Has anyone here uses Anki?

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Has anyone here uses Anki?

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I use Anki! Do you have questions about it?

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I use it every day.

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A lot of people do. I did for a time but I no longer do. I found it more enjoyable to spend that time reading more.

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If you miss a couple of days and your reviews stack up in hundreds, how do you reset the reviews again letā€™s say if there are 150 reviews to be done in a day and you are hard pressed for time how to bring the number of reviews down in Anki? If you can answer this question, I will be very happy. Thanks

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There are a number of strategies.

First, if you know the answer easily, always select the right-most button. That pushes it out farther into the future and helps to keep your daily list smaller.

You can just do as many as you can in a day and you may catch up.

You can start over from scratch selecting the number of new items that you want to do in a day and again, if you already know it, push it into the future.

If you know something fairly well, delete it.

Move old stuff that youā€™ve been reviewing for a long time off to a side deck for skimming in the browser or simply delete them. If youā€™ve reviewed them a lot and you still miss things, it may not be worth it to keep review them.

Iā€™m primarily using it now for important words that I have a difficult time with. For example, alejarse.

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Yes - I wrote a tool that lets you export LingQ lessons to Anki sentence cards if youā€™re interested:

LingQ Exporter for Anki:

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For installation purpose what steps I should follow - reading that page seems too complicated for a less savvy tech guy like me. Thanks

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Iā€™m hoping to build a proper user interface for it at some point, so itā€™s more easily accessible. Right now it only exists as a command-line tool.

More than happy to lend a hand getting it working - once itā€™s set up, itā€™s pretty straightforward to use. :slight_smile:

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I really want to review not my words in LingQ but my Phrases or Sentences (the multiword lingqs) is there a way to do that?

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Iā€™ve been wanting to try really bad after watching a lot of Matt vs Japan on YouTube but iā€™m still a bit imtimidated by the customization (and I donā€™t like the interface look TBH)

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The tool I wrote works in the following way:

  • Creates a card with a whole sentence on the front (as opposed to a phrase, word or fragment)
  • Lists all the vocabulary + notes for that sentence on the back

Unfortunately you do need some knowledge of Git + command line at the moment, until I host it somewhere and create a user-friendly interface for it. But Iā€™ve tested it with a number of languages and itā€™s quite serviceable.

For reviewing words and phrases, thereā€™s the built-in exporter that LingQ provides by default.

I can always make a video demonstrating how to get it working if it sounds like it would be useful to anyone.

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Iā€™m reading up now (I actually imported a lot of intro articles into my target language lingq so I can practice while I prep)

Excuse my ignorance but in Windows 10 is ā€œCommand Promptā€ the equivalent or is CLI a linux only affair?

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No worries! Command prompt in Windows works a bit differently, but apparently there is a Linux-like distribution of Git made for Windows: https://gitforwindows.org/

You can download the project directly from Github - select the Code dropdown and ā€œDownload Zipā€)

Just make sure switch to ā€œankiā€ branch once youā€™ve downloaded it. Inside the directory youā€™ll run ā€˜git checkout ankiā€™. This will format the cards a bit better when you import into Anki with HTML enabled.

For getting Node installed (Node is a runtime for executing JavaScript outside the browser), this might be useful:

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Right on, I also have a chromebook, a Synology NAS, and a rasperberrypi three. I guess chromebook might be the best option (assuming I donā€™t have do use chroot or dual boot) that is if I want to use CLI more natively

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Thank you so much for any all all headache saving ā€˜pro tipsā€™.

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I do and I love it. I make 30/40 new cards everyday and my retention rate (% of cards I get right) is at 99.73% for mature cards.

One of my favourite things about Anki is the punishment feature, where you miss a day cards will pile up. This makes me use it everyday, because I have missed a few days in the past and it was really hard to get back up, and I learnt from my laziness and as a result I have been forced to form a habit. I currently use it for language learning only as Iā€™m at the end of my summer holidays, but I will be definitely using it to learn for uni.

On a 36 day streak and at this point of time it doesnā€™t even feel like studying/chore, instead it feels like going for a walk in the park.

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I would watch that video! (If you can beleive it, embarrassing as it) I still havenā€™t completed this task, but I really love, that is, I really see the value in whole sentence cards, I believe they can also be called Cloze or Clozes or Cloze cards, and you said that your tool does just that:

Help us be like you! haha

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Nope

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Yes. However, I am not a fan of flashcards. It is fine for short-term memory but not for long-term memory. That is my personal experience.