I need help with sample pdf file to convert to anki format .apkg by AI Anything you did done by manual before. Thanks so much.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using the AnKing deck to prep for Step 2 and NBME exams, and I’m a bit overwhelmed by the number of tags available.

I’m currently in my final (6th) year, and I’ll be taking both the NBME exams and Step 2 at the end of this year. I’m also practicing UWorld questions alongside Anki, and my goal is to make my Anki preparation as thorough and comprehensive as possible.

I’m a bit confused about where to start. Should I focus on the Shelf tag, Resources by Rotation tag, or the other Step 2-specific tags?

Which tags have you found most useful and comprehensive for Step 2 and NBME prep?

I’d love to hear from anyone who has successfully used the AnKing deck for Step 2. Any advice on how to navigate these tags and focus my efforts would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Hello smart people! I'm actually not yet in medical school, but I wanted to share this with y'all: I use chat gpt to make a .csv file so I don't have to manually make flash cards. I copy paste my lecture notes (admittedly, I use the free version so I have to break it up into multiple sections because there's a word limit) into chat GPT and ask it to make cloze format anki cards that I can copy paste into a .csv file. I then import this into anki. Its pretty easy on mac! Please let me know if you'd like a demonstration! Unfortunately, I don't know how to do this on windows. Hope this helps <3

Noticed this with a couple different cards -- any ideas on why this is showing up incorrectly? It looks normal in the "edit" window but abnormal here.

https://preview.redd.it/r2mbd639qnge1.png?width=1888&format=png&auto=webp&s=b0837eb9024b33501f959f3baa2881b4be10ec5d

I’ve tried everything so far I feel like. Restarted Mac, anki, forget device in Bluetooth, downloaded and redownloaded contanki, upgraded and downgraded firmwares on the 8bitdo controller and still won’t work unless it is plugged into the Mac

I am taking the following courses:

Immunology & Microbiology

Pharmacotherapeutics

Gross Anatomy

I am pretty sure that these three courses overlap with most of the content that I will see as an M1 in med school so I was thinking using Anki may be worthwhile. Otherwise, would you reccomend that I make my own anki cards/decks for each of these courses?

Hello there,

Has anyone engineered a good cloze deletion note generation prompt in ChatGPT? If so, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could share. Preferably, a prompt that gives it a examples of what to do.

I don't wanna use these anki AI sites cause they're trash af. Meanwhile, I put in just 5 minutes creating a half-assed GPT prompt and the cards were decent.

I feel like no matter how much I study, I forget a ton of stuff after a few weeks, which makes prepping for exams and rotations stressful. Active recall + spaced repetition seem to work best, but manually making Anki cards takes forever.

Has anyone found a good way to streamline studying without spending hours making flashcards?

I can't really use premade decks like anking yet because my course for first year is a bit different, or should I sacrifice my uni's exams to use anking.

I am 18,000 cards into the AnKing deck, and I have been optimizing my FSRS parameters for a year and a half now. I originally had my desired retention at 90%, and I would regularly get around 85% retention on mature cards daily. I was getting overloaded with cards and decided to drop my retention rate to 80% to allow more time studying for lecture-relevant material. Ever since that change, my retention has slow gotten worse and worse, despite optimizing once a month.

Today is a new low, I hit 55% retention on mature cards with FSRS set to 80% desired retention. I regularly get around 65% retention on mature cards now.

Is anyone in a similar boat? Has anyone had to switch back to the old algorithm and found success in doing so, or has had to up their desired retention?

To add some nuance, if i sat down and took 30 seconds thinking through every card, I could achieve around 85-90% retention on mature cards with even with my desired retention set at 80%, but this is completely unrealistic with the amount of studying that has to be done. Most people I know can blast through cards at 90% retention with an average of 6 seconds per card.

Any advice on changes I could make to be more efficient or to fix my retention problem would be appreciated.

Hi guys I watched the anking videos on the filtered decks and I'm still a little confused. I know how to make one and filter for whatever cards I want etc. What I am confused about is if I have like 2k reviews due to a skipped day or whatever (life happened lol) but now I'm trying to do a filtered deck of 100 reviews at a time to just burn through the reviews. **Will the cards I do in the filtered deck act the same way as if I had done them in the original anking parent deck?** I do have the little reschedule option ticked when I make the filtered deck!

