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https://apps.ankiweb.net/ is what got me through university. The flash cards can be synced to mobile devices and the software keeps track of how well you know every single card.
<strong>Anki</strong>, it's a flashcard program for memorizing, well, anything. extremely good if you are studying subjects like geography, medicine or history and want to remember a lot of facts. It has both a desktop and mobile app with online sync, and the best thing is that it is open-source completely free.
Funny that you'd mention it – this is actually a feature! The intent is to provide students with a sense of pride and accomplishment for completing their Anki cards for the day.
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On a more real note: You need to upgrade your Anki release, either to 2.0.51+, or Anki 2.1. Here's what the changelog had to say about this issue:
> Changes in 2.0.51
> Released 2018-03-26
> Windows-only release that works around a toolkit bug that was causing ping spikes every ten seconds for some Windows users. If upgrading from a previous version, please uninstall the previous version prior to installing 2.0.51. Uninstalling will not delete your user data.
Jup, die Methode heißt Spaced repetition system und ist echt praktisch weil es einem ne Menge unnötiges Gelerne erspart. Kann nur Anki empfehlen, ist ein Flashcard Programm mit integriertem srs das gratis und 100% customisierbar ist und ne Menge gute addons hat.
Und genieß das Hiraganalernen bevor du in die Hölle geworfen wirst die Kanji sind :P
Well, this is it, folks! The stable release of Anki 2.1 is finally here.
For a list of changes compared to the final release candidate please see here. For previous discussions on 2.1 and the changes it brings please feel free to checkout the beta release threads.
Anki has got me through a lot of difficult studying periods particularly because I have a tendency to get far too caught up in aiming for perfection and can easily run out of time to cover all the material. Anki helps me break the cycle of repeatedly covering the same material too often.
Anki is the app that you're looking for:
It's a memorizing app that can be used with any "deck" of stuff to remember. You can use decks that other people have put together. Here are all the decks that match "python":
Move up, no question!
The 1.x classes would be an absolute waste of your time.
It's a good idea to complement the course with SRS, something like Anki. You'll catch up to your class mates in no time.
You should probably use Anki to review your vocabulary. This way you'll review your vocabulary just when you need it, and quickly figure out if you're trying to learn too much or not.
There's an FAQ entry in the Anki manual:
> ###Why is the Android version free when the iPhone version isn’t? > Working on Anki desktop, AnkiWeb and AnkiMobile is my full time job, and I need some way of paying the bills. Since I make the desktop & web versions available for free, I rely on sales of the iPhone app in order to finance development. > > AnkiDroid is written by a separate group of volunteers. Since they based it on the free desktop version I make available (and rely on AnkiWeb in order to synchronize decks), they decided to make it freely available as well.
this has been discussed many, many times. It's unlikely that you'll quickly get all the good answers. you could search this subreddit and the official forum at anki.tenderapp.com
some ideas:
- I don't like resetting because this wastes time. I would go over it once, rate honestly. Maybe you'll remember some which will save a lot of time Use deck options (like Lapse - New interval 0%") that effectivly reset the card to learning.
- you might wonder about the large intervals: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#i-haven%E2%80%99t-studied-for-a-while,-and-now-the-next-due-times-are-too-big
- if you don't like these you can remove the bonus on desktop with the add-on MentalPause: No bonus for being late
- I don't care if I finish all of my due reviews on a given day. I only try to make sure to review cards that have very short intervals: If I have an interval of a day and I review a day late that makes a huge difference. If I have an interval of 127 days it makes no difference to review after 129 days. On the desktop there's the add-on "hoochieMama" for this (or the older "Change order of review cards in regular decks")
Anki.
This is a flash card program that uses a spaced repetition algorithm to help you memorize lots of words fairly quickly. That sounds gimmicky, but it really isn't. It's one of the most popular tools for people studying new languages and for people cramming for med school exams.
The idea is that you can have a long list of items you're studying (maybe thousands or even tens of thousands of words if you're studying a language), so you obviously can't review everything every day. So, the program keeps track of how well you perform when quizzed over each word, and it adjusts the time between reviews accordingly. Harder words show up more often. Get a word right consistently and it gets pushed back further, since you obviously don't need to practice it as badly.
Spaced repetition is what brought me from being pretty terrible at studying languages to very good. Anki implements a good (and flexible) SRS algorithm.
RTFM: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#backups
> Each time your collection is closed (when closing Anki, switching profiles, or synchronizing your deck), Anki exports your collection into the backups folder. By default Anki will store up to 30 backups
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> Anki also logs deleted notes to a text file called deleted.txt in your profile folder. These notes are in a text format that can be read by File>Import, though please note the import feature only supports a single note type at one time, so if you have deleted notes from different note types, you’ll need to split the file into separate files for each note type first.
I'm aware of this but is that alone a good reason to not mention one of the best studying apps at all? You don't even have to use it on your phone, most people who own an iPhone also own a PC, right?
> If you can't afford the app, you can still use AnkiWeb.
If you're studying for a trip, why not get a phrasebook or list of common/useful terms and study from that? "A word a day" isn't going to be a very good study aid or entirely applicable for what you'd use on a trip (which depends in part on where you want to go and what kind of stuff you want to do); something like flashcards would likely be more effective.
