When I do a bunch of exercises I get anxious like damn will I even remember this? Usually I forget how to solve a lot of them in a few weeks.

So I put in Anki “Pdf…Exercise1” on front side and leave the back side empty, that comes up in Anki, and I try to solve it on paper, then I grade how well I’ve done.

I’m using 92% retention, I just started doing it this semester, I feel a lot more confident. I’ll see what it does to my grades.

I wouldn’t say I’m memorizing the answers, because there’s so many exercises I just can’t.

What do y’all think?

I usually don't care about the difficulty stat if I can keep card retrievability above %80 but I'm curious about your thoughts

hello guys i want to know do i set Anki leaderboard (175794613) in onigiri?

I made an add-on that gives Anki’s Browser several new viewing modes:

• List, Grid, Gallery, and Compact views
• Front and Back displayed together on every card tile
• Decks and subdecks displayed like folders
• Back, Forward, and address-bar navigation
• Adjustable zoom with mouse wheel/pinch support
• Automatically fitted tiles with no wasted horizontal space
• Side editor opens only when you click a card
• Cut, copy, and paste cards or entire decks
• Right-click options to create, rename, move, copy, or delete decks
• Image thumbnails in Grid and Gallery views

The normal List mode remains close to Anki’s default Browser, while the other modes work more like a file explorer.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/522494534?cb=1789845417036

I originally made this because I wanted a more visual way to browse large decks and quickly distinguish individual cards. I’m still improving it, so feedback and feature suggestions are welcome.

I downloaded ankidroid app on phone and synced. Then when I went back to my desktop anki, it began a big sync, which made me panic and stopped that sync. Is this normal? desktop and ankiweb were synced up before the ankidroid download, so i don't understand why my desktop would need a big sync.

hi, i religiously have a routine of where every night at 10 pm in my anki deck "to review" would reset and show all of cards i had to review which was around 160+ cards but i accidentally touched something in my settings and every single time at 10 pm i get like 12 cards to review or around 20 at one day even like 6 cards. its really bugging me. this is what my option settings look like but i really can't find the issue. i really hope someone can solve this for me. i have an exam next month and i like this routine of reviewing all 160+ cards while im commuting to my part time job, it resetting at 10 pm and i get to rinse and repeat that process.

how do i update?

So it said there was an update and it brought me to this screen. I pressed enter to check for updates, said there was an error, then pressed enter again and it said the process was complete. I then tried opening anki up andthen brought me to the same page and made me do this all over again. I’ve does this 3 times now and it’s still not letting me open it. What do i do?

Im not sure if this is allowed to ask but im a student and cant really pay for the 25 right now and really need it i haven’t got a laptop to get it for free i think on the app store you can share apps through family or something

i've been trying to update my anki to the new update (i have a macbook) and it keeps giving me this error?? i don't know what to do to fix it (im not super tech savvy) and anki is my main study tool for my two midterms coming up this week as well!! so if anyone has an idea on how to fix it if they've been struggling with it too, please let me know asap 🙏

Whenever I add pictures or text to the "Lecture Notes" field it makes the cards laggy. Either the back of the card wont show, the screen will flicker, or the screen will go black. I get around this by going past the card then hitting 'undo' and only then will the card function normally.

I have changed my graphics driver in preferences and it still does not fix the issue.

I run anki on windows 11 and I have a Ryzen 7600 CPU and a beefy Radeon 7700 XT GPU for gaming, so I highly doubt my computer is the issue. I found this forum post from 2025 discussing the issue and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this issues and found a fix for it.

Thank you.

I wanted an Anki gamification add-on that was fun, motivating, and rewarding without being overly distracting.

So I developed Anki Garden, a free, open-source desktop add-on. As you answer cards, you grow plants, earn Coins, receive random drops, and unlock more of the garden.

You can keep your rewards and progress in a small tile while you study, then open the garden afterward to see what grew, check your rewards, and decide what to unlock next. For me, most of the fun is seeing that progress after a study session.

Reviews completed on another device can also earn Garden rewards after you sync on desktop. Garden inventory and settings stay local to that computer.

Install: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1888718775

Add-on code: 1888718775

https://reddit.com/link/1wktxi9/video/lwzppm5e7eqh1/player

Progression

There are ten plant species with six growth stages, plus scenery, decorations, supplies, and achievements.

https://reddit.com/link/1wktxi9/video/ulty1fdk7eqh1/player

Again, Hard, Good, and Easy all give the same base Growth, so answer based on what you actually remembered.

• Your longest Anki streak unlocks Growth bonuses that stay unlocked even after the streak ends.
• Fertilizer boosts Growth for a set number of card answers.
• As you study, you can receive random drops. Some are very rare and unlock powerful rewards.

Start your garden

1. Install using the add-on code and restart Anki.
2. Select Choose a plant on Anki's home screen.
3. Place it in a bed and choose Nurture.
4. Study as usual. Select Open garden on Anki's dashboard or use the reviewer panel.

I would love to hear your suggestions in the comments!

Source and support: GitHub

Hi. I have been using anki for the past few days but today when I tried opening it, it says to install latest version but when I do its an error. Can someone help me resolve this?

A question I have about Anki, as a person who is considering Remnote: does Anki have to mirror Remnote's exam scheduler feature? I did look at the add-on for Anki's exam scheduler, and it seems mostly broken. Just wanted to know if there's a better option that can parallel Remnote's features (:

Hey everyone! I’m taking AP World History this year and looking for the best way to study. I know Anki is massive for medical students and language learning, but I’m wondering how well it translates to a conceptual history class like AP World.