Thank you so much in advance for all the replies and help, I really appreciate it.

As the title says but I’ve Been looking around and haven’t gotten any luck. I know that there are flashcards on the website accessible to patreon members but is there any decks made specially from the books of zero to finals? Such as medicine, surgery, peads and whatnot?

Does anyone have the Pixorize fotl deck as an apkg? I downloaded the html file but I can’t get it to work for me and I only have an iPad. I have spent the last 12 hours to get it to work but I can’t figure it out. If anyone could help me out I would really appreciate it.

so guys i have an ipad as my main device , which anki step 1 deck is suitable and minimal to use with ipad , anking v12 is kinda toooo much for ipad , i hope if u know any minimal less headache deck ??

Hi everyone I'm starting MSK here at a US Med School! I was recommended to find the UMich Anki Deck - bluelink for Anatomy or something like that? Where can I find the most updated version or which version should I be downloading from the Internet? Thanks so much

Incoming M1 starting coming August. My school has integrated blocks like Neuro, Cards, ENT, MSK, Imm/Heme/ID. However, the first block is called "Foundational science". How would I keep up with lecture using AnKing Deck? I bought the v12 deck.

Have you got any recommendations about sites that let you see in specific muscle, articulations, bones etc..?

I'm using AnKing as my main study resource. I know when I add my own cards, it stays added in AnKing because the edits in AnKing are done via ID.

What happens if I edit an AnKing card? Does it shift back when you sync? And when I add a new card but use AnKing's format - will it get deleted if I sync? And on that note, how does one become a deck maintainer?

I downloaded the Complete Anatomy deck onto my desktop and tried to upload it onto AnkiWeb. It's not letting me. Any advice on what to do?

Has anyone used the #Cards_Anking_Did tag before? Currently on my IM rotation, it has 677 cards under the IM subtag.

Previously I’d mix the “#NBME” tag with the “!Shelf::IM” and create a deck of cards containing both tags, there is 286 cards of that. Not many overlapping cards between these two decks. Looking for advice thanks in advance!

I know there's the AI Smart Search feature on AnkiHub but, like many of you all, in-house faculty's material isn't anything like 3rd party. I've tried ChatGPT, but it's hit or miss tbh. I wanted to see if there's a better way to make in-house Anki cards (more efficiently, perhaps more accurately)?

Hi i recently subscribed to the anking, previously i was using an older version of the deck. It seems like my cards have updated and i didnt lose progress, but i mainly transitioned so i could search easier by Boards and Beyond videos specifically. Does anyone know how to get search these tags? When i do look up the B&B tags no cards come up, so i was wondering if anyone has come across this problem and how they got around it

currently studying pharmacology antibiotics 😭 can everyone share their mnemonics/tricks to remember anything and everything in this topic! like anything and everything is appreciated 🥹

Today, when I logged on to my anki, there was is 5-6 second delay before the TTS works. Does anyone know how to fix this? Also, let me know if you have been experiencing the same problem. It was working perfectly fine yesterday. Edit: I am using banking TTS that you enable through card types.

i have a desktop and a laptop that i use for school but sometimes I don't want to pull out my laptop just to sync ankihub, if ive been reviewing on my desktop.

step one checklist?

hii, does anyone happen to have or know the link to a comprehensive checklist for everything that’s to be done for step 1? feeling a little overwhelmed

just curious what you guys do when you read a card that you get wrong that you actually did know... I'm talking about clicking reveal too quick or misreading the card, NOT hindsight bias. also is there a correct thing you should do? (I mostly do bury but also do a mix of all 3 based on my mood, which I don't think is good hahaha).

Good day everyone!

I've watched Ali Abdaal's vids for quite some time now. He mentioned that in order to recall the topic he just read, he'd make questions in Notion (with the toggle feature) such as "what are the risk factors of cardiac arrest" and the answers are toggled. He also mentioned that it somehow resembles the Cornell note-taking method.

With that in mind, I wanna know if it's okay to skip writing notes about the topic and instead use Anki right away. For example, I'm studying about a disease and as I read through a section, I'll immediately make flashcards BUT with W H questions which are pretty much "recall questions".

In short, is it okay to skip the note-taking process and just directly make recall questions on Anki?

What are your thoughts on this?