For example, I've heard some good things about Anki. If you're willing to put in some work you could make your own flashcard set without any ローマ字, or with some searching I'm sure you could find some sets that other people have made.
So, I haven't done any proper history study, but I'm pretty sure the answer should be spaced repetition. Basically flashcards that follow a spacing algorithm so you only see them when you need to. The application Anki has become popular for language learning and for medical students, but should be good for anything you want to remember long-term. See r/Anki.
do you think you could support reading anki's flashcard format? https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html
Not the entire spec but plaintext alone would be awesome... there isn't really a nice tui client out there as far as I'm aware
> I mostly just use Duolingo now for all my languages
This sentence concerns me the most. How many languages are you learning at once? Because Japanese on its own is already pretty hard.
That said, here's my general advice on how get going with Japanese. This is definitely not optimal, nor inclusive, but I feel like it is easy to stick to.
- Learn hiragana and katakana until pretty much prefect. (You probably already have this down.)
- Download Anki and the Core 2K deck. Just like Duolingo, you have to log in on Anki every day to practice your words. Anki's interface might not be that "cool" (which is better in my opinion), but learning with Anki is better in my opinion. Duolingo has gained a reputation for not being very good for Japanese.
- While doing the Core 2K deck, read through Tae kim's grammer guide. You don't need to fully grasp each section. Just get familiar with the concepts and try to recognize them in the sentences you encounter (e.g. in the core 2K deck). Feel free to read through it multiple times.
> I'm sorta stuck at knowing how to write basic sentences I suppose.
Don't bother too much with trying to write or talk yet. Try to focus on understanding first. You'll be able to pick up much of the talking and writing naturally as your understanding grows.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
> I will never forget it.
I hope you have a substantial forgetting rate, check the calculations about the retention rate and workload at https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#reviews
also interesting from Michael Nielsen, http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
> On average, I get about 1 in 12 cards wrong, so by the 12th card we're up to about 2.49 = 2,642 days between reviews. Note that we raise to the 9th power rather than the 12th power, because it's not until the third repetition of a card that the interval reaches 1 day. If you sum those intervals all up, it suggests the typical time between failed reviews is about 12 years.
Use an SRS program like Anki.
Put your phrases in there, and practice writing them when you review each card. Be honest when you select if you got it correct, and it will track how often to show you each item in the deck based on how well you perform.
Have a look into Anki for the spaced repetition, it's a free app on computers and Android and looks after the intervals. Have a look on YouTube there are lots of videos on how people use it for different topics.
Spaced Repetition Software, usually Anki, the revered holy grail of memorization. Any self-respecting language learner, nay, any self-respecting learner dedicates their life and mind to the perfecting of their flashcards. Without the SRS, we are nothing; our minds fail to anchor knowledge, leaving memory as chaff to the fierce wind of time. The forgetting curve is a ruthless master: we are slaves to the algorithm. Oh, SM2, thou art perfection, my dearest, and Ebbinghaus thy prophet: heaven's angels are but dimly-lit in comparison with thy holy majesty. Thou canst not dwindle in our minds. We perform thy rites faithfully, augmenting our decks with our flashcards daily crafted with utmost care.
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basically digital flashcards. see /r/Anki
According to the anki manual:
> When people return to their deck after weeks or months of no study, they’re often surprised by the length intervals have grown to. This is because Anki considers the actual time the card was unseen, not just the time it was scheduled for. Thus if the card was scheduled for 5 days but you didn’t study for a month, the next interval will be closer to 60 days than 10 days.
> This is a good thing. If you have successfully remembered a card after a one month wait, chances are you’ll remember it again after a longer wait, too. The same principles which make SRS effective in normal use apply when you’re studying after a delay, too. It also makes little sense to schedule a card for 10 days in the future if you were able to easily answer it after a whole month’s wait - you’d be going backwards.
I never reset cards.
You have to find out for yourself. This depends on your dedication, when you have time to learn, your needs, your constitution, how long/difficult your cards are, etc.
In Anki 2.0.50 the default for new profiles was changed to 200 reviews/day, see https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/changes.html
If I remember correctly the first spaced repetition software named supermemo talks that most people can't handle more than 200-300 reviews daily in the long run.
maybe this is of some interest:
I use Anki mainly on Desktop. I set my maximum daily reviews to 999 and use the addon Change order of review cards in regular decks and adjusted the code so that my reviews are ordered by increasing intervals. So I don't care if I finish all of my due reviews on a given day. When the intervals are quite long I don't think that there's a substantial difference between viewing a card say after 124 (as scheduled) or 128 days. But I try to do reviews each day so that I do the cards that have very small intervals.
First, congratulations. You have set some reasonable medium-term goals and are working towards them. This is the most vital step. You've also knocked the kana out of the way, so you're chugging along at a nice pace.
>want to get everyone's advice on a structured plan to be able to take the N5 (or better) in a few months.
Genki I alone should give or take, get you through N5 (very roughly). Genki I and II should take you through N4 (very roughly). Of course, any additional resources you get your hands on will of course supplement those and help round out any rough areas.
>I find the reading alone to not stick as well as I'd like.
