Any tips would be a lifesaver because I feel like I’m falling behind.

Thanks in advance!

8 Comments
2024/12/10
20:05 UTC

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FSRS Optimize/Evaluate looking at different amount of cards between mobile and desktop

When I go to hit optimize or evaluate on Ankidroid, it goes through about 67908 reviews, but when I do the same on the desktop app, it goes through 107820. This causes the mobile app to say "the current parameters are optimal", but on the desktop app, the parameters get changed. I have the deck synced and all of the FSRS settings are the exact same including parameters. Also made sure that I am looking at the option preset only used by this single deck. Any ideas why there is a discrepancy and how to fix it?

Some additional info: Ankidroid statistics seems to still have all of the reviews as it shows 107980 lifetime reviews on the deck (not sure why it doesn't exactly match up with the desktop FSRS. Desktop lifetime reviews also has 107980 though).

Hitting evaluate with ignore before 9/1/2022 (I started the deck around 8/1/2022): Ankidroid does 63621 reviews, desktop does 101776

Hitting evaluate with ignore before 12/1/2024: Ankidroid does 522 reviews, desktop does 841

AnkiDroid v2.19.3, Desktop v24.11

3 Comments
2024/12/10
19:48 UTC

1

Card templates with CSS to get inspiration?

So I've searched and I find some old collections of templates, but very little that's new, and most of the collections are assuming you're just going to copy everything wholesale. I'd really like to find something I can use as a sort of buffet of inspiration in designing my own cards: like "here are some dividers that can go between your question and answer," "here's a way to make the card visually flip over," and so forth. Anyone have any good current resources that, if not explicitly designed for this, can be used this way?

0 Comments
2024/12/10
18:38 UTC

1

Anki Screen freeze on Undo

I am using Anki on mobile. While reviewing the cards i use the Screen mirroring option to mirror Anki on my AppleTV. I also use an Xbox controller to review the cards.

Problem is that during review whenever i use the UNDO option to go back to the previous question the Anki screen freezes. Nothing happens through the Xbox controller. I then have to go again to my mobile to come to the deck screen and then again select the deck which i was studying. This causes me to loose the flow as i have to go again and again to my mobile to select the deck.

Any solutions to resolve this issue?

0 Comments
2024/12/10
18:08 UTC

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[AnkiDroid] Possibly a bug. After ~10 minutes of continuous use it slowly becomes unresponsive until it eventually crash, freezing the phone in the process.

Device: OnePlus 10T 5G (8GB of RAM)

As per title, when I use the app, after roughly 10 minutes it slowly slows down, becoming more and more sluggish until it eventually freeze completely. The system becomes unresponsive and I'm stuck in the Anki frozen screen. After some time (about a minute) it crashes. Sometimes the toast message "WebView out of memory" (or something similar, I didn't memorize it) pops up.

The cards are pure text, no media of any kind included, and I've used the same deck on a different device (an older Asus) and it worked flawlessly without any issue. (But it also used an older AnkiDroid version)

My device has no issues with any other application, including intensive 3D videogames.

Can't say exactly if it's an issue of AnkiDroid or something on my device, so any advice is greatly appreciated.

If you have any question feel free to ask.

3 Comments
2024/12/10
18:05 UTC

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Easiest way to extract audio and subtitles for anki?

Hi all, I’m trying to do the following for language learning purposes and was curious if anyone had a method they’d be willing to share.

  1. Extract a clip of a video/audio
  2. Extract subtitles/transcription
  3. Create anki response card with audio (for transcription)
  4. Create anki card with audio and transcription on front that I can read along to, emulating the speaker.

I guess the only true problem I have here is getting audio, primarily from YouTube. Any suggestions? Do you have a system that does something similar to what I’m attempting to do?

Thanks!

1 Comment
2024/12/10
17:21 UTC

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Do you convert the whole book into flashcards?

I have a book that's almost 700 pages long, and most of the lines contain some kind of information. Should I convert the entire book into flashcards, organizing each subject into separate decks

24 Comments
2024/12/10
17:14 UTC

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