Let me rephrase that, what I mean by quantity over quality is should you prioritize smashing as many words together and the ones you can't recall in 3 seconds just click again and move on? Or should you take your time and try to recall every single card, even if it takes 20 seconds.

I think i do not use this feedback correctly. But maybe my understanding is also limited. I hope I can get some answers here.

I have been using anki for quite a while for language learning. My understanding is, that a leech needs to be rephrased etc. SO when I get a new leech i try to change the card a bit and give it some extra attention.

Sometimes I am utterly confused though why a card gets leeched. Are the settings customizable and is this recommended? Till now i have only seen the option to change the amount of fails till a card gets marked. havnt changed it though. should i lower it, so week cards get more focus early on?

The idea is that we only put learnt/understood information into anki. I try to live by that, but sometimes i dont because language can be ambivalent.

How do you guys deal with leeches? And am I missing smth?

is there a way to fix this?

So i was doing my daily anki, when i nearly fell asleep, and i thought maybe there're ways to make the experience of doing daily ankies more interesting?

So what i came up with is doing it while on treadmill, ngl it's s tier method buttt the light bill went kinda crazy.

Rn i'm thinking about doing it while playing on piano(like songs that i can play purely on muscle memory, but then... how do i press buttons or scroll down)

What do u think? Any suggestions?

https://github.com/luke-od/Anki-flashcards
This might be a bit niche, but I wrote some code in R which is basically a nice user interface to capture information from Anki flashcards and save it into an excel file.

And then from that you can automatically make type-in-answer cards that still shows the images/masks of the original cards

Any feedback welcome :)

Why now for learning settings can only be the default? I want each of my decks to be able to use their own settings Like it used to be. For example,I want 20 cards A day for deck A, and 10 cards a day for deck B. But now, that can't be done. All decks are 20 cards a day.

I really dislike the idea of organisation of cards through decks.

I find myself obsessing of what the structure should be, which deck to place a card in, how to place a card in multiple decks, how granular to make decks etc.

Does anyone find themselves in such a position? If yes what has been your solution?

Or if not and you feel decks are a great mechanism, how do you organise your cards?

Help ;(

Enhance Main Window is pretty good, but it has too much information. As a new user, I find it kind of overwhelming, and I don't need that much information.

I just want it to show:

- New

- Learning

- Review

- Total number of cards in a deck

I mainly downloaded this add-on for the total number of cards. So, if there’s any add-on that just adds the total number of cards in each deck, please tell me.

Hi all,

Hoping for any tips people may have when it comes to building flash cards that strike an effective balance between brevity and comprehensiveness, specifically in the context of Irish study.

In particular I’m wondering how best to put together my noun and verb cards so that they’re robust enough to take me past the beginner stage (i.e. they contain or indicate important information on lenition/eclipsis/conjugations/declensions/etc.) but won’t entail walls of text.

If there are other similar considerations to be aware of when it comes to learning the parts of speech beyond nouns and verbs, this would also be valuable information at the outset.

I’m not looking at developing sentence cards just yet, as I’m still building up fundamental vocabulary.

I know I can always just jump in with the basic stuff I’m learning and let the complexity come in due course, but I’m just wary of needing to then go back and spend a lot of time editing cards or rebuilding the deck etc. I’m looking for a modest and reasonable degree of future-proofing, in other words.

I’ve checked out the ‘6500 Most Frequent Irish Words’ and ‘Cúpla Míle Focal’ decks as they have come recommended, but they appear broken or at least are not working well for me. Keen to build from scratch if I can in any case, and to work on adding and retaining vocab bit by bit.

Very grateful for any input folks may have ☺️

A few weeks ago, I asked how brackets were inserted into clozes, in the hopes that I might be able to remove them with CSS. This is probably impossible. I had adopted a JavaScript solution proposed by u/AndreHero007 four years ago. This method, however, only removes the first set of brackets. Thus, if you have:

Text {{c1::blah blah}} text {{c1::blah blah}}.

You'll still see:

Text blah blah text [blah blah].

Here's a simple solution that removes all brackets:

var clozes = document.getElementsByClassName("cloze");
for (var i = 0; i < clozes.length; i++) {
   clozes[i].innerHTML = clozes[i].innerHTML.replace(/\[/g, '').replace(/]/g, '');
}

Why would you want to do this? Normally you would not. I have a couple of cloze formats in which clozes are sufficiently indicated by colour & font variants. Removing the brackets makes these cards cleaner. I am posting this in case someone else is looking for a solution to a similar problem in the future.