Practice more. I believe there are Genki workbooks that should help a lot.
>How should I study?
Read lesson, review. Make flash cards. Review flash cards. Take practice session. Take end-of-chapter review quiz. Repeat.
I strongly suggest Anki for flashcards. The computer version is free, but the iOS app is $25 (and you can use their free web service even if you wanted to. Consider the app a donation to the author if you found the program helpful.)
This is good advice. When you learn something from one source, and then encounter the information again from another source, it confirms that you learned the information. Additionally, by noticing differences in the way the same information is presented, it forces you to compare and contrast the two sources of information which further solidifies the information in your mind.
Spaced repetitions are also very important. Be sure to check out Anki.
I don't remember much about my Duolingo experience with Japanese, but from what I can remember it's kinda slow when you're starting compared to Anki flashcards and the Genki I and II books. Then again I barely touched Duolingo and I'm still on the 2nd Chapter of Genki(because I like to procrastinate) so take this with a grain of salt.
Edit: If you want to learn Japanese and want more resources, try checking out r/LearnJapanese.
That's a great idea. Thanks for the tip.
If you use more and longer learning steps than the default (so that you have still some due on the next day or later) you will run into this problem unless you use the experimental scheduler of 2.1:
> unless you are using the experimental scheduler, [filtered decks] can not pull in cards that are in (re)learning. For this reason, a search in the browser may reveal cards that don’t end up in the filtered deck.
Source: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#creating-manually
I've started using anki, which is pretty solid. After each question you can rate how hard you find it, which determines how often that question will come up. You can also get it on your phone which is useful.
How about using something like spaced repetition software? Anki is a brilliant app that will prioritise the words that you feel are most difficult (link here) and bring them up more often so that you can memorise them. I think you can get it for Android and iOS
It's a repeated exposure/spaced repetition learning flashcard software. Kind of like Quizlet, except you rank your confidence with material once you do a flashcard and based on your confidence, that impacts the next time you'll see that card. I'd recommend that you try it out by downloading Anki to your computer (https://apps.ankiweb.net/) or phone as an App (it's definitely free for Android users) and download someone's Anki deck from r/mcat (see sidebar for premed95 Anki Deck). See how you like it. If you do, then there are lots of tutorials online that show you how to use it.
Personally, I used Anki at the start of my studies but found I liked Quizlet better because I wasn't using flashcards as my primary mode of study and Quizlet offered quick flashcards I could do on my walks to class or work, as well as the games on there for the flashcards you make.
If you are committed, yes.
Biology is about two things:
- Memorising the content
- Answering the question in the way they want you to
I would recommend Anki to memorise the content and doing as many exam questions as you possibly can to learn technique. I am doing a similar thing with history using Anki and it is going well so far although I only started at the start of June.
Also, if you don’t have support from your school then it will be a lot harder as it is useful to bother your teachers for learning resources and help with the content.
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Sounds like you should be able to handle native content, you don't need any apps with pre-made learning materials.
Watch movies, read books, listen to audio books. You'll want to have lots of exposure.
Additionally, find a language partner and have casual conversations. Also think about what you did in English to advance it, you wrote book reports, essays, etc.
Do that in Spanish as well. It doesn't have to be dry, you could explain to your language partner exactly why you liked a particular character from a book you recently read, etc. be creative.
You can supplement all that with SRS like Anki
Take some time to master Anki's search criteria - it's something I wish I did earlier and it will be a huge time saver for you as you go forward.
In this case you would want to search a specific field that contains the item you're looking for. I didn't download the deck so I don't know what it's called in this case, but for my anatomy cards it would be Structure:Trapez* which tells Anki "Search only the "structure" field for anything that starts with "trapez" which is a unique enough name that it should come up quickly...
If you were searching for "anterior scalene" however you'd want to use search criteria that like "'Structure:*scalene'" (ends with "scalene") or "Structure:anterior_scal*" (starts with "anterior scal") to find what you're looking for.
For your second question, if you right click the top row of the browser you can choose what criteria are visible. The deck should be tagged according to the CSV file.
EDIT: formatting
Exactly. Add to this that old cards are usually the ones you will have the least problems answering, and there really is no reason to cap your intervals. If you want to optimize your retention rate, it's much better to tweak the interval modifier as this applies globally.
Just save it to any folder.
Make sure you have downloaded the app from https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Once it is installed on your computer, open it, then you can click on the file and it will add it to anki
I always sucked at memorizing stuff for school. I could understand the concepts easily enough, but having to recite poems by heart for literature class, was the bane of my existence. Same for years in history, location names in geography etc.
Some stuff that worked for me includes flash cards (try Anki) and in general trying to make a game of it. Maybe pretend I'm presenting it for someone or something like that. Grabbing a piece of paper and writing down as much as I can remember, and then "grading myself".
I can't comment about learning Swedish since I am a native. But learning any language will force you to learn a lot of words.
There are a lot of different studies about this and there are also different ways to define a word. For example, is "springa" and "sprang" two different words or only one. What if you learn multiple words for the same thing? Like "fordon" and "fortskaffningsmedel"?
So to learn any language to have a simple conversation you need between 1000 to 3000 words. And the more you know, the better.
