I've been using Anki for a hybrid approach to learn for some university courses, learning with the Android app during commute and physical paper cards at home.
shameless plug: I wrote a small tool to export Anki decks to PDF: https://github.com/nordicway/a2pdf
Only works for simple cards though.
Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards
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Who cares? The point of Anki is the SRS, the rest is mere sparkles. Sparkles are awesome but Anki is a full featured, usable, extensible SRS.
I care about UI.
Sure, it's important, but it's like buying a pretty car that doesn't have a gas peddle attached to anything. It is THE key feature of the product.
SRS is really THAT important to flash cards.
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#93I used Anki for French and am currently using it for Spanish. It's TERRIFIC. It's the best method for brute-force memorization of vocabulary and conjugation. While it's a bit lengthy to set it up, the creation process actually helps with the memorization. Remember to only use photos where you can, dont use english words in it. The whole key is to skipping the "translation" step in your brain. Learn by thinking of the…
This technique might be helpful for the extremely basics, but what is something meaningful you would put on a card for something like hope or dignity that wouldn't be easily confused? I find pictures helpful but usually I use them to illustrate the example sentence and not the word itself.
I agree your original language is a crutch but what I've found has made get better faster is native language translations of the word. It takes a while to get comfortable doing that, but once you start doing it often enough it works very well.
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#94Free for the computer and android but $24.99 for iOS? That seems like a strange price scheme.
It's still very worth it. It's the one app I'll never uninstall.
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If you want to try an alternative, look at Mnemosyne: http://mnemosyne-proj.org/ I use this daily for my foreign language studies. It has less features than Anki, but the interface is pretty clean, intuitive to use, and has a powerful plugin system. Plus, the whole thing is open source, written in Python, and highly extensible.
Is there an iOS client perchance? I don't see anything listed specifically at the page.
You can run it on a server and use it over http.
To my knowledge, there are only (unofficial) clients for Android.
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#96Anyone studying Japanese should check out Flashcard Tree: http://www.flashcardtree.com/ It's an SRS like Anki with a focus on integrating real video content like Anime into the learning process.
I have used Anki a lot to learn Japanese. I think that the principle is not that great for languages. It helped me to remember the vocabulary and the kanji, but it only help me to acquire visual memory. When I hear Japanese, I am way too slow to make the relationship between the Japanese word and the associated concept. What comes to my mind first is the French word (my native language) and now I feel like I am learn…
Anki is not a substitute for a class or a textbook.
Its power comes from using it with those tools. I always struggle to memorize a word or kanji if the first time I see a word or kanji is in the program. It just isn't the right tool for that. But when I make cram decks for whatever chapter I'm studying at the moment, it becomes extremely easy to memorize that information.
In college I always did ok my vocabulary and kanji test but I was always spending hours doing it and it wasn't fun. When I got higher up and setup Anki to review only words from the current chapter I never really had to worry anymore about my quizzes because the information was already in my head. My scores consistently stayed high on those quizzes ever since. Once the current chapter was over I would add the information to the much larger deck of what I've studied already and exam season wasn't bad either because I never had a chance to forget any words.
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Why is this named AnkiApp? I won't use software that creates deliberate confusion by using the same name as another application with the same purpose.
because its anki for iphone there is also an ankidroid apk for android i think he meant to say that using the desktop appliation isn't really good to stay on top of the cards, while using a phone makes it very manageable.
Ankiapp appears to be something different. The web app Ankiapp links to below is not Anki's web app, and Ankiapp's site is copyright Admium Corp. instead of being attributed to Damien Elmes.
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#98This comment was killed -- mods, why? It's the only comment in this thread mentioning image occlusion, a hugely powerful anki technique. I've reproduced it below in it's entirety. """ Medical student here. I've tried many flashcard programs (StudyBlue, Quizlet, gFlashcard, MentalCase, and more), and Anki is by far the best for my needs. One thing that puts Anki in an orbital beyond the other programs is the ImageOccu…
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#99Medical student here. I've tried many flashcard programs (StudyBlue, Quizlet, gFlashcard, MentalCase, and more), and Anki is by far the best for my needs. One thing that puts Anki in an orbital beyond the other programs is the ImageOccusion editor add-on [1]. This lets you screenshot an image, draw rectangles over labels within that image, and then generate a flashcard for each label. This works insanely well for lea…
It's truly a small world, the guy who wrote that plugin is a med student at my fac, but I'd never heard of it. Thanks for introducing me to an awesome plugin, my anatomy classes would've been a breeze with it.
On a more serious note, I've been seeing some comments asking to share Anki decks. This is fine but you should read this disclaimer first (it's about language learning, but it should apply to other areas as well). http://fluent-forever.com/personal-anki-decks/
In short, Anki works better for reviewing rather than learning things for the first time. So the most efficient way to use it would be building your own deck for a more personal experience.
However, if using shared decks, it's best to only add cards to your review log after you've learned the underlying concepts (so that it doesn't break your review rhythm).
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#100Having studied Homeric Greek vocabulary for ~140 hours with Anki, the only change I found which made the experience more pleasant was to disable the card leeching. The "threat" of a card becoming a leech tended to take me out of the zone.
If one has 20 minutes to spare a day there is no reason one cannot gain a > 1000 word vocabulary in a foreign language in a matter of months. Anki comes highly recommended for vocabulary building.