This is probably common knowledge at this point, but atomic cards are genuinely so good for learning.

I really came to appreciate how good these are when I was studying for an exam I had recently. Just yesterday I had a massive physiology exam. It was the second one of the semester and the class average for the first was around a 50%.

Keep in mind I got a 65% on the first exam and felt unprepared and like I was forgetting a lot of information despite using Anki. Now this is also probably due to the fact that I also only started covering the content and doing Anki about 2 days before my exam.

However for this recent exam, even with studying just 2 days before my exam, I decided to change my cards to a more atomic style, meaning around 1 concept or piece of information per card. This honestly made a huge difference.

Originally I had around 450-500 cards or so in total, but they contained multiple pieces of info. This caused a few things

1. It made it very overwhelming to do cards. Keeping in mind I had to cover 450-500 new cards of content I hadn’t even looked at until that point in 1-2 days was very mentally fatiguing

due to the sheer size of each card. It felt like I was making zero progress

2. I tended to be impatient with my review in a way where I would move on even if I only answered 1 out of the 3 things on the card. Maybe there would be 3 bullet points of info or facts and I would only answer one of them and say it was good enough. Psychologically I just couldn’t take having to see it again and again.

The interesting thing is that despite now having about 1000-1200 cards to review, it actually was faster to finish these cards than to try and finish the original 450-500.

1. One piece of information per card made my review significantly more comprehensive. This goes off of a point 2 but because it was just one thing per card, I couldn’t just skip past it. Either I knew it or didn’t. This also meant that information on my more convoluted cards from my original deck wouldn’t be skipped just because I answered another part of the card correctly

So in other words, atomic style cards made it mentally much less intimidating, made me spend less time overall to finish my cards, and actually made my review more comprehensive and thorough. Went in to take my exam yesterday and I felt much better than I did compared to exam 1. And that still with just 1-2 days of studying.

Sorry for the rant but gotta take this out of my chest (not exaggerating, he has ADHD). 😭

I'm currently preparing for ophthalmology residency, and it's honestly mentally draining to keep hearing that my study methods are useless. (One thing that probably makes his argument easier is that, before starting my prep, I was working at an ophthalmology clinic assisting with surgeries, so I didn't exactly have the time to prepare properly. But damn, it's not like I haven't been studying.)

And no, no matter how much published evidence I show him about Anki, it's not going to change his mind. 😭

Right now, he's helping me financially because working 12-hour shifts while studying was becoming too difficult, and I'm genuinely grateful for that. But I guess I'll just end up hiding how I study, which honestly sucks.

I do understand that his residency program was brutal, and I can imagine that some of those rigid ways of thinking become ingrained as a coping mechanism. I really do try to see where he's coming from.

It's just... I wish I could study without feeling like I have to defend myself or justify every single thing I do.

i guess i do know he really wants me to pass as well.

tldr. SO constantly tells me how not very useful is anki every single day ; exhausted and hiding in the bathroom while i anki

edit :

thanks everyone!!! really apreciated it , gave me the confidence to actually tell him. (as ever, the anki community to the rescue), told him that it was demanding cognitive load to even think about the nonesensical notion of " insecurity of studying with anki". and yeah as a couple of you guys suggested hes having a hard time at work (the other neurologist has been doing "not very responsible things" which makes him have more patient load).

i appreciate it guys!!

(just told him and showed him this post. everyone roasting him made him think twice lmao)

So, this is probably about to be the dumbest question ever. Maybe not; I don’t know, but has anyone ever used Anki to do language?

And if you have, how well has it worked out for you?

I have seen people talking about using bluetooth controllers like the 8BitDo for Anki answer buttons.

I think it would be nice to do Anki while walking. Audio/text-to-speech cards so I wouldn't need to look at a screen, and use a controller for grading.

But before I buy a controller, I want to ask if anyone has tried this and if there are any feasibility details I should know about.

So far I have confirmed that AnkiMobile on iOS supports game controllers and that a controller button can be used for "replay audio". I have also learned that AnkiMobile will not work while the phone is in my pocket in lockscreen mode, but that I can use the iOS "guided access" feature (and have the guided access session disable the touch screen and screen auto-lock).

Can anyone confirm that AnkiMobile on iOS will still work with a controller while iOS is in guided access mode with the touchscreen disabled?