How you get to 3000 or 5000 or even 10 000 words doesn't matter, as long as you study as much as you can without burning yourself out. If duolingo and memrise works for you, then great!
Both duolingo and memrise are versions of SRSes/Spaced Repetition Applications and should work fine for learning words.
Personally I am using an SRS called Anki to learn 10 new words a day. It works great and is very flexible. In Anki you can make a template and then import a spreadsheet to create thousands of cards automatically. Or you can use a deck that someone else has compiled, just like duolingo/memrise.
Remember, learning a language is not a sprint, it is a marathon. So plan for that.
For vocabulary you should 100% use anki. You can have a customized vocab training session every day that adjusts itself according to the responses you give it. Words that you remember easily will be shown less frequently and vice versa. There´s also some customization but I haven´t gone too deep into that.
You can either download ´decks´ of ´cards´ for it to train you on, or build your own deck from the words you´re learning. If you happen to be learning German I have a recommendation for a good deck.
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For grammar it depends on the language but in my experience paid apps are worth it. I paid 26$ for three months of babbel for German and I don´t regret it at all.
For Spanish I used Wlingua which was great and even cheaper if I remember correctly. It´s available for fewer languages though.
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Anyway, the important thing for me is that I´m getting something concrete every time I use the app. Duolingo puts so much emphasis on being light and fun that it´s just not very substantial.
We could waste a lot of time guessing. The only chance of getting a real answer is if you post much more info.
- what are your deck settings? Post screenshots of all tabs.
post a screenshot of the info window for this card from the browser and some other affected cards.
general info, good chance that it's irrelevant here: about the number you see in the due column: "The due column behaves differently for different types of cards. New cards show a number rather than a due date, which indicates the order the new cards will be presented in. " https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#card-list
Ignore rules and tables.
You want exposure and Cloze Deletion flashcards.
You realize that approach is effective when you read a grammar book every now and then and you go... oh well, of course that's how you do it!
I still read grammar books from time to time, but really mostly to verify I'm on the right track. Only seldom do I read topics I don't know yet. I have a hard time understanding grammar while it's explained to me. I have to get exposure and begin to feel it.
Anki is open source and supports Cloze sentences.
Useful link: Anki Manual - Cloze Deletion
Another useful link: Bulk Generating Cloze Deletions with Anki
This might fit the bill. EDIT: added links.
I haven't gone into the really fancy stuff, like memory walks and similar, but I've found spaced repetition systems to be very effective (specifically Anki).
Once you finish the books and put some time into the practice, do you think you could report back? I've been thinking of getting MWE, but haven't been sure about it.
Card background is determined by the note type, not the deck. You can change it by going to the browse menu, choosing a card of the desired note type, clicking "Cards..." and modifying the "background-color" field under Styling. Styling is shared across all cards in a note.
If you want each deck to have a unique color, you'll need to create a new note type for each deck.
/u/Andmc88 hit a lot of good points!
For reference, I'm in third year studying Physiology/Pharmacology taking what I feel are pretty heavy memorization courses (Phys 3120, 3140, Pharm 3620, etc). Application questions make up a good chunk of questions, but you still need to know the tiny details in order to work through them.
In terms of your questions:
A few of my friends are absolute beasts who can cram material a day before and somehow come out with a 95%, but they're definitely the minority.
I didn't necessarily cram my first two years, but I found my studying to be really ineffective. I'd just casually scroll through notes or powerpoints once a week and call it a day. Definitely no bueno and I had to force myself to switch up my methods.
In my case, I use an app called Anki to make flashcards. Basic concept is that new cards pop back up often, while cards that you know well come up less frequently. I think they call it spaced repetition? I'll hit my day's quota of cards in like an hour before/between/after class and spend the rest of the day going over new lectures/making more cards.
By the time exam time rolls around, I find myself pretty well off in terms of the little details. I'll go over all my cards once or twice, then go over the ones I had trouble with, and finish off by reviewing diagrams and misc. powerpoint images. No more hardcore cramming haha.
I find this leaves me with a clear focus on what I NEED to complete for the day, which was crucial for me. It also kept me from scrolling through pages of notes thinking that it was sticking.
Let me know if you want some guidance on how to set Anki up and get used to its day-to-day use!
I tried using it for Spanish before moving here, but it was neither Castilian, nor a recognizable Latin American usage, so I gave up on it, and have since used other resources for Spanish and any subsequent language. PArticularly, I like Anki
I agree with /u/FantaFriday - book your exam near the end of this year, and start studying for an hour or two every day. I highly recommend giving /u/Wax_Trax's "On Learning: Creating Meaningful Flash Cards" blog post (as well as the rest of his On Learning series) a read, then follow through with it and create some flash cards using your tool of choice.
Creating flash cards is a great way to help retain knowledge, but you must review them on a daily basis! Anki is a great tool for efficiently memorizing terms and concepts, I recommend giving it a try.
From AnkiDroid documentation: >AnkiDroid allows you to type in the correct answer and then compare it to the right answer. You have to set this up with Anki desktop, as described in the Anki Desktop manual.
