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Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

#101
Been using Anki on and off for years for learning Japanese and more recently, have been using it for studying for university courses.

It’s a great tool, but it’s definitely got some oddities, like how its editor has every formatting and templating tool under the sun but is somehow missing spell check, how some features can only be had through fragile extensions, or how for some reason it’s one of the few programs one shouldn’t install from their distro’s package manager.

One of these days I’d like to take a crack at building my own cross-platform subject-agnostic SRS card app. There’s a number of things I’d do differently.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Ankidroid question here: On Android systems, if you use the free Japanese dictionary Japanese Kanji Study (by Chase Colburn) it can generate Anki flash cards directly from the app, so everytime you look up a word you can also generate the card for Ankidroid/Anki. Is there similar functionality in any Chinese dictionary app for Android?

Pleco: Settings - Flashcards - Flashcard System - select AnkiDroid I believe the wiki[0] lists most of the apps which use our API https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Third-Party-A...

I could never get Pleco to work. What settings do you use?

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

#103

I'm using a competitor on Android since both Anki apps (AnkiMobile and AnkiDroid) really aren't good enough for my language learning activity. They aren't as good as the desktop Anki app. I'm actually thinking of building my own app for a while since the all the flashcard apps on mobile don't really work for me. Not sure I'll find the motivation to do it though, I'm just using the least bad option I've found. Specifi…

Hi, I've recently integrated TTS into the AnkiDroid alpha series, could you give it a whirl when you have time?

TTS instructions: https://docs.ankiweb.net/templates/fields.html#text-to-speec...

Installing the alpha alongside stable: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pQZT9jNF6MU

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

#104
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It seems pretty good but your app is only targetting German right? I'm learning another language. Right now I'm using this one : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flashcards.wor... Which seems the only one I found supporting auto-TTS in lots of languages which you can toggle in the settings. The UI is truly awful though and the space repetition algorithm is kind of borked.

Ah, unfortunate. I will be adding more languages, but it will take some time. I prefer to have really figured out how to make the app great for German and then expanding, rather then doing everything at once.

Yeah that makes sense, the UI seems pretty good though, we are very far from what I'm using now. I could see myself using it if I was learning German.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

#105
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But that means you're doing tar flag flashcards more often than you're using those tar flags? Because otherwise, and for me, the CLI usage is the flashcard? Using them is what teaches me and keeps fresh the commands and flags that I most often use.

Not necessarily. Hypothetical example, but let's say I use some obscure tar command twice a month. That's too far apart for me to remember it, but often enough that it would annoy me to look it up every time. Chuck it into anki and I have a short time where I repeat it often enough so that it sticks and after that the time between repetitions quickly becomes far longer than the 14 day interval where I actually use th…

I think that's the original claim: That you're memorizing something that you use 12-20 times per year. Why not turn that into a script, or make it a memorable alias?

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

#106
post #82

(Shameless plug at the end) During my Erasmus in Germany, I've tried almost all of the top language learning apps (Duolingo, Babel, Seedlang, Anki...) and none of them have really worked me. What I wanted was: * Learning in context --> A lot of German words do not have direct English/Czech translation, so learning the 1:1 word translation did not work well * Having audio for each card * Intensive pace --> Going throu…

I’d recommend using GPT4 to generate English sentences and then Google Translate to get the German. Harder to get example sentences for a specific German word, but may improve the quality of the German. (I had this issue when generating specialized language learning podcasts in Swedish and Polish. Lots of English-isms in GPT4’s output).

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

#107

Anyone have suggestions for the lowest friction / best UX way to generate and study Anki cards? (my smartphone is Android, if that matters.) I know spaced repetition is super helpful and I should be making and study cards to help with language learning and other topics I'm studying, but it always feels like a slog to try to find a deck (which won't end up being what you want) or manually make a bunch of cards, the UI…

For language learning, I tend to watch TV with subtitles, type the new words into a text file, run that through Google translate (and edit a little bit), save as CSV, and import via the desktop app.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

#108
post #102

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Pleco: Settings - Flashcards - Flashcard System - select AnkiDroid I believe the wiki[0] lists most of the apps which use our API https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Third-Party-A...

I could never get Pleco to work. What settings do you use?

What do you mean 'not work': not adding cards, or AnkiDroid not appearing as an option?

I'm limited in time now, and HN isn't the best place for user support. If you post a reddit thread/on our Discord, I'll likely be able to help further.

Links to Discord/Reddit are inside AnkiDroid: Help - Community

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

#109
post #27

Anki has literally changed the way I think. It's insane how I can just choose to remember anything and how I have gotten really good at creating flashcards to the point where I predict how I'm going to learn when making flashcards. It is the one thing that has easily changed my life.

I see it as a commitment, this is something I will remember for as long as I choose to. If it becomes irrelevant, I can delete the card. If it's too hard, I'll break it down into simpler things, or sometimes I even just write stuff out on paper cards that I review throughout the day. But once it's in anki, I'm committing to remembering it.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

#110

Anki is unbeatable for acing any test with a bounded number of questions [1]. It's been successfully used by some top TV show contestants to remember thousands of words [2]. I've been using it recently to remember recipes and cooking facts, such as the time it takes to boil X vegetable, or the ingredients for some dish. Apart from language learning and medicine, there's a lack of pre-built decks that you can use to l…

Definitely interested in the Python cards - subscribed
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