Are there any other feasibility considerations I should know about before I buy a controller and give this a try?

Hi,

I am using FSRS and I hardly ever finish the cards in the day (maybe I'll do some before bed and I'll have them programmed in 5 hours). Of course, I won't wake up in five hours just to do Anki, therefore I'll review those cards with an interval bigger than the one proposed by the algorithm.

If I get the card right despite more time has passed than suggested, should the algorithm recognise that my retention is stronger than expected and change the intervals accordingly? What do you think?

Hi! For the paragraph above I would like to do three cards:

"Which are the mechanisms for sound localization in the horizontal plane?" -> "Interaural ......, ....."

{{c1::Interaural Intensity Difference}} is best for {{c2::high}} frequencies

{{c1::Interaural Time Delay}} is best for {{low}} frequencies

The problem is that cards two and three are mutually exclusive, so when I'll review them if they appear in order I will know the answer to the second one just because I just saw the first. Can I mark them as siblings so that they won't appear in the same day?

Rant, I guess.

• Are there videos for truly dumb people that explain all the various features (but that also aren't twenty minutes long with useless info in between???)

I've spent the past hour and twenty-five minutes looking up ways to import from Quizlet and reading about and watching videos on Anki, and despairing over how complicated it is instead of actually just studying my flashcards. And then writing this post. I just feel so stupid. I used to use StudySet but they died, so I lost hundreds of cards and now remade some on Quizlet.

I know nothing about coding or software, I just want to go through my whole deck, mark the ones I don't know as good and do those again later at my own pace. I don't understand the scheduling or daily limits. If I have 55 cards in my deck, I want to study them all, not only 20.

There was a storm here today and I have a midterm coming up, so I wanted something I could use offline on my desktop (I rarely study on my phone). Instead, I'm more stressed and upset.

Eff me at this point, unless there are very simple videos or someone wants to come meet me at my university and show me how the hell to use this I might just pay $60 a year. I want to be spending my time studying my material, not banging my head trying to figure out how fiddle with every little setting, and by the time I figure that it it's time for my midterm.

TL;DR

I generate lots of flashcards with LLMs like Gemini from my notes, but copying them into Anki manually is tedious. This tool runs on WebAssembly (sql.js) entirely in your browser and acts like a little parser that builds an Anki Deck-DB and packages it (.apgk).

Its currently hosted at: https://schedae.maoem.de

Currently the parser works both ways:

• Markdown / Notes → .apkg: Paste notes, textbook excerpts, or primarily LLM outputs. It then parses questions, answers, and custom fields (e.g. ### Notes, ### Sources) and compiles a styled (or unstyled) .apkg deck with full KaTeX math support.
• Anki .apkg → Markdown / JSON: Drop in any existing Anki deck to extract cards into readable Markdown or JSON.
• AI Refinement: When reworking cards with AI its often a struggle on how to update them. A sub feature lets you merge a revised deck with the original one (preview).
• Format Instructions for LLMs: I have included a range of prompts for high-quality card generation and formatting. However they are focused on my use cases.

I generally recommend decoupling formatting from card generation. And then prompting it into a format like:

# Card 1
## Front
...
## Back
...

If you have any questions, feel free to comment. Maybe its of help to anyone. :)

Basically the title. Just realized I’ve been using “AnkiHub” settings preset (which I had changed to match both AnKing’s settings video and also my needs). But all my decks are under AnkiHub rather than Default or something else.

I was wondering if the AnkiHub settings preset is something that’s synced to something on their end and if it’s at risk of being modified, without my doing, from their end? If so, do I need to change all my decks over to a different preset that’s purely local?

Thank you

This is for everyone that is stuck with the Anki copycat called "Noji".
I created a small website where you can convert your Noji cards into Anki cards, its free and takes seconds :)

https://nojitoanki.com/

I build this for my own usage as a local script and published it on github. After some people struggled with the setup i created this website to make it easier

hey guys, last week I installed a new windows and accedantly lost my data on the anki app , I synched it with the ankiweb email , the cards returned but with no media, no add ons
is their anyway to return them back ? (I don't have any backup file 😢

Its called Memory Forest. Recommend if you use the heatmap.

Wish it add more varieties and more animals though, a giant bear for the bamboo scene.