The Anki documentation has a section on this: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#manydecks
Basically, broad categories (i.e. few large decks) are better than lots of little decks because it avoids reviewing things in a recognisable order, and Anki will slow down if you add lots of decks.
That bit of the documentation recommends using tags/fields to sort things within a deck.
> Pick a batch of kanji. I recommend using the kyouiku grades as a guide.
The one I've heard to use to learn is Anki, which is pretty much a digital flashcard app.
But I've not tried. My weeb level is too low
Anki + Morphman + Core10k deck with a Japanese sentence on the front and meaning & audio on the back
Mirrored Cards? As in, reversed cards? I think you can bury them so it's siblings won't show up.
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https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#siblings-and-burying
You need to use the "basic (and reverse)" note type: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#note-types.
If you already have a collection of preexisting cards, you can change their note type and their sibling cards will be created automatically.
- Definitely, do not Brute force Zanki. Rule's #1 and #2: Do not learn if you don't understand and Learn before you memorize.
- You're far ahead of the ball, I wish I had been. I personally would take the time right now to go and read the Anki Manual, and watch all the videos on AnKing's Youtube Channel. I wish I had taken the time before starting school to actually learn about the program and all of its settings. The idea is once you start you don't stop, you have to maintain your reviews every single day.
- For school, I don't do lectures, I'll obviously follow along in the sense of what topics are being covered. But then I'll watch Boards and Beyond to get a first pass at the material. If Pathology, I'll watch Pathoma. If Physiology, Constanzo Physio book. If Bugs and Drugs, I'll do Sketchy. And then do the associated cards, usually trying to finish a few days before exams. During my day's I'll also just run through lecture slides to see if I missed anything I thought might be important, if so I'll add a few cards. Then the best way to assess knowledge is by doing practice questions, I would do either USMLE-Rx or Kaplan. I plan on leaving UWorld for 2nd year and getting through it twice before end of dedicated.
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Hope that helps, PM me if you got any questions
I really don't like to reduce "reduce reviews/day". If some decks are not important anymore I would increase the interval modifier, lower the leech threshold and suspend leeches. Check the calculations at https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#reviews
Most of my Japanese came from self-study.
As far as learning hiragana and katakana, I studied them by following the stroke order and writing out the characters a load of times then started a system where I would fill out a blank chart every day with no guide then corrected it, rewriting the chart correctly. At first, all of my characters were wrong but after repeating this, I learned them all off easily enough. I was in middle school(?) at the time so I was a bit tight on study time, truth told. Flash cards are great. Anki is amazing.
Take it step-be-step and don't let kanji intimidate you! I can't tell you how many kanji I learned from exposure. They get easier to learn, the more you know. Trying to read children's books, looking at manga online. A book that helped kick off my own kanji learning was Kanji de Manga. idk how outdated it is now but I remember loving it.
Make sure you speak out loud and learn how to pronounce things. Studying on my own gave me little cause to say words to anyone when I realised I was pretty unsure of my pronunciation. I was a shy student and Hello Talk and all of that stuff didn't exist so I read outloud for no one a lot.
Though, at the end of the day, if you enjoy what you're studying I do reccomend trying to take a class at some point. Having a native speaker to correct you, connect what you know together, to teach details of culture, these things are invaluable.
Yes, you should take a peek at the manual regarding note types: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#note-types
Basically, every card comes from a note, and that note has a note type. The note type defines the fields, meaning all the notes of a given note types will always have the same fields in the same order.
If you want to change the fields of notes in one deck but not some other deck, they need to have different note types.
You can simply create a new note type as a copy from the one you are using right now.
Then, change the note type of all notes in deck A to the new note type.
After that, you can edit the fields of the notes in deck A without affecting deck B at all.
learning is work and quite often work is not fun. That's life. At least Anki is one of the most effective forms of learning. Knowing this might be soothing. You might spend time for school or university in a more enjoyable way but often times this is just wasted time: re-reading or highlighting are very ineffective techniques. You learn the most with active recall testing that's challenging.
I'm also a big fan of adjusting the settings. But only do this if you know what you do. I have seen some horrible stuff here. Read this https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#reviews carefully.
I have used Anki with dozens of add-ons for many years without ever having such a problem. I have read many threads in this subreddit and can't remember such a problem.
It's expected that if Anki crashes you lose some cards. Usually that's no problem because usually Anki doesn't crash. Maybe the add-on Increase autosave frequency with the description "may be useful to those experiencing frequent crashes or the particularly paranoid" is useful for you ... Haven't tried it though.
If you want help about the actual problem much more details are needed. I know narrowing down on bugs can be time consuming ....
- if you are not on 2.0.52 or 2.1.5 update and try again
- Try without add-ons: "If you are experiencing problems with Anki, you might want to disable add-ons temporarily to see if one might be causing the problem. You can do both of these things by holding down the Shift key while starting Anki." https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#startup-options Does this help? If so: Move the addons to a different folder. And then move one after another back and try again each time. Then you should see which add-on causes this problem. Then delete/remove this add-on.
- If you use 2.0.52 try with 2.1 and vice versa. Does this help?
- What OS do you use? Be precise like "windows 10 version 1709" or MacOS "10.12.1"
- has this started recently or was it like this since you use anki?
- does any other software crash randomly? any other strange behavior on your machine?
