I thought once I was done* learning German I didn't need Anki anymore, but all these years later I've come back and am feeling the benefits, it gets me off social media, doom scrolling and all that bad stuff while my mind active. I am now learning new languages, quotes etc. I hope I never leave again.
Been using Anki for languages for years. When I tried to memorize chess openings the same way, standard card decks didn't work well : a position without context is hard to review meaningfully.
So I built something where instead of "front/back" cards, you see a board position and have to play the correct move. SM-2 tracks each position individually and schedules reviews based on how fast you recalled it.
The ratings map directly to SM-2 quality scores (0-5): Fail / Very Hard / Hard / Correct / Good / Perfect.
Retention after 3 weeks of daily reviews is noticeably better than when I was just replaying lines in a database.
Anyone else tried SRS for chess specifically? Curious if the algorithm needs tweaking for motor memory vs pure recall.
knightline.app if you want to see the implementation.
Hi!
I need some help adjusting and optimizing Anki settings for my internal medicine board exams.
I have 8 decks (1 deck per specialty) with anywhere from 200-600 cards/deck. I have already studied all 8 decks for the first part of my exam which was a month ago but for the last month I have not done any Anki at all.
My next exam is at the end of May and I need to start Anki again. The last time I studied these cards, I felt I was not being asked certain cards at all and then other cards were repeating much more.
My current settings are: FSRS 80%, learning steps 10 min, 1 day, 3 days.
My questions are:
How can FSRS be optimized?
If I do 4 decks/day and alternate days, how can I optimize settings since Anki is meant to be done daily, not every other day?
How can I ensure I am being shown cards more regularly that I do not know?
I’ve got about a month to revise for linear algebra + prob and stats exams, and I’m trying to work out the most effective strategy.
in second year right now and didn't try much both in 1st and 2nd year so i have to relearn from foundation a lot of the 1st year content.
rather than just panic-cover everything badly, what advice/tips would be best for my context?
any help at all would be greatly appreciated :)
I needed a plugin to enhance my Anki cards during review with a possibility to retry the generation and have many different prompts attached to different buttons. I think generating fields in bulk in the browser is not that good. I prefer to generate during review, as many times as needed until I'm satisfied (especially with mnemonics). The buttons are right there on the card so there's no need to exit to the editor or browser. I couldn't find anything like that so I built my own thing and it's doing a pretty good job for me so far, so I thought I'd share with the community.
It's open source (MIT) and allows you to set your own OpenRouter API key for unlimited use with any model. There's also a free account option (300 requests/month) to try it without dealing with keys. I'm paying for that myself though, so it might not last forever if costs get out of hand :)
Source code: github.com/thehustleregg/ankirevai
AnkiWeb code: 1059061770 (Anki 24.06+)
AI Automation for Anki: improve lots of notes faster with AI-powered Browser actions and workflows
Demo video:
You can use it for things like:
The main idea is simple: improve lots of notes faster without manually rewriting everything by hand.
You can select notes in the Anki Browser, right-click, and use Transform with AI for a one-off run, or create reusable workflows that run against Browser selections, saved searches, or workflow groups.
Some of the main features:
Transform with AI directly from the Browseroverwrite, append, and skip if target field not emptyIf you already use Anki and want easier AI-assisted note maintenance inside the app itself, this might be useful.
I know that there are many tools to turn .apkg files into CSV files to work with databases, just wanted to ask which tool have you used before and which one worked smoothly?
I wanted to extract data from one .apkg file from shared decks and edit it, to use it for my own learning goals.
Any advice would be appreciated!
I watch a lot of video lectures and I had a problem with taking notes. I'd have to pause the video, switch tabs to Notion or Google Docs, write something down, then go back and find where I was. Half the time I'd miss something or just stop taking notes because it broke my focus.
So I built a Chrome extension that lets me take notes right next to the video without leaving the tab. Every note saves the exact timestamp automatically. I just write and keep watching. Later I can search all my notes and click to jump back to the exact moment.
