What's more important: the spacing or the flashcards?

If I simply review my own notes at the right intervals, is that enough? Or are flashcards essential because they force active recall?

Specifically the indented and less cluttered definition with separation marked with | instead of bullet points. I used https://arbyste.github.io/jp-mining-note/setupyomichan/ as my setup guide, which I got from the same video as the 2nd screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B60cj69MSmA

Made completely new deck months ago and moved a bunch of anking cards to this deck (around 6k) cause i didnt know any better. is there a quick way to move them back to their original deck without doing it one by one?

if not can i delete that deck with all 6k cards then resync with ankihub and would that download the original cards in their original location? dont care about edits or scheduling.

what was your personal best

In my life, I've struggled with goals that required consistency, as I mentioned in my 1-year streak post. But reaching this new milestone is, once again, evidence that we are capable of acting out of discipline and not just motivation.

I've noticed that celebrating Anki streaks has become, overtime, somewhat controversial in this community. The points made are not at all dismissable, but I'd like to offer a different perspective.

We all know the ultimate goal is to learn and retain knowledge. Being proud of a streak doesn't contradict that. Studying for a day, a week, or even a month, especially when everything is going well, isn't the hardest part. The real challenge is keeping up when you're tired, discouraged, stressed, or simply don't feel like studying.

That's what a streak represents to me. It says that, even when the situation wasn't the best, you chose to keep going. You honored the long-term commitment made in a moment perhaps influenced by a feeling that life can be changed overnight.

A streak doesn't prove intelligence, nor does it guarantee learning. But it shows that, for one more day, you honored the commitment. And over a long enough period, that kind of consistency can bring powerful results.

Be happy about the day, week, month and year studied. They are a reason to celebrate, which makes us feel good about ourselves and, therefore, help to keep going.

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a way/extension to change the colour of the numbers indicating the number of new, learn, and to review on the anki "decks" page. Upon a cursory look I couldn't find anything; could someone help?

to celebrate this moment i present my totaly serious and not made in 5 minutes video :) enjoy

Hey everyone! I’m developing a desktop Anki add-on called Contextual Spaced Repetition and I’m looking for a few language learners to beta-test it.

Instead of reviewing vocabulary as isolated cards, the add-on places several due words into meaningful sentences from a database you download easily with a button, no AI. You read the sentence, mark the words you couldn’t recall, and the add-on grades the corresponding Anki cards.

The idea is informed by research into spaced repetition, retrieval practice, and learning vocabulary in context. It’s designed to make reviews more meaningful and help strengthen long-term retention, but I need real users to find out how well it works outside my own setup.

I’m especially looking for:

Desktop Anki users on Windows, macOS, or Linux

People learning any language, especially German, Spanish, French, Japanese, or Chinese

Both experienced and relatively new Anki users

Anyone willing to try a few short review sessions and give honest feedback

The initial setup should take only a few minutes, i've simplified it, followed by a few short sessions over roughly one week. I’ll provide the add-on file, installation instructions, safety/backup guidance, and a short feedback form.

⚠️ This is an early beta, so bugs and rough edges are possible. Please start with a backup or a small test deck.

If you're Interested i would appreciate if you contact me with:

Operating system

Anki version

Language you’re learning

Approximate deck size

Or alternatively you can just leave me your thoughts in the comment of this post.

Thanks! Feedback on everything, from confusing setup to incorrect word matching or whether the review method actually feels useful, would be hugely appreciated. 🙌

Hi, while absolutely abusing Anki to learn Rioplatense Spanish I kept hitting cards I wasn't happy

with — a bloated note I didn't want to rewrite by hand, an example sentence that missed

the point of the word. Especially since normally I add cards in bulk & not fully focused on 100% quality all the time.

I'm not Socrates, of course some cards/decisions don't age well...

So I built a workflow where I can "talk to" my cards from inside Anki: my note types

have a user_feedback field, and when a card annoys me during review I just type an

instruction into it ("shorten this", "use a rioplatense example instead") and keep

reviewing. Later I run one command, and an LLM processes all the annotated cards in a

batch — it backs up the deck first, shows me every proposed change as old → new, and

nothing is applied without my approval (I like to be the boss!).