- the manual is your friend: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#study-overview
- yes because "it's not possible to suspend your memory, so memories will continue to decay if you don't revise", see https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/im-going-on-vacation-can-i-pause-the-scheduler
- no (and yes): It doesn't work with default decks unless you use the deck option maximum interval which I find very bad/inefficient. I would use a filtered deck before an exam. Here is what I would do.
two days instead of three can be explained by this:
https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#due-counts-and-time-estimates
> Anki additionally adds a small amount of random variation to the next due times, in order to prevent cards that were introduced together and always rated the same from always staying next to each other. This variation is not shown on the time estimates but will be applied after selecting the button.
But I think one day instead of three isn't used if I understand the fuzz-function of the relevant source code file correctly ...
Anki Universal is also not an official Anki app, see https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/ankiuniversal-is-not-supported-here-2
On the desktop I would only use spaced repetition software that I downloaded from https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Thank you! I think that the "English IPA" add-on my be of a great use for English language learners. Keep up with the great work :)
I would be happy to try it out on Anki 2.1 and give some feedback, though the text on the website reads "Only supports Anki 2.0.x.". Would it be possible for you to create a version for Anki 2.1 too? Btw, here is the documentation part describing how to develop addons for Anki 2.1.
and where does your card come from ... ?
Maybe a shared deck from a user who chose to export not only the cards but also his reviews a couple of months ago? Then Anki calculates your next interval based on the time difference to this last review.
In general this shouldn't happen for new cards ...
Maybe during an import there should be a dialog like "Do you want to import prior reviews" ....
you could reschedule all cards from the reviewer, https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#other-menu-items
First of all, are you aware that Anki has a "type out the answer" feature? Have a look at https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#checking-your-answer
Could you elaborate on your reasons for wanting to type out the answer though?
I would assume this would only slow your reviews down without much benefit. My average answer time is 6.6s - Having to type out the answer would at least double this time. I would much rather just double the amount of cards reviewed than practicing typing.
But obviously it depends on the lang you're learning. I get that it's different when you're studying a lang with a different script.
If you really feel the need to type, maybe you could create a Note in Anki that has a field for "optional type out?" which in turn creates a "type out" kind of card. Kind of like the default "optional reverse card". That would allow you to enable it for certain notes, but not having to type everything.
Alternatively just create a special type-out note which you can use for words you absolutely must know how to spell correctly.
anki allows you to create decks, and there might even be already created ones. you can add sound and images.
its probably not as pretty as this ;)
if you dont like this, you can search on google for "anki memrise" to find more apps like this.
Anki, senza dubbio.
Ed essendo una lingua, ti direi che la cosa migliore è fare pratica. Se non puoi andare in giappone per mille motivi (a partire da tempo e soldi), può essere un'idea frequentare comunità online, o anche trovarsi un penPal. Ogni tanto vedo qualcuno che prova a fare ste cose, in varie lingue
For Japanese, Duolingo is pretty worthless as the only thing you'll learn is some phrases and vocab. If you're actually interested in seriously learning Japanese long-term, I'd recommend checking out other resources like the Genki textbooks or online grammar guides like Tae Kim's Grammar Guide.
For Kanji, try things like WaniKani or make your own Anki deck. Feel free to PM if you're interested in other free online resources, I've collected quite the list by now.
intervals should be random.
The manual states: "Review cards are always shown in random order. ... More specifically, Anki randomizes reviews by grabbing batches of 50 cards in the order that they exist in the database, randomizing each batch, then putting them together. This means that there is a slight bias towards older cards being shown first, but it prevents individual cards from showing up in a predictable order."
What is "older cards"? I'm not sure, probably cards that were generated earlier. They tend to have higher intervals but not necessarily: Maybe you imported a deck that you didn't use, maybe you rescheduled etc.
You can change this with an the addon Change order of review cards in regular decks: "sorts the review cards in a regular deck in order of decreasing intervals. You can edit it to change it to increasing intervals."
I guess this:
https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#due-counts-and-time-estimates
Anki additionally adds a small amount of random variation to the next due times, in order to prevent cards that were introduced together and always rated the same from always staying next to each other. This variation is not shown on the time estimates but will be applied after selecting the button.
In my opinion, the Anki manual already covers most stuff. And it also links Supermemo and its 20 rules article.
Surpised no-one has mentioned Anki. Anki is a free flashcard program designed to time reviews in such a way so you don't forget them. It has a web version and along with apps for most major operating systems. There are a bunch of shared decks for french and other languages.
If you want a more custom learning, my recommendation is to look up for the most used Swedish words and put them in a document (word, google docs, whatever). Then, put under each word at least three sentences with it (I recommend Tatoeba for that. Then download Anki and create a deck with the words or sentences you learned. Every day practice with the flashcards you created. Try introducing 5-20 words a day, depending on how much work you want to put into this. Good luck!
Yup!
https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html
Also look up the older supermemo 20 rules for formatting knowledge. Not necessarily needed but it will help you understand good cards from bad cards. I edit the zanki cards as I go all the time, especially to make them more explicit in what they are asking, or adding a second “hint” to the close {{c1::hidden answer here::hint here}}
If they still don't appear, there is a chance that they're buried - if you added multiple cards which are similar (e.g. if you had one card with "Tree" and "木" and another with "木" and "tree"), buried cards will be prevented from displaying straight away so that it's better for your memory, but they should appear the following day as if they were new.