That part is solved. But now I have all these notes and I still forget what's in them after a few weeks.
I've been hearing about Anki and spaced repetition. I've never used it but it sounds like it could solve the remembering part.
For those of you who use Anki with lectures, how does your workflow look? Do you turn your notes into cards? Would it be useful if I added a way to export video notes directly into Anki?
I built AI Automation, an Anki add-on that helps you update and improve notes with AI directly inside Anki.
If you've ever wanted to:
- clean up messy cards
- rewrite explanations more clearly
- improve cloze cards
- optimize cards for retention
- generate better field content
- run the same prompt across lots of notes
that's exactly what AI Automation is for.
You can select notes in the Anki Browser, right-click, and use `Transform with AI` to send a prompt and write the result back into one or more fields.
It also supports saved workflows, so instead of repeating the same setup every time, you can create reusable automations for specific note types, searches, workflow groups, or recurring study tasks.
## Highlights
- Run AI transforms from the Browser on selected notes or cards
- Save reusable prompts and system prompts
- Write results to one or multiple fields
- Use `append`, `overwrite`, or `skip if target field not empty`
- Preview estimated token and cost usage before sending
- Process notes in batches with retries and timeouts
- Run reusable workflows from saved searches and optional triggers
The goal is simple: make it easier to maintain a high-quality Anki collection without doing all the repetitive editing by hand.
If you already use Anki and OpenAI, I'd love to hear what kinds of note transformations or workflow ideas you'd want most.
I realize this is probably a really stupid question.
But I hear that so many people use hierarchal tags, etc. for filtered decks and I get it.
I tried a long time ago and I realized i just spent more time trying to organize than actually study.
So now I have 1 deck for my current class and another deck for all my previous classes. All tags say one word: nursing
I have another deck for Spanish, and it literally says: spanish.
Is it okay to have them basic in this manner?
Pretty crazy but i have about 30k cards, albeit none of them have more tags than the above lol.
can someone guide me or Anyone here whom I can send msgs when I want to ask regarding anki ,how to Use?
I'm struggling to figure out how to use the Anki app! I want to benefit from it but I don't know how to use it.... I'm screwed 😭 HELP
As the title says, this app blocks you from opening your social media apps (or whatever apps you choose) until you have completed your daily review for your chosen Anki deck(s).
I may charge for this in future but for now it is free, you can download it from the website ankgate.com.
It only works for android but you can sign up for the iOS waitlist if you're interested.
Let me know if you have trouble downloading it.
Hi guys. I hope that someone can help me.
I would like to write the formulas directly into ANKI (on my IPad).
Image Occlusion wouldn’t be ideal since I cannot forget any formula by mistake.(My Uni doesn’t allow open book exams or cheat sheets. You have to know everything by heart.)
And I really don’t want so type everything out (typing formulas is just the worst)
Ideally I would like to modify the card in the future.
Has anyone an idea how to accomplish that?
Hello! I've been using Anki to study Japanese, and it's really helped a lot.
I'm going to be tutoring a Japanese student in English soon, and I wanted to recommend a spaced-repetition style program since it helped me so much. I think Anki has the ability to change the menus to Japanese, but I was wondering if it was something a native speaker would be able to use or if it is still focused on people learning Japanese?
Or is there a similar program I can recommend for a Japanese person trying to learn English?
Hi everyone,
I noticed something strange with my Anki settings and wanted your opinion.
I used to have my learning step set to 1 minute, and I was able to remember cards quite well. It felt easier and more natural.
Recently, I changed it to 15 minutes (because many people recommend it), but now I feel like it became much harder. When the card comes back after 15 minutes, I can barely remember anything, and I feel like I’m forcing myself too much just to recall even one point.
Is this normal? Does it mean that 15 minutes is not suitable for me, or am I doing something wrong?
my exams after 2.5 month and i really should do every thing correctly bc theres no time , i do the deck in my won and after my review i need two months to do decks and in the same moment i study them! so i literaly need answers
Thanks!
