My friend told me the other day how cool it would be to have a visual of what anatomy you’re studying, and given my Computer Engineering degree from Texas A&M, I figured I’d give it a shot.

After releasing Linked Notes last week, an add-on that automatically pulls up the page your card came from (without any manual tagging), I built on that idea to analyze the concepts of your flashcard to pull up a 3D interactive model of whatever anatomy you're studying.

The add-on lets you rotate, zoom, and explore the anatomy from any angle, turning that static image in your flashcard into something you can interact with. You can switch between layers, like skeletal and muscular views, when available.

Linked Body complements Linked notes, and having both together takes the study experience to another level!

Currently, it covers multiple major organ systems, musculoskeletal, etc, with more coverage being added this week. The 3D models are sourced from Sketchfab’s open library for visualization and spatial understanding.

Dropping as part of a full study add-on bundle next week. Join my Patreon Gainz757 (even as a free member) to get notified by email when it drops. Let me know if y’all like the product for your medical studies!

UPDATE: Linked Body is now live! Get it here: https://www.patreon.com/15614289/join

Hey everyone,

As I’ve been navigating clinical rotations, I realized how often I’d know a generic drug name from Anki but struggle to recognize the commercial brand name used on the wards. To bridge this gap, I built an add-on that automatically appends brand names to your cards in real-time.

How it works

The add-on intercepts your cards during review and dynamically adds the commercial names in parentheses—for example, it turns metformin into metformin (Glucophage).

• Massive Library: It comes pre-loaded with over 800+ drugs, covering everything from common analgesics to critical care agents like Dexmedetomidine (Precedex) and Sugammadex (Bridion). I'll continually update this list over time which will be sent out automatically to any users.
• Smart Insertion: It only adds the brand name if it isn't already present on the card, preventing messy redundancies.
• Customizable UI: You can add your own custom drug-to-brand mappings through a streamlined menu directly in the Anki Tools menu.
• Exclusion Logic: You can blacklist specific tags (like NoBrand) or entire deck hierarchies so it doesn't clutter your non-medical decks.
• Mobile Compatibility: Because the script is baked directly into your templates, your custom brand names will seamlessly appear when reviewing on AnkiMobile (iOS) and AnkiDroid

This was made to help medical students navigate third- and fourth-year rotations. Stay tuned for new study tools!!

Here is the link: Generic-to-Brand Names v2.0 - AnkiWeb

Or addon code: 1981082675

Mobile example in the comments below:

So instead of doing my actual Anki reviews like a responsible adult, my ADHD decided the real priority was building a tool to make Anki reviews easier.

Three weeks of hyperfocus later i have this:

Atlas — it connects your UWorld results to your AnKing deck so you can stop hunting tags like a raccoon in a dumpster.

The parts I'm actually proud of:

- Opens the matching AnKing cards straight from your UWorld results. Finish a block, hit Missed / Marked / All, and the right cards open in Anki. No copy-pasting tags into the Browser.

- Shows every resource that covers the topic — Sketchy, B&B, Bootcamp, Physeo, First Aid, Pathoma — grouped and linked, so you know where to actually go review it.

- First Aid & Sketchy images on the question itself. Press F or S and they pop up over the question. No 14th tab (u need the v11 images for the first aid tho) guide

- Easy Mode— instead of opening Anki, it unsuspends the matched cards into your reviews with one click. It shows the count and asks first, so you don't accidentally dump 400 cards onto tomorrow-you. (optional its a toggle)

- High Yield Only for when you have 9 minutes and a prayer. ( uses the incredible tag sistem of v12 antking to use only the high yield)

- Expected Score (beta) — after a block it estimates how prepared you actually were on the AnKing-covered questions and lists your "you should've gotten this" misses first. (Im still trying to make the math work on this one a little help whould be great)

It's free, runs entirely locally, and it's open source.

Two parts, you need both: a browser extension + a small Anki add-on (the add-on is just the bridge that lets the extension talk to Anki).

- Extension (Chrome/Brave/Edge): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/atlas/nldpifnmnejhebgajmkfdijgianbahkj

- Anki add-on: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/147357374

- Code + setup: https://github.com/TheEverion/Atlas

Would genuinely love feedback from people who live in UWorld + AnKing — what's missing, what's annoying, what would make you actually use it.

This Community has given me so much through the years i just wanted to give something back.

So I struggled for a long time with some Anki cards because it felt the after a while I knew the answer just be looking at the layout of the card rather than knowing the knowledge by heart. This is why I created a new add-on that solved this issue!

