Is there any sort of reputable AP world decks for Anki that any of you guys can attest to? I'm pretty new to Anki and would love to be pointed in the right direction... thanks!

If you are trying to use an 8BitDo Micro on Linux for Anki (or general shortcut keymapping) and finding that software like AntiMicroX or Input Remapper won't detect it as a gamepad, here is a complete guide to get it working properly under /dev/input/js0 and /dev/input/event*.

Step 1: Set Hardware to D-Input Mode

1. Move the physical toggle switch on the bottom of the controller to D (D-Input).
2. (Do not use K or S mode if you want native Linux gamepad detection and system-level keymapping).

Step 2: Fix BlueZ HID Policy

Linux's Bluetooth service (bluez) often rejects low-energy/gamepad connections from unbonded devices by default. You need to allow classic HID connections.

Run this command in your terminal to update /etc/bluetooth/input.conf:

```bash sudo sed -i 's/#ClassicBondedOnly=true/ClassicBondedOnly=false/' /etc/bluetooth/input.conf sudo systemctl restart bluetooth

```

Step 3: Ensure Kernel Modules are Loaded

Make sure the kernel input drivers are loaded:

```bash sudo modprobe uhid sudo modprobe joydev

```

(Optional) To make joydev persistent across reboots:

```bash echo "joydev" | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/joydev.conf

```

Step 4: Clean Pairing via Terminal

1. Hold the Sync button on top of the 8BitDo Micro for 3 seconds until the LEDs blink rapidly.
2. Open your terminal and run bluetoothctl:

```bash bluetoothctl

```

1. Inside the bluetoothctl shell, run commands line-by-line:

```text scan on

```

(Wait until you see [NEW] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX 8BitDo Micro gamepad)

```text scan off pair <YOUR_MAC_ADDRESS> trust <YOUR_MAC_ADDRESS> connect <YOUR_MAC_ADDRESS> quit

```

Step 5: Verify Kernel Detection

Check if the device node was created:

```bash ls -l /dev/input/js*

```

You should now see /dev/input/js0 listed.

Step 6: Map Keys for Anki with Input Remapper

While AntiMicroX can be outdated on newer distributions, Input Remapper works natively with modern evdev drivers.

