I am new to Anki but I loved, I think I must have missed something very obvious, this feature exists easily on my andorid app, but why does it not exist on the PC version, I use the spacebar for next card then answer, but what if I want to go back to the last card I just studied and want to review it again, it seems there is no way to do that.

did I miss something very obvous?

also the setting is very confusing, i have bunch of cards that i need to stay in order of card 1,2 3, 4, etc.. to 50.

I just want to start a new set of cards and study from card 1 and then all the way to the end or start from card 20 and next card will be 21, 22, 23 etc...

but it seems i can't do that, I can't just jump into a card in the middle and have the next card show up, it sems the card I studied are remembered by anki and will not show up in the next order again and in the study mode I can't choose which card I want to start etc...

is there a setting where I can just totally reset the card without anki remeber which card I look at? i feel like this anki have a lot of complex feature that I don't need.

I don't know how many daily active users in the AnkiWeb.

I guess the man behind AnkiWeb cost a lot to mantain the server and our data.

Any ideas about who they are?

Say there is a card I know well. I hit "good" and it brings back in 5 days.
5 days later, when I see review it, and I hit "good" again. Will it be reviewed 5 days before the next review or will it be 10 days now?

What I am asking is does intervals double or stay at whatever I set it at.

I've seen a lot of praise for the FSRS here and recommendations to turn it on. So why isn't it enabled by default?

I've been using anki for almost 9 months now

In the past, I used to do anki in a school bus. It took me about 40-50 minutes to get back home, so I almost always finished my anki in the bus. However, now, I changed schools and it takes me about 5 minutes to get home by car.

My routine got completely ruined, now when I get home I tell to myself that I will eat, then do anki. In reality, I eat while watching YouTube, finish eating before the video finished, so I think to myself that I'll finish the video and then I'll do anki. I then see another interesting video in recommendtions, think to myself that this will definitely be the last video and I'll do anki after it. I then watch another video.... and another... and another...

Or, I open reddit... and just keep scrolling..

Once I realize that it's late, I finally begin to do anki, get distracted while doing anki multiple times, and finish it at about 11:30 pm, sometimes at 1 am. I then wake up at 6 for school, feel terrible because I didn't had enough sleep, and then the cycle repeats.

This led me to the idea of skipping anki for a day in order to sleep properly, and then start doing anki properly. My reviews doubled on the next day, decided that I'll do it another day.. and then another...etc

It lasted a week, my backlog grew over 1k. I then discovered filtered decks and somehow got out of this pit yesterday (took another week + I wasn't taking any new words).

I'm not sure why exactly I'm making this post. I think I just want to know when you guys do your anki? What is your anki routine? How do you not get distracted? Do you have any suggestions? Is there maybe some third party app that blocks apps e.g. YouTube until you finish ankidroid? I'm using ankidroid as well as anki on my computer.

TLDR: I used to do anki in the bus on my way home, now it takes me only 5 minutes to get home and I procrastinate anki at my house. When do you guys do your anki? How do you not get distracted? Do you have any suggestions? Is there maybe some third party app that blocks apps e.g. YouTube until you finish ankidroid?

I'm using ankidroid as well as anki on my computer.

I have like 500 cards active in my anking deck, I want to suspend them, and active new cards for a new topic, but I really want to revisit/relearn all of the cards I already active right now without having to search for all of them again

So I can understand 80% of the 4th Harry Potter book in Spanish and I have all the other words that I'm not great with highlighted, an I am wanting to make flash cards for each one so that when I re-read the book, I'll be able to understand all of it like a native speaker. I have already read 8 books in Spanish (first 5 harry potter books are included), along with having listened to one of those books 15 times during my job. I've already accumulated a good amount of vocabulary just by reading and listening alone, but I feel like it's not enough if I want to get to a C1 level of Spanish.

What are your thoughts?

Hi, I have a lot of cards created and sometimes I feel the need of adding an example to clarify the use of that word or expression. However I'd like to hidden those examples because I don't want to add any clue before solving the card.

Is there any way to do that easily?

Thanks

New month, new flashcards! What Anki decks have you guys been studying and how's it going?

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when i switch on the shuffling in my cards and save changes it dose not save. please if anyone knows how i can fix that or another way to shuffle the answers. i do mcq questions. my anki is the newest version.

Whenever I have to export my deck (then import it back after my edits), the hidden/hint field loses its formatting and becomes one large paragraph. (This does not happen with the other fields.)

For example, my hidden field is named "Notes" and in it is a list ordered with Note 1, Note 2, etc with a line of space in between:

NOTE 1: abc... <space > NOTE 2: xyz... <space > NOTE 3: 123...

After importing (spaces/order gone):

NOTE 1: abc...NOTE 2: xyz...NOTE 3: 123...

Has this happened to anyone else? Any suggestions on how to fix it? Thanks

So far, I have used Image Occlusion to Hide and Answer each element in the diagram. Curious about alternative methods that you guys would take. TIA.