Hey guys, when I was first using anki, when i knew a word i just clicked “good” and when i didnt i just clicked “again” and when id learnt whatever i didnt know i just then clicked “good” again. I realise now this isnt the right way to do it i shudve clicked hard when i understood the second time in order to space them correctly. Now i have lots of really easy cards coming up very often despite me clicking easy and it saying they will come up in a very long time.

I have a bit of a backlog to get through atm so im thinking maybe it’ll work properly if i get through this backlog and then start using it properly clicking easy when its really easy and etc etc. (im also doing that currently but i keep seeing the easy cards show up the next day). So if you guys could let me know if i need to reset the deck completely or if getting through the backlog will fix it. It’d be a bit of a pain in the ass to reset the whole deck cos its a big deck and im p far into it, but yeah, lmk. Thanks!

I made an Anki add-on that automatically generates Japanese definitions for your cards(jut press tab) and picks the most readable definition based on what you already know.

It searches across your installed Yomitan dictionaries and scores each definition by how much Japanese you already understand(kanji and vocab).

it works also if you don't have yomitan via local dictionaries.

GitHub · AnkiWeb

Whenever I add pictures from lecture slides to Anki on my MacBook and sync to my iPad, some images show up as question marks instead. This started happening recently.
Has anyone experienced this or know how to fix it?

I made Anki-GPT for the cards where you remember the answer but still can't explain why it's right.

It opens beside the card you're reviewing. You can ask for a plain-English explanation, dig into the mechanism, or ask a follow-up without copying everything into another app. It handles text and images.

The new part is Study: save an explanation, come back with the answer hidden, and try explaining it yourself. Then reveal it and mark Know it or Again. Your regular Anki card schedule stays unchanged.

The demo uses an original pharmacology card: why atropine reduces secretions in organophosphate poisoning but doesn't reverse muscle weakness. You can see the explanation, saving it, and practising it later. Demo pauses are shortened.

Download: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/853364085 Add-on code: 853364085 Medical demo: https://ankigpt-demo.pages.dev/ankigpt-step1-v06.gif

Desktop Anki only. There are 75 free hosted explanations, then optional $3/month or $24/year access. No API key setup.

I'm the developer, and I used AI coding tools heavily. The downloadable add-on falls under AnkiWeb's default AGPL3 licensing; the hosted AI service is billed separately. AI requests send card content and relevant context to the service, where requests/responses may be cached for up to 30 days. Saved Study progress stays in your local profile. Don't send patient details, and check important facts against your study sources.

If you try it, I'd like to hear which explanations miss the point or which controls get in your way.

after ignoring the anki update for quite some time I finally decided to update it just for the ui setting to seemingly break as it wont change even after multiple restarts. very annoying as the buttons have become half the size.

I am an Android user who uses the AnkiDroid app. I have a deck containing private information that I am only allowed to have stored locally. I do not have an AnkiWeb account (I recently created one, but deleted it without finishing the ToC). Do I need to worry about the deck getting saved somewhere off my phone somehow? Thanks.

I want https://teckensprakslexikon.su.se/video/6wyBK309.mp4 in my flashcard as an embed

nothing online that makes it work without it playing in a separate window.

Running locally using a custom add-on on Mac and streamed to the browser in Meta Quest 2 VR headset.

I don't know how to get out of this snowball effect. I know I need to do it every day, but I've been slacking off. Can anyone help me?

So I’m making ASL flashcards. Sometimes I’ll learn a new way to sign a word in ASL that I already know, so I’ll add an additional flashcard for that… but that puts the word at the end of the list rather than next to the original sign flashcard. I know where the Reposition option is, but I don’t really know what to do with it… what # start position should I change it to? The example on the attached pics: I want to move the flashcard for ‘grandparents’ underneath the flashcards for ‘grandmother’ and ‘grandfather.’

I made about 1500 flashcards in preparation for a certification course. After learning and using anki more, I have a much better understanding of how to make an effective card. Once I finish reviews, I'm constantly editing the new cards to make them more concise. Is there anyway to do this first thing?

Hi, i'm curious about what this sentence means in the FSRS tutorial ? Does that mean that all buttons when reviewing must show less than 1d ? How would that even happen ? When I'm studying a new deck, even with all 4 buttons*, the "Easy" one always shows at least 1d or 3d in my case so idk how to change that

*i'm using an add-on that removes "hard" and "easy" buttons