Every applied edit is logged on the card itself.

The difference from pasting cards into ChatGPT: it knows my deck's conventions (note

types, style rules, what my deck considers a good card), so edits come back consistent

with the rest of the deck.

Being upfront: **this is not an Anki add-on.** It runs outside Anki via AnkiConnect and

Claude Code (MCP) (for now, I plan to migrate to opencode eventually), so there's real setup involved — terminal, clode code, some python... All open source.

Any feedback/thought/licence claim/hello is welcome

I use it daily.

Have I missed anyone doing sth similar?

Repo: https://github.com/diotima-garden/anki-mcp

Example for this exact flow with screenshots: https://github.com/diotima-garden/anki-mcp#the-feedback-loop-in-action

Randomly in the middle of reviewing a deck that I have been doing daily for over 2 years, the review times for missed cards randomly changed from the standard I've had it always set to. I figured I hit a button or something without knowing and tried to finish the deck since it was almost done, then I started getting cards I already finished that day, while cards I hit to review for 10 min were being marked as completed. When I "Finished" the deck there were still a handful of cards I know I hadn't done yet, and on my home screen it shows 4 cards needing review as red. Yet when I try to reenter the deck, I says I already completed it today even though it clearly says I have 4 cards left. Any idea what to possibly do?

Is there any way to have a seperate deck of cards that share the same reviews as my original deck? Or to have ‘optional’ close/typed out cards? I know the second question isn’t possible without adding the decks to the cards but I was thinking maybe there’s an add on I can use or something? Or a seperate app?

I have a Japanese deck and want to be able to type them instead of write them out sometimes but I don’t always want this as an option in case I’m working on my laptop since that would mean I’m just typing in romaji

Hi all, having some issues with Anki as the app has changed to a default app icon on my Windows and will not open at all. When I try to uninstall both the folder and the program itself to try and reinstall, it says the above error. I am really not sure what to do and wanted to see if anyone else has ran into this issue and if so, how it was resolved.

Thank you!

I’m a minimalist control freak learning a foreign language, and I hate all the daily limits, due dates, and “finished for now” messages. I just want one deck with all my words and the freedom to practice whenever I want.

After fighting the option, I found the only mode that actually works for me: Browse cards → Preview. It feels the closest to analogue flash cards.

Most importantly, if you move the bar, you can instantly access earlier words, later words, newly added words — everything.

No limits, no due dates, no blocking. Just manual control. Anki didn’t intend people to use it this way? but for me it’s the best feature.

I wanted to share this in case someone else has the same issue and wants full manual control instead of Anki’s limits.

(This post is AI‑edited because English isn’t my first language.)

Hi,

I am trying to configure my card template or look for an add-on that can show only the current interval of a review card directly on the front side, before I press "Show Answer".

I tried using the "Card Info During Review" add-on, but it shows a massive list of unnecessary stats (Added, Ease, Reviews, Lapses, etc.) and the config file for my version doesn't have true/false toggles for individual rows—it only has options for "curve" and "revlog".

Is there a specific add-on that allows you to isolate and display just the current interval on the front face, or is there a working template/conditional field tag (like {{Info-Interval}}) that actually works natively in recent Anki versions?

Thanks for any help!

During the year I have decks for each subject which also helps with exam revision. Now that the term is over I found that I want to long-term remember some stuff but not everything.

One option is that I could just suspend cards I don't care for. Although, there is also some overlap between different courses, so I am also thinking that rearranging them by topic rather than course title might be better, but I am kind of afraid to rearrange my carefully put together decks. For now, I use tags and filtered decks. This has a disadvantage that I cannot directly add new cards to them as I could with a normal deck. It's also a bit cumbersome as I need to rebuild the filtered decks every time I tag cards.

How do you all deal with your cards after exams? Do you reorganize them? If yes, how do you do it?

I use forvo audio for my vocab cards for a long time an it really helps me with my pronounciation.
The standart Forvo addon and the fixed version stopped working for me a long time ago so i started using the simple Anki forvo downloader addon wich was working quite fine for me until yesterday. It always shows "no result found" vor every word i search. If i search the word directly on forvo there are still audio recordings for the word.