You could try turning this off on the same screen where you set the number of cards per day for a deck by disabling the "Bury related new cards until the next day" option.
I think this is it:
https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#due-counts-and-time-estimates
Anki additionally adds a small amount of random variation to the next due times, in order to prevent cards that were introduced together and always rated the same from always staying next to each other. This variation is not shown on the time estimates but will be applied after selecting the button.
- You're awesome! I know people who have been married to Polish women for years and haven't even attempted anything close to what you have. Keep being a good egg.
- Stop learning single words, learn phrases and sentences instead. That'll save you a whole world of pain. And time. Lots of time. Besides, how can you learn grammar with just one word? How much grammar can you learn from the word "bacon"?! Not much. "I love to eat bacon!" is much better if you want to learn some grammar. Then you can manipulate the sentence to say "I love to eat sausages" => "I love to fry sausages" => "I love to fry eggs" => "I like to fry eggs" etc. Loads of fun.
- Read "Grammar does not exist". As soon as I embraced that philosophy, my Polish grammar skills improved drastically. Because it so doesn't, as much as we'd like to think that it does.
- Read. Then read some more. (I say this and I hate reading). That's the secret though. If you're looking for the secret sauce, here it is.
- If you want another shortcut, get a good (English-language) Polish grammar book, find examples of sentences containing the grammar declensions you want to learn and compare the Polish sentences to the English sentences. The more examples you see (and compare), the better your understanding will be. I use Anki (which is free!) to systematise the process and it helps me to remember the sentences too, but unless you download a deck of flashcards, that way might involve a lot of typing (...which also counts as Polish practice and means you only learn what you really want to learn and is most relevant to you).
I hope that helps! Good luck on your honourable quest!
There are many apps called Anki. /r/anki until now is only about apps that are part of the official Anki ecosystem. "The Anki ecosystem is made up of Anki, AnkiMobile, AnkiDroid, and AnkiWeb, all of which are linked from our official website: https://apps.ankiweb.net" (https://anki.tenderapp.com/kb/anki-ecosystem/ankiapp-is-not-part-of-the-anki-ecosystem).
AnkiUniversal seems to be different than other rip-off apps that have "Anki" in their name insofar as AnkiUniversal seems to be FOSS. Nevertheless hardly anyone here will have experience with this app.
If after some days you don't get feedback here you might consider asking on github?
You could add additional information that other people might find useful like
- Can you paste the text form PowerPoint that causes your problem as text to other UWP apps like evernote (that support html-texts)?
- your windows 10 version, your powerpoint version, the version of AnkiUniversal
I think the regular/official Anki is quite useable on a windows tablet. I prefer this version because it offers addons. Maybe you have more luck with this?
I'm going to assume you have a reason you can't use web-based applications like Duolingo or Memrise, or don't want to download free ebooks or audiobooks, so I won't go into any of those here, except to refer you to the FAQ and Wiki for this subreddit.
As far as free apps for PCs go, a good starting point would be ANKI plus some flashcards
[](/rarifly)Friendship can often be thicker than blood so it's understandable. And, well, just because one 20-year-long friend bailed on you doesn't mean every other 20-year-long friend will just bail on you. I hope that bailing experience won't ruin your view on friendship.
A little knowledge is dangerous, really. Better to know more than to know a little.
If you've only been doing Anki everyday for the last 62 days, it may be too soon to tell if it isn't for you. Go for a bit longer and see what happens. There are a few ways to increase your retention rate. When I personally first noticed my rate dropping, I shortened my interval modifier. This'll make you see cards more often, but your retention rate should go up. If you want to do this, use the below formula I got straight from the Anki manual (https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#reviews) and adjust accordingly. Good luck!
log(desired retention%) / log(current retention%)
- go to your add-ons folder, for details see: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#file-locations
- in the folder image_occlusion_enhanced there's a file main.py. Open it with a text editor and replace all occurences of
Alt+awith another key combination that is not used in other places ... Save and restart anki - before you do any of this: make sure to have a proper backup and know how to restore it.
Conditional Replacement: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#conditional-replacement
In your card template, you can write the following for the front side:
{{Sentence}}{{^Sentence}}{{Word}}{{/Sentence}}
Not tested, but should work.
it's great that you include many relevant screenshots. So your post is much better than the usual ones.
But you might have missed crucial informaiton. The third screenshot that shows the "edit current" window doesn't show what's at the bottom (mainly the value of a field "Add Reverse").
The fourth screenshot shows that the back is not shown during reviews if a field "Add Reverse" is not empty, see https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#conditional-replacement
general points:
- if you report problems always include the version you use. If you are not on the latest which is 2.1.13 update and try again.
- Sometimes add-ons cause the weirdest issues. The manual says: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#startup-options "if you are experiencing problems with Anki, you might want to (or might be instructed to) disable add-ons temporarily to see if one might be causing the problem. You can do both of these things by holding down the Shift key while starting Anki."