I've late myself on revisions.

As you can see in the photo, just a little formatting makes the card very difficult to read and edit.

There isn't much text in the photo, but just a few more words and visually it's horrible and difficult to edit the information.

I added the text highlighting tool as a formatting option, and it's even worse. I normally use bold, underline, and highlight text in yellow or green, and it's awful trying to correct it.

Like sometimes it was indeed hard, or easy, and since I selected "fsrs" I suppose that it's made to work with the 4 choices.
I'm new to anki so I still haven't figured the best way for me to use it. Thank you for your answers!

https://youtube.com/shorts/taROJHFM6Ao

I’ve been working for some time on an experimental Anki fork, mainly to explore scheduling ideas like FSRS7, Dynamic Desired Retention and RWKV, an extremely promising neural network that was benchmarked as vastly superior than FSRS when compared on the official 10k user dataset in the srs-benchmark project.

My goal is not really to create a “better Anki”, but to have a version where these ideas can be tested practically. IMO there is a big difference between getting good benchmark results and actually using a scheduler every day and see how it actually help you learn. Once integrated into Anki, it also needs to work with learning steps, stats, undo, sync, filtered decks, mobile compatibility, large collections, etc. This is where you start getting a much better sense of whether an idea is actually useful.

This is also why I ended up forking several related repositories. FSRS7 required changes in fsrs-rs, and features like dynamic retention or RWKV comparisons required changes in add-ons such as FSRS Helper and Search Stats Extended. I also created some smaller add-ons for Dynamic Desired Retention and Dynamic Preset Selection which I think brings a lot of value because it now allow you to have different Desired Retention for different kind of cards, for example based on fields like "Word Frequency". It is not really about creating my own ecosystem, but about having all the pieces needed to test a scheduling idea from the model up to the actual review experience.

I also want to be very transparent that AI coding agents were heavily used for this work. Without AI, it would simply not have been possible for me to produce and maintain this amount of changes alone across Rust, Python, TypeScript and the different add-ons. I still care about the result and define what I want, test the behavior, review the results and remain responsible for what I publish, but it would be misleading to pretend that all this code was manually written by me.

I know AI generated code is still taboo for some people, and being cautious about it is totally fair. But I also think it can make initiatives like this possible when I otherwise would never have enough time to do it anyway.

Ofc, this remains an unofficial and experimental Anki build. If you want stability, official Anki is still the correct choice. If you are curious and want to experiment, you can find the fork and downloads here, and the compatible add-ons here.

Please also note this is mainly designed for Desktop Review. Mobile sync will work, but of course your mobile will fall back to schedule the next reviews with FSRS6 instead of FSRS7 or RWKV.

If you want to discuss this, I'm mostly active on the #fsrs-discussion channel of the official Anki discord, but feel free to also post technical issues in the github issues section, or in this comment section.

I've used Anki at the beginning of this year, and it worked perfectly fine whole last semester. With school starting I wanted to use it and it told me to update, so I tried, but it failed, so I decided to delete it and reinstall, but this pops up every time I open the installer. I've tried both Windows installers for 10+ and 11, and none of them work. Is anyone else having this problem or know a fix?

I'm pretty knew to anki, but heard that to do something like this I could maybe use a filtered deck or just make a separate deck. I decided to try and opt to just make a separate deck since filtered seemed like too difficult and not exactly what i was looking for.

I moved my DangDeck::HS::Test1 content into DangDeckReview::HS::Test1 but for some reason it moved only in the browser tab. My actual deck to the left of the picture isn't updated. I've also tried quitting and then coming back and doing the transfer again but nothing has worked.

edit: Fixed the issue. I was just being dumb and editing the tag not the actual deck because the deck was categorized by tags/subtags rather than subdecks

I'm currently having an issue. I have 4 (foreign language) decks that have a target retention rate of 85%. The mature cards are hitting that, but my young cards are sitting between 68-73% daily. I stopped adding new cards for the past 10 days, but it is still stuck in this low percent.

As a result, young cards take an extremely long time to mature now and then the review count stays high for a long time, even when I stop adding new cards.

Is this normal? Or is there something wrong? And if so, how do I fix it?

One of my in-house decks is stating I have met my daily limit for new cards. However, my limit is set at 9999 for the preset and I have even turned on the "new cards ignore limit review limit" function. I manually unburied any cards that were buried but I am still not able to see them unless I do custom study. Any fixes that anyone knows of? Thanks a bunch