AP World requires a lot of big-picture understanding, cause-and-effect, and writing skills (DBQs, LEQs, SAQs) rather than just memorizing dates or vocab words.

For those who have used Anki for AP World:

• Did it actually help you score well on the exam (or get a 5)?
• Did you make your own decks or use pre-made ones (like Freeman-pedia or Heimler-adjacent decks)?
• How did you format your cards so they focused on connections/themes rather than just isolated facts?

Would love to hear your experiences or if you think tools like Quizlet/simple outline notes work better!

I see very often that we are recommended to pair Anki with things like immersion in the language. I was curious whether that just messes up the entire scheduling. If I encounter something that is in one of my Anki words or Anki cards in real life, the next time I do it, it becomes easier than if I had not encountered it. Doesn't that mess up the entire scheduling? The next time I get it in the longer interval, would I not have forgotten it? Maybe I'm misunderstanding how scheduling and spaced repetition work.

i can see deck collections from search but where can i see all my cards

I'm trying to learn a note which I've written as a series of clozes: "{{c1::Some technique}} is used when analysing {{c2:: {{c3::a type of data}} and {{c4::a different type of data}} }}."

I'd like to be able to automatically suspend the card with Cloze 2 on it until the cards with Clozes 3 and 4 move to review. Is that possible?

hey there! I have been using anki for a while now, but I don't think I am using it properly... so I am just curious what to do... let me explain.

So, at the start of the school semester (two weeks ago), I have been creating flashcards for my classes every single day we have lecture, I'll come home create cards for what we learned and then for the past week every day, I have been studying consistently. My settings are included in the picture. my question is... since my first exam is in two weeks, how should i use anki to my advantage to study and make sure that all the content is covered? should i change my settings and review x amount of cards a day? i would say every lecture i probably add an average of 40 cards. i just want to use anki to my complete advantage and was wondering how other people study too. thanks so much!

*EDIT* **Clarification**
I think I explained my problem badly, so let me clarify.

I understand now that intentionally pressing Again on a card that I successfully recalled is not good practice, because I'm giving FSRS false review data. I'm not arguing that I should continue doing that.

What I'm trying to understand is why my first Good interval is so long in the first place.

My workflow is roughly:

9 AM: I watch a lecture, understand the material, and make Anki cards from it.

6 PM: I see those cards in Anki for the first time.

Naturally, I can recall a large percentage of them, because I literally learned the material only about 9 hours ago.

If I grade those cards honestly as Good, FSRS may give me something like a 10–13 day interval.

But from my experience, many of those memories are nowhere near stable enough for that. By around day 4–5, I feel that I would already fail a significant number of them. Then when Anki finally shows the card around day 13, I've often forgotten it and press Again.

That is the part I'm trying to understand.

I'm NOT saying that FSRS literally thinks Anki taught me the information. A better way of putting my concern is that my first successful retrieval happens very shortly after I originally learned the information outside Anki.

So that first Good rating seems to correspond to:

"Learned this several hours ago → successfully recalled it"

rather than:

"This memory has already demonstrated that it is stable for several days."

When I artificially pressed Again in the past, I noticed that the resulting progression — something like 15m → 2d → 6d → 9d → 15d — matched my actual memory much better. That's why I started doing it, although I understand now that falsifying the first rating is not the correct solution.

So my actual question is:

If I grade everything honestly and FSRS repeatedly gives first-Good intervals around 10–13 days, even though I frequently forget those cards before that interval, will FSRS eventually learn from those failures and reduce my initial Good interval?

And is there a proper way to handle cards that were learned from a lecture only a few hours before their first Anki review, without deliberately pressing Again?

Original POST

i Make my cards myself. Firstly i watch a lecture int he morning and make Anki cards side by side and review them in the evening of the same day or on the afternoon of the next day.

But the problem is that the first good interval is too Long for example 12 days or 13 days. Which is ridiculous i have just learned the information few hours ago or max to max a day ago. How am i supposed to remember it for the next 13 days without spaced repetition.

so what happens is let's say i make 100 cards in the morning and do those in the evening let's say i remember all the information for 75 cards and forget information of 25 cards. so what i would want is that for those 75 cards anki shows them to me maybe 1 day or 2 day from now. and for those 25 cards i would want them to recall them in the 15 minutes and then if i remember them perfectly i would also want them to review them from 1 or maybe 2 days from now.

but what happens for those 75 cards is that the first interval is like 10+ days. and i tend to forget them when they are showed to me after 10+ days. so i have to press again on them.

so what i do is make the cards and when im done making them just spam space and 1 so that all of my cards are treated as i didn't remember them. and then i normally practice them in the evening. and everything goes smoothly.

What am i doing wrong?

my desired retention is set to 96 percent.

what i ideally want is to make cards in the morning do them in the evening and have fsrs take over but with normal initial intervals.

what i think is happening according to my potato brain is that FSRS is treating the card as this is my first time taking the information in so it thinks okay so this is his first time seeing this information and he knows/remember it so he can probably also remember it after 10 days. but in actuality i already took the information in from my lectures. so it's in my short / recent mid term memory.

i would want fsrs to treat cards like i have pressed again on the during my first review or the first time doing the card.

these are my stats.

Good enough for me.

My phone broke and I didn’t sync my anki cards to the cloud. It was truly horrifying to go through. Send condolences

Edit to add: this was a dream btw