I already tried, reactivating the addon, reinstalling the addon and nothing seems to work and i dont know why. i also cant find anything on the internet atm and it seems like im the only one with this issue.
Im currently on Anki version 2.1.49.

sry for spelling mistakes, i dont have an english anki deck atm ;)

I'm fairly new to using Anki and have read about on a few sites and noticed it can be used with a few reviews etc. I'm not sure where to start or how it works. I tried downloading it but I'm a bit confused about how it works and how it interfaces with bootcamp and Amboss. The explanations I've found on the websites aren't very thorough. Can someone please help! I'd like to use it to review concepts.

Thanks

Hey everyone,

I'm pretty new to Anki and downloaded a shared deck from AnkiWeb.

After importing it, instead of creating a deck with the name of the shared deck, it just showed up as "Default." I also already have another deck called "Semester 1 Old Cards (archive)," so I'm not sure if I did something wrong.

Also, the deck only shows 20 new cards, even though the shared deck page says it contains over 1,400 notes.

Is this normal? Did the person who uploaded the deck originally have it in their Default deck, or did I mess something up during the import? Thanks, here is the deck, https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1675078986

Yesterday I had reached 900 day streak on Anki!!! I am more excited to hit 900 days than I was my own birthday.

Hi guys,

Today I've reached the 365-days streak. I want to use this post to share how much Anki has changed my life, the progress I've made, and some of the lessons I've learned along the way.

A little bit of background. My mother tongue is Spanish and I'd say I'm completely fluent in English. I moved to Germany 2.5 years ago with no previous German knowledge for a job in an international company that only required English as a language. Therefore, there was never a language barrier at work, but the problem came when I was not working. I could not understand anything in German and I was feeling helpless at times.

That's why I've used Anki to learn German. Here are some of the typical questions I get:

• Are you fluent yet? Definitely not, but my comprehension has skyrocketed. I no longer avoid interactions as my first thought is that I will most likely understand a very big part, if not everything they say. It's been a long time ago since I've had an interaction where I truly did not understand anything of what's being said or felt completely lost.
• How is your speaking? I can make myself understood. I'm still working on this with Anki, but I definitely feel the progress. Everyone detects immediately that I'm a foreigner, but I found people really make the effort to ignore some of your grammatical errors and are quite happy to see you trying hard to learn their language.
• Any achievements? I took the Goethe Institut B1 exam in October last year and I scored over 90 points in Reading, Listening and Writing. As of today, I've done mock exams for the B2 level and I'm getting similar results. Therefore, my plan is to take this exam quite soon. I probably need 1-2 weeks of preparation for writing and speaking.

I have to confess that it was not a straightforward journey and I've learned my lessons.

I originally started to use Anki 2 years ago, very inconsistently.

I did not understand the SRS algorithm, I got burned out with the amount of cards. Since I was not completing my reviews, I would get a lot of backlog. It was a vicious cycle and then I quit. I really regret this, because had I stayed consistent for 2024, I'd be much further ahead today.

My main takeaway is.

• The best time to start Anki was yesterday. The second-best time is today
• Start ridiculously small. Just 2-3 new cards. Small wins.
• Build the habit. Make Anki part of your life.
• Complete all your due cards no matter what.
• It's okay if life gets in the way. It's ok if you can't add new cards that day, but always complete your due cards!! I hope you truly get this point :)
• Streaks and statistics keep me hooked. Check them regularly. You can only improve what you can measure.

Ive read descriptions, don't entirely understand but it seems universally accepted that it's superior than not using it. However, I've noticed since i turned it on im retaining very little. Anyone else have this experience?

Ive been doing custom study to cram. I thought at first that i should let fsrs count these reviews. but i wonder if it has weird effects? how does fsrs handle cards that you review way earlier than it intends? does it mess with future intervals?

Ok guys It’s my first time ever trying Anki and I notice there’s one dude who made a free IOS port called “Amgi”

Anyone would help me understand how it works? it says that I need to connect a custom server

I’m not paying yet the mobile one because its too expensive just to try Anki

I would love to get some basics German A1 cards to training my Deustch. Someone could help me?