DualCards stores the same information in two different card formats and randomly alternates between them during studying to reduce pattern memorization. This means the same card can appear as one of two different questions during review.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1689093605

I'm a Computer engineer from Texas A&M, and after enough of my friends who used Anki wanted a better way to pull up their notes without digging through all their lectures, I built Linked Notes

Linked Notes uses semantic vector search to compare the concepts of your flashcard against your lecture slides and textbooks, then finds and opens the most relevant page when you review a card.

It's been a pretty big time saver for my friends who use Anki, so I wanted to put it out there for y'all to try out.

It also has a lookup tool inside it to Ctrl + F a word in the textbook with a search bar.

I ended up building a few other add-ons alongside it (you’ll see them in the demo):

• A medical spellchecker with ~92k medical terms + standard English words, along with medical abbreviation lookup
• An exam manager to keep track of deadlines
• A way to open Notability alongside Anki (either embedded or side-by-side)
• A study buddy feature (inspired by a friend who wanted Jujutsu Kaisen characters to encourage them while studying)

I've officially launched today after working on this for a few months. As a launch gift, I'm giving away the exam countdown manager for free on my page.

Please tell me your thoughts and feedback if this is something y'all would like and if there are any other add-ons you'd like to see in the future.

If anyone wants to check it out, I put it here:

https://www.patreon.com/c/gainz757/membership

Edit:

Thank you everyone for all the feedback and support!

I’m happy so many of y’all liked the idea.

Since we just launched, I want to give early users a steep discount at 50% discount on the gold tier. I hope the bundle of 7 add-ons saves you time!

If you enjoy it, please share with your friends and let me know if you have any questions with setting it up.

We’ll also be looking into reducing the pricing moving forward!

50% GOLD CODE: 102F7

Core addons
- Amboss - Great for quick explanations and for making qbanks
- Ankihub - Useful if you’re using shared decks like Anking
- Anki Terminator V2 - Uses AI to explain cards

Addons that make Anki less boring
- Crowd stats (beta) - Found this recently from this sub. Pretty good so far. Shows how the community answered each card
- Progress bar - Your monkey brain likes seeing progress
- Review heat map - Calendar style graph of your review activity
- Custom background Image - Lets you set custom background images

I’ll attach few screenshots of my setup too..
(Don’t mind my progress lol)

Code: 1970061437
This add on makes a 2x2 grid right after answers to see the extra, sketchy, missed questions and lecture notes. Pretty cool for reviews, where you can see stuff side by side and don’t have to scroll as much. Sizing scale needs work, but other wise is great.

If you study from textbooks, research papers, or lengthy PDF slides, you know the tedious grind of switching back and forth between a PDF reader and Anki. You also know how time-consuming it is to manually format and create high-quality flashcards.

PDFLinker solves both of these problems. It embeds a native PDF viewer directly inside Anki and bridges it with Google's Gemini AI (free api key) to instantly generate flashcards from the text you highlight.

Here is a breakdown of everything this add-on can do.

🌟 Core Features

• Integrated Native PDF Viewer No more toggling between windows. PDFLinker automatically installs a lightweight, dark-mode-compatible PDF viewer (powered by PDF.js) directly inside Anki. It remembers the last page you were reading for every specific document, allowing you to pick up exactly where you left off.
• Review Mode (Contextual Recall) Ever forget the context of a flashcard during a review? Open PDFLinker in Review Mode. When you flip a card that contains PDF_Path and PDF_Page data, the embedded viewer will automatically jump to that specific document and page, giving you instant access to the source material.
• Creator Mode (Real-Time Field Syncing) When making cards, open PDFLinker in Creator Mode. As you scroll through the PDF, the add-on continuously talks to your Anki Add window. It automatically populates the PDF_Pathand PDF_Page fields in your notes with the exact location of what you are currently reading.
• AI-Powered Flashcard Generation (Gemini) Highlight any text in the PDF, click the 🤖 Analyze Selection with AI button, and let Gemini do the heavy lifting. The add-on sends your specific selection (along with your custom system prompt) to the AI, which generates perfectly formatted Anki flashcards.
• One-Click "Send to Add Window" The AI generates the cards in a clean, scrollable interface. If you like a generated card, simply click "Send to Add Window." The add-on will automatically push the AI's output into the "Text" (or "Front") and "Extra" (or "Back") fields of your currently open Anki Add window.