Another tool a lot of people use for this is Anki; it's free (and open-source!), very powerful, there's phone versions so you can review on the go, yadda yadda.
The concept in general, if you want to google, is called ‘SRS’ — a Spaced Repetition System for memory.
The final question is basically how to get the data out of your school's proprietary system — you might want to look around and see if ‘Phoenix Synergy SIS’ has an API, or data-export system?
Good luck!
You ask for a useful feature. But ...
that limitation is documented in the manual in the section about searching:
> Anki is only able to search within formatting in the sort field you’ve configured. For example, if you add "example" to one of your fields, this will not be matched when searching for "example" unless that field is the sort field. If a word is not formatted, or the formatting does not change in the middle of the word, then Anki will be able to find it in any field.
This is just a users forum. The official forum is at help.ankiweb.net. I assume the developer had a good reason for this behavior ... I guess it's speed: Anki does not remove/ignore the formatting of the search field while the search occurs. Instead internally Anki has a special field "contents of the sort field without formatting" that gets updated whenever you modify a note, see notes.py/flush. So getting your desired behavior probably requires many changes and who knows how well these work on older mobile devices, maybe the amount of data that needs to be synced would rise substantially so that it's slower etc. ... and the code base for Anki mobile and Anki for Desktop should probably be in sync.
look at the search term that the click generates: It's not just the tag but an additional * which means any number of characters may follow.
To exclude another tag you could press alt and click the other tag
for searching in general see: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#searching
You're definitely wrong. Damien explicitly says he personally supports Anki Mobile at the bottom of this page.
The official website says "AnkiMobile is a paid companion to the free computer program, for use on Apple devices. By purchasing the app, you help to support Anki's future development."
Sounds pretty official to me.
Use Anki instead of physical flashcards. Much easier and it spaces them out based on how easy you find them to remember. You can customise it too (add notes, verb conjugations etc as different fields). Download the PC version first and then put it on your phone. I hope you have an Android phone because the iOS version of Anki will set you back 31,000 won (US$24.99). But it's worth it.
A few of us use Anki. I spent some intensive time studying Pitman, and some less intensive but still substantive time with Teeline, but I’ve pretty much forgotten them. Vs Gregg that I’ve been slowly ticking along on using Anki, with a two-year gap in the middle - but without forgetting and having to backtrack. So, would recommend!
My biggest requirement when reading papers are actually remembering later what the papers did, what the big ideas were, what some of the highlights from the experiments, and sometimes some important details from the appendices (architectures used, notable things that came up, etc.)
Towards this end, I've started using Anki to literally make flashcards of important points in papers. For example, one flashcard might just look like: "In Paper X by authors Y et. al., what is the main idea of their algorithm?", and the back would detail the algorithm, and I quiz myself on these later.
Overall, I get paper suggestions from colleagues or reading groups, usually print the papers out, make notes on paper while I read, and then write down highlights with Anki.
I read Spanish books, or watch TV series, and then add words or phrases to Anki. I then get Anki to feed me one extra word per day. That way, I actually learn the words, rather than not coming across the same word for a while and forgetting it.
I've really enjoyed watching cuéntame, as you can get copy and pastable subtitles on the right hand side of the screen, which are reasonably accurate for the most part. So I get some vocabulary from this. In addition, you get to learn about stuff in recent Spanish history, from the end of the 1950s onwards. It has all bits of film footage interwoven into it. I'm still on series one!!! There are loads of episodes to watch.
I do most of my review on AnkiMobile. It's really useful to me.
Latex does work, but I've found the way that Anki uses LaTeX (as images) difficult to work with. I've switched to using MathJax. It looks just a good and renders natively.
dvipng should be part of miktex - if it's not installed by default it should be selectable via the pacakge manager of miktex (the package manager should be in a folder maintenance in the start menu).
you might consider 2.1 which has an alternative to miktex/dvipng: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#mathjax-support
maybe you have a note type that has two cards? Two days delay fits because of sibling burying ...
If you delete a card of a note all cards of the note will be deleted.
In Anki note and card have different meanings: see e.g. here or here
The manual is at https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html
If you don't know the difference between note and card anki will be much less effective. It's not easy to get it at first but one you understand it's obvious ...
If you know this and this doesn't help:
- Post screenshots of the relevent note in the editor and of all tabs of the cards/"Card types for ..." window and of all deck options.
- which version do you use (if not the latest update)
- do you use filtered decks?
- do you use any add-ons
I recently found this website that lets you run flashcards, and when you get one right, you see it less often, and when you get it wrong, you see it more often. There's also an app version.
You can start Anki with the QTWEBENGINE_REMOTE_DEBUGGING environment variable set. This will provide you with a remote Chromium debugging session. See here: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/addons.html#webview-changes
just select the list and copy it into a spread sheet like libre office calc. Make sure not to select the whole webpage but only the table.
If you have an old version of excel you might run into problems (searcht he manual for "excel").
Process it as neeeded (remove columsn you don't want, reorder, etc.)
Export as csv and import into anki, see https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#importing
Anki is pretty popular around here. The desktop app is free so you can try it out. The iOS is paid but well worth the price if you use it regularly. It is very convenient if you’re on the go a lot.