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It may be because I didn't read the entire change log, but is it normal on FSRS v5 for the hard interval to be VERY close to the good interval? Generally, if the interval exceeds a month, the hard and good interval will essentially be the same. Even if the interval is around 15 months, the hard interval will be 14, and the good is 15. Just wanted to make sure this was normal. Note - On the latest version of the beta

I dont want to study 20 cards a day. Ive tried to raise the barrier, but it doesnt allow me to replay the cards after ive already quizzed them. Ive tried changing settings but i cant figure it out. Please help. Im considering switching to quizlet if this doesnt sort itself out. Is there seriously no Way to do it except Create a custom session? That sucks

I've been learning English, Latin, and Ancient Greek through Anki for a year and a half, and I consider myself to be (in the least) at an intermediate level in all of them. In addition to my language studies, I maintain a deck of cards that encompasses various subjects, including Mathematics, Physics, Literature, History, and trivia, alongside another deck specifically dedicated to the languages I'm learning.

At this point, I find myself contemplating the prospect of duplicating the cards from my subject-specific deck in the aforementioned languages, so that, for instance, if I have a card in my native language that defines a mathematical function, I would create corresponding cards in English, Latin, and/or Ancient Greek conveying the same definition.

I'm eager to ascertain whether this approach might effectively help improve my fluency in my target languages or if it'd prove to be a futile and wasteful endeavor. Thanks in advance for your insights.

I'm a newbie. Wondering how efficiently I can use Anki to break down important points from a long paragraph. Do tell me about the best mode for this job. Asking for tips and tricks from you all veterans. TIA.

Hi, I’m studying for a English test so I grabbed a shared deck (~7000 words) for it. But this deck is quite generalized so I already knew like half of them. I would click “easy” on these when they come up, but then I would study less words for the day. Is there someway I can configure it so these words aren’t counted for the daily quota?

I've been using AnkiDroid for over three years, and during that time, I’ve occasionally noticed cards I created had pairs of words missing a space between them. Initially, I assumed these were just my own typos. However, recently, almost every new card I create has missing spaces, especially in cards with a lot of text. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

Hi i have been trying to install a certain anki deck, however on my Windows surface on anki i always get the message the system cannot find the files os error 2. Any solutions ? Thanks in advance

I recently switched from windows to ubuntu. My collection on windows worked just fine. But now i can't get it work. The closest I got was using an addon called 'gTTS' but the speed is too slow and i can't chnage the speed.

Does linux not have any TTS whatever? I even installed Espeak through the terminals but no benefit.

I think I should just go back to windows

Hi I am a computer science student and I have linear algebra and analysis exams I would like to make flashcards on theorems, definitions etc. except that I do not know how to code in latex are there AI tools to generate Anki flashcards in latex with OCR or could I provide screenshots of important points from my courses etc. thanks in advance

I've been learning two languages for a few years, Italian and Chinese. And I have learnt English a few years ago.

And I noticed something: Anki has been recommended a lot during my learning, but looking back, it didn't really help me to learn new vocabulary. The thing that made me learn new vocabulary is just seeing the words used in context, either you read them in context, or your hear it in a podcast or on the Radio. You look up the word a few times, and then you hear it in context, and that's what makes it stick to your memory eventually.

But looking back, while Anki has been useful for other things (learning grammar, verb conjugation, and non-language related things like Geography, biology, etc.), it really didn't help me to learn a significant amount of new words. It was actually more of a waste of time since you also need to spend time to create new flashcards.

I also remember reading a Quora post a few years ago of someone who tried to learn Chinese, and he said the same thing. He tried Anki, made tons of flashcards, but eventually he just focused on reading words in context, and that's what made him learn new words.

It looks to me that the less similar your target language is to your current known language, the less useful Anki is. In other words, it looks like it may really help for "easy" languages like Spanish, Italian, etc. since there are many words that are similar to English or to the languages you already know. But for completely different languages like Chinese or Arabic, Anki doesn't really help to remember thousands of completely different words

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So in the picture above, are these the intervals everyone uses with regards to Again, Hard, Good and Easy?These are the base ones when you install the app.

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Hello, I hope I did the flair and posted it here right lol I've been looking for a solution to these, I've read threads and watched videos but I just can't seem to solve it alone. How do I fix this?

As the title says, I know that Micro has more buttons, but I want to know which one feels more comfortable and is easier to use with one hand only. Thanks.

It's really hard to summarize the work I have done since the last year. So I asked LLM to summarize the commit history.

1. Algorithm Improvements: FSRSv4 (Anki 23.10) -> FSRS-4.5 (Anki 23.12) -> FSRS-5 (Anki 24.10)
2. Performance Enhancements: performance improved by 50% cumulatively
3. User-Facing Features: optimal retention, simulator, true retention, easy days, forgetting curve visualization
4. Research: build SRS Benchmark & Anki Dataset, test a great number of ideas to improve FSRS

Here is my heat map at GitHub:

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I believe the most work of FSRS is now complete. Only two clouds remain: the short-term memory and better difficulty estimation.

Fluff: An eminent research engineer remarked that the future truths of spaced repetition are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals.

I'll follow my own pace, focus on my passion and reduce my commitment to others. I've felt good this past week.

If you appreciate my work, please consider becoming my Github Sponsor or donating on Ko-fi to support the continued development of FSRS.

Hi everyone. Quick question – I’m updating my Anki based gpt, Anki-X (currently has assisted 25k+ convos), and I’m deciding on the default card type. Do you guys use Basic or Cloze more? Thanks for the input.