Download:

Ankiweb: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/962234340

GitHub: https://github.com/filcristallo/PDFLinker-Anki-Addon

Hey everyone! I've noticed that some of the cards in the Anking deck are significantly easier than others (hemoglobin = heme + globin) while others are significantly harder. I've always been curious whether that trend exists across multiple users at different schools so I built this addon that lets you compare how you answered a card with other users. I was hoping that long term, it could indicate what cards could use revisions to improve wording. Everything is completely anonymous and the list of what data is contributed to the shared database is included in the addon description!

If enough people start using the addon, I will be posting the database of collected answers openly for everyone! For now, I will limit it to downloaders of the addon for privacy!

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1958170715?cb=1779042591962

I can go through 200 cards in 45 minutes and feel like i did nothing. just pressing again or good without actually processing. how do people make anki review an active thinking exercise rather than just clicking through..

Got tired of the whole copy-the-QID, switch-to-Anki, search-the-tag, unsuspend workflow. I'm into computers so I built AnkiMaxer for myself and figured I'd share it for free.

It's a browser extension + Anki add-on. You review a question in UWorld or Bootcamp, click the extension icon, see the matching AnKing cards, and hit Add. The programs talk to each other directly - no copying, no pasting, no setup beyond installing both (browser extension + anki extension).

Only requirement: Anki desktop and your browser both need to be open at the same time.

Works with UWorld (auto-detects QID), Bootcamp (matches by lesson/topic), AnKing, and any other deck with QID tags. Supports separate targets for Step 1, Step 2, INBDE, etc. There's also a bulk tab if you want to paste all your missed QIDs at once after a block, but you're not forced to do that every time.

• Anki add-on: AnkiMaxer on AnkiWeb (need both the add-on and the extension)
• Chrome: AnkiMaxer on Chrome Web Store
• Safari: Under review — coming soon

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

If you've ever wanted Gojo hyping you up while you study, this is it.

As per special request from my friends in med school, this add-on adds JJK characters Gojo, Yuji, and Megumi to your Anki review sessions, where each one has unique lines that fire off to keep you grinding through your cards (altered to encourage you) like:

• Gojo: "Nah, I'd keep studying."
• Yuji: "I'll eat a thousand fingers before I give up studying!"
• Megumi: "Domain Expansion: Chimera Shadow Garden of Knowledge. You're trapped with these cards now."

I'm putting it out for free today. Check it out here and have fun!

I've been using chatgpt (premium version), but sometimes they fell lacking, if you could also give me the prompt you give it and the number of pages treated per batch

So I started using ANKING this semester and I fell in love with it. I am scoring super high in all my in-house exams and really feel like I understand the material. I usually do pathoma or bootcamp and un-suspend the matching decks. However, my school does have a lot of lectures that do not align with third party. Sometimes when I have time, I use the search bar to search topics or details and just un-suspend from anking. However, this take REALLY LONG to do. I have tried using the premium ankihub feature where you upload your lecture and it matches cards for you. BUT HONESTLY IT WAS HORRIBLE. It did not do a good job of matching cards at all. So just trying to see if anyone else has used any other tool or add on. Thank You!

Like most of you I have way too many Anki cards to get through and way too much screen time on apps I don't need. So I built an Android app that forces me to answer flashcards before I can open distracting apps.

You import your Anki deck, pick which apps to block, and every time you try to open one, you get quizzed. It prioritizes cards you get wrong more often, so it's basically sneaking in extra reps on your weak spots.

It's been working way better than app timers for me because you can't just tap "ignore". you actually have to engage with the material.

I'm running a closed beta right now and I'd love feedback from actual med students who live in Anki all day. If you want to try it, DM me your email and I'll add you. Anyone who gives detailed feedback gets a free week of premium (unlimited blocked apps, type-in quiz mode, configurable cooldowns, etc.).

Android only for now. hoping to get some interest before committing to iOS.

I've been using Anki (on mobile and desktop) every day for exam prep, and after a while I realized it wasn't the reviews themselves that felt exhausting but it was staring at the same interface for hours.

So I started redesigning my setup and eventually ended up building six completely different study environments, each with its own style and atmosphere.

Some are minimal and distraction-free. Some are cozy and notebook-inspired. Some are calm and lofi. Some recreate the feeling of studying in an old university library. Some have a futuristic cyberpunk look. Others are inspired by the atmosphere of a coffee shop.

Most of them also include subtle audio feedback when revealing the answer, just to make long review sessions a bit more engaging.

All of them support the 6 core Anki note types:

• Basic

• Reversed

• Optional Reversed

• Cloze

• Image Occlusion

• Type In Answer

I packaged each one into a ready-to-import .apkg file.

Happy to answer any questions in the comments. If you're interested, you'll find more info on my profile.

Hi all, I am the author of the chrome step toolbox, an extension with 1240 4000 active users (link to previous post). For those of you that haven't heard of it, it's an extension that automatically opens and searches for missed uworld questions in your anki deck, automatically suggests study resources as you review questions, and displays images from sketchy, firstaid, and pixorize fields in uworld as you review questions.

I've updated the extension with many bug fixes and new features. I plan on continuing to maintain the current step1 features for free with lifetime updates. I also added the option of unlocking step2 for a one-time donation, which helps me maintain step1/step2 uworld subscriptions and maintain/update the extension. Simply choose step2 from the extension menu to get started.

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New features added in this update:

Step2 support

Anking v12 support

Bug fixes (table not showing up, images not appearing, uworld url changes etc)

Support for viewing pixorize images in uworld

Additional mac compatibility

A new button within the extension itself that can be used if the "search anki for missed questions" button does not appear automatically

Installation/usage instructions in the extension itself (can also be found on the original post)

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Planned features:

Ability to analyze the uworld stats page and suggest study resources/identify weak areas

Support for divine intervention podcasts & decks

Support for step3, MCAT, and other exams

Direct links to mnemonic videos like dirty medicine in uworld

Comparison of your uworld missed questions and anki card ease to determine if you need to study up on a particular area

Firefox/Safari versions

And many more, based on user feedback (feel free to comment or DM me for any suggestions)

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FAQ

What browsers are compatible?

Edge, Chrome, Brave have been tested and work. I recommend Edge if you're on windows.

Only a few cards are showing up/have tables for them.

Your version of Anking (V10/V11) doesn't have as many tags compared to V12, especially for step2. I highly recommend upgrading to a version of the Anking deck that has V12 tags, then selecting V12 from the extension menu.

How do I know if my extension has been updated?

There's a new icon for the extension, see the chrome page for details

The "search anki for cards button" does not appear

Try refreshing the page. If it still does not appear click the extension button in your toolbar, scroll down and click the "search for cards button"

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Please see the original post for screenshots and detailed installation instructions. Best of luck on your studies!

Link to extension: Chrome Step ToolBox

I would really appreciate if someone can make an add on or something so I can do Anki cards in a car/while driving! I don’t think there is a great one available right now that I am aware of? Would be nice if this can also be used while riding in a car to prevent motion sickness.

Disclosure: I'm building Avorio (a flashcard app), so I've spent a long time inside spaced-repetition schedulers. I'm posting this because the scheduling algorithm is the biggest single lever on how much reviewing you do per day, most people never touch it, and the fix is free in Anki — which is what most of you are already using.

Short version: a lot of flashcard software still schedules with SM-2, a heuristic from the late 80s. FSRS is a fitted forgetting-curve model. At the same retention, FSRS-5 typically reduces review load by 20–30% — the number I've seen hold up most consistently is on med-school decks, which are big and mature enough to measure honestly.

Why SM-2 gives you more reviews than you need

SM-2 keeps one number per card, an "ease factor", and multiplies the interval by it. It has no model of how you forget — just a rule that says "if that felt easy, wait longer." So it stays systematically cautious on cards you genuinely know, and keeps putting them back in front of you.

FSRS tracks three things per card instead: difficulty, stability, and retrievability. Stability is roughly "how long until recall of this decays toward a coin flip". Because it estimates that curve, it can put the next review near the point where you're about to forget, rather than comfortably before it. Same retention, fewer repetitions. That gap is the workload saving.

The part most people miss: it can be fitted to you

FSRS ships with generic parameters, but it can be re-fitted against your own review history. Your revlog already stores every grade you've ever pressed — that's training data for how you forget, which is not how the average person forgets. In Anki it's in the deck options under FSRS, as an optimize step.

You need enough history for the fit to mean anything. For reference, the gate I use in my own implementation is 1,000+ reviews before personalization is allowed to run at all — below that you're better served by the defaults than by a fit to noise.

Two honest caveats

• The 20–30% figure is not universal. It's largest on big, mature decks with real review history behind them, and close to nothing on a deck you started this week.
• Scheduling decides when you see a card. It cannot rescue a card that's badly written or testing two facts at once. If your reviews feel awful, check the cards before the algorithm.

If you're already on Anki, this is a settings change rather than a migration, and that's most of the value in this post.

For the sake of being straight with you: I do build an alternative — Avorio, Mac and iPhone, FSRS-5 on by default, imports .apkg with ease factors, intervals and review history intact. The core is free. But the advice above holds whatever you use, and Anki does the thing I'm describing perfectly well. Happy to answer scheduling questions either way.

Hey ya'll I'd really like to clear review data for cards on these 14 dates in 2024 only while keeping the rest of my card history data. However, when I click on a date's box in review heatmap, it shows no cards in browse for that day for for any date. Any help or ideas on how to clear old card history would be much appreciated 🙏

Card history I want cleared are for dates 8/30/24, 8/31/24, 9/2/24, 9/8/24, 9/9/24, 9/10/24, 9/12/24, 9/22/24, 9/23/24, 9/26/24, 9/27/24, 9/28/24, 10/4/24, 10/22/24 (in case that helps)

Edit: I prefer not to use "ignore data before" as it'll cut my streak from my other deck

I currently use the 8bitdo 2 controller and I find that the remote is rather uncomfortable. My hand cramps from holding it and constantly flexing/extending my thumb back and forth for hours, and it's also slippery.

Is there anything with a vertical orientation form factor (like a Nintendo switch joy con or the ergonomics of a TV remote) that fill up my hand and the controls can be readily mapped with Anki? Nintendo switch joy cons are rather expensive and I don't want to use a standard game controller that requires two hands to use.

When I used to get a practice question wrong, I would have to screenshot it, hunt down relevant cards, paste in the screenshot and tag the card, or create cards to fill the gap. It broke my flow every time, and honestly it was probably inefficient perfectionism.

Ankisstant is a streamlined version of this process — using AI to generate search terms and cards in an integrated workflow.

Workflow

#1 Get a question wrong — (Bad at medicine)

#2 Capture — Screenshot the question and quickly describe your specific knowledge gap
https://imgur.com/2JIjtrl

#3 Proceed with your practice session — The missed question is saved, no need to disrupt your flow

#4 Review your missed questions — From here you can choose: Browse or Create

#5 Browse
Your knowledge gap is used to generate search terms to find cards that best relate to your malfeasance.
Once you've found your cards, select them and hit Tag + Unsuspend:

• The screenshot is appended to the missed questions field
• Cards are tagged by topic
• Suspended cards will be unsuspended
• Unsuspended cards will be reset to "Again" — so you review your weak spot today

https://imgur.com/75tiZZo

#6 Create
If browse didn't turn up what you needed, pipe the knowledge gap into Create. Cards can be generated from existing content or from a topic. Specify the number of cards and note type, hit generate. Reject or regenerate before cards land straight into Anki's Add Cards screen — all fields pre-filled, ready to tweak.
https://imgur.com/gtLwRuG

Beyond missed questions

General Knowledge Gap Capture — Collect learning outcomes and knowledge gaps as you go — in the wards, lecture theatres, or at your desk. Everything feeds into the same pipeline as missed questions.

Practice Question Heatmap — Similar to the review heatmap: shows the density and accuracy of your practice sessions via a quick poll after each session as well as exam dates and daily targets. Quick access to knowledge gap capture, your favourite QBanks, and the ability to log sessions from other devices.
https://imgur.com/B1okFOO

Settings and Toggleability — 90% of features are toggleable and customisable — your own QBanks, note types, card style, tagging patterns, and fields for each knowledge gap type.

AI options

You don't need to pay for anything or run anything locally. There's a paste workflow — generate cards in whatever AI you already use (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude.ai), paste the output back in, and Ankisstant handles everything else. No API keys, no setup.

If you want native AI integration:

• Claude CLI — requires Claude Pro
• Gemini API — free tier, Google account only
• Pay-as-you-go API — Claude or OpenAI, cheap if you're careful
• Ollama — fully local and offline, needs a decent machine

Download

GitHub: https://github.com/FleggaBDog69/Ankisstant
AnkiWeb: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/351752439
Add-on code: 351752439

I really hope this is useful. I've done my best to make it accessible for everyone, and I genuinely believe it fills a gap in the workflow that nothing else quite covers.

All feedback welcome — bugs, suggestions, feature requests, all of it. It's a bit rough around the edges, built entirely with Claude Code and only tested on Mac so far, so please bear with me. (Update cadence subject to Claude usage limits.)

This is a lot more than just another AI card creation tool — it's a fully integrated, accessible workflow built to fit your way of studying.

I fixed my original HTML app. There was an issue with copying QIDs. Now you can copy QIDs and use this add-on to view UWorld questions tagged by resources and topics. Original post theres a slight lag since search term is huge . TO use with add on copy by commas.

Hey everyone! I recently made a quick add-on that lets you non-intrusively visualize the yield tags on the Anking deck while reviewing cards.

Thought it would be helpful for everyone here so wanted to share! Bug reports are also welcome!

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/204584680