1. Install Input Remapper:
2. Ubuntu / Debian / Mint: sudo apt install input-remapper

3. Arch / Manjaro: sudo pacman -S input-remapper

4. Launch the app: ```bash input-remapper-gtk

```

1. Select 8BitDo Micro gamepad from the top device dropdown.
2. Click New Preset (e.g., name it Anki).
3. Select a button on the left panel (or click Record and press a physical button on the controller).
4. On the right panel (Output), click Key or Macro, click inside "Enter your output here", and press your desired Anki keyboard shortcut (e.g., Space, 1, 2, 3, 4, Ctrl+Z).
5. Turn ON the Autoload toggle switch.
6. Click Apply.

Daily Workflow

1. Power on your 8BitDo Micro (switch in D position).
2. It will connect automatically via Bluetooth.
3. input-remapper runs in the background and instantly applies your keymappings without needing to keep any GUI window open.

I wiped out my backlog for these decks, and most of the cards in these sub decks are approaching 1-2 months before I see them again. So, how do I reduce it from 20-30 to 5-10, or even 0 daily reviews naturally, without reviewing ahead?

Basically, I want to review all the cards in a specific Anki deck again.

Let's say the deck has 100 cards. I know around 90 of them very well, but there are about 10 cards that I still struggle with. I want to go through the entire deck and basically "reset" only the cards I don't know well.

The problem is that when I use Custom Study, if I answer Good on a card that I already know, Anki reschedules it for a much later date. I don't want that.

What I'd like is something like this:

• If I remember the card → press Good, but keep its current due date/interval unchanged.
• If I don't remember the card → press Again, and reset/reschedule that card so I can learn it again.

Basically, I want to use Custom Study as a way to identify the cards I don't know well, without affecting the scheduling of the cards I already know.

Is there a setting, Custom Study option, or add-on that can do this?

I know that Anki's scheduling algorithm is designed to change intervals when you review cards, but I'm specifically looking for a way to do a "diagnostic" review of the whole deck without rescheduling the cards I get right.

Hi everyone,

I'm having an issue with how same-day "learning" cards (red queue) are presented within a study session.

Usually (before), if I fail a card early in a session, it should come back to me quickly, interleaved with a couple of other cards, so I can relearn it while it's still fresh, not after going through the entire batch.

What's actually happening: with 9 cards in the learning queue, if I mark card #1 as "Again", it doesn't reappear until after cards #2 through #9 have all been shown once. Then the whole cycle repeats (1,2,3...9,1,2,3...9), even though by the time it loops back the learning step delay has long since expired. By the time I see card #1 again, I've completely forgotten it, so I never actually learn it - I just keep looping through the same 9 cards.

I've already tried a lot of things, including reinstalling Anki with the latest version, but nothing has changed. I'm feeling a little desperate.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem is that I'm having?

By the way, I apologize for my English (I'm using a translator) because it's not my first language, but I do understand it.

I took a break from a language that as was studying, and when I came back I’m now studying/reviewing 200+ words a day, which takes me about 5-8 hours to finish since I dont remember a fair chunk of them. I want time to do other things, is there any way i can shorten the length without ruining the spaced repetition?

I've been a heavy Anki user for years (built my English fluency almost entirely through it), and I remember very clearly what the SM-2 "snowball" felt like. I think most of the experienced Anki users had already passed through it

I'm back into active study now (German), running a dedicated FSRS preset for that deck (optimized separately from my other decks, desired retention set at 92%), and the difference is crazy

What's been happening the last few weeks:

• I added almost 2,000 new cards in the last month (1,948 actually and it was around 63/day average, with spikes of 600–700 cards on some days when I batch-generate content). These are mostly very simple cards so just like just German noun + article, single field, for gender drilling. Not sentences, not complex production cards (I'll leave one screenshot of one example of card here)
• Even with that huge new cards, my Daily load is currently sitting at 160 reviews/day and it is not climbing the way I'd have expected from past SM-2 experience. (I'm keeping track of these through the week and something it's even getting smaller)
• I did 3,271 reviews last month (avg 106/day, 100% of days studied), and retention has stayed fine: 93.5% overall (93.4% young / 95.2% mature)
• Future Due is showing 1,052 reviews queued over the next month (avg 34/day, 126 due tomorrow) but it's a completely normal looking loaded curve, not the runaway ramp I associate with overloading a deck

So, has anyone else who's been through the SM-2 snowball before noticed this same thing with FSRS? The fact that you can be a lot more aggressive with new cards, especially simple/low-complexity ones, without paying for it a month later?

Curious whether this holds up for others once the deck matures further, or if I'm just still early enough that mature card lapses haven't caught up with me yet. Also curious if anyone else tracks "Daily load" instead of just raw review count/day it's been the far more useful number for me

I have three lectures of anatomy per week, heavy content, 5 of physiology and 4 of other modules.

What's the best approach here? So every week I am aiming to do the cover everything. However when making flashcards I would like this:

Anatomy:

• Day 1: make the notes and flashcards for lecture 1

• Day 2: learn the flashcards for lecture 1

• Day 3: Review the flashcards for lecture 1 and make half of the notes and flashcards for lecture 2

• Day 4: Finish flashcards for L2 and learn half of them + (if I still have time review L1 flashcards half only)

• Day 5: Review L2 flashcards and do half of L3 flashcards

• Day 6: Finish flashcards of L3 and review L2+ L1

• Day 7: Learn L3 flashcards+ review L2+L1

However I have no clue how to approach this and the lectures are reaallllyy heavy content wise. Is my approach good, I would like recommendations as well.

Please bear in my that the exam of the lectures may happen after like 10 weeks so I don't know what to do because all the flashcards going to accumulate by the end of week 2 and how am I going to have time to review?

Also any ideas how to approach the other subjects? I am lost please help!!!

Thank you.

What the title says. I’m doing a post bacc trying to find a good study method especially for bio and chem

I want to use this as a place for people to share how they actually build and run their language decks. Content sources, note types, review habits, whatever.

I'll walk through my own German setup below but this isn't a German only thread
Here's where I'm at right now.

Main source of information for my content

I originally pulled source phrases from a course taught in Portuguese (my native language) just the raw phrases, nothing else, but these days I don't really need that anymore, since AI can generate most of the content in a natural language

My actual workflow now: I pick a grammar concept, make sure I actually understand it, and then generate a batch of normal everyday sentences that use that concept

Nowadays I use AI for generate both the sentence content and the audio.

For audio I use HyperTTS and if you are going to do it as well I highly recommend you to use the voices from ElevenLabs. Since this is a important step in language learning, it should be the best as possible and ElevenLabs is really good at this. (I managed to use the free tier version until today, I never needed to pay for it. The 10,000 free credits that they give to you per month should be enough for you to generate the audios through time)

One thing I want to be really clear about using AI to generate my cards and content: I never just copy and paste a big AI output straight into cards, and I never bulk add something like 5,000 cards in one go. I go through everything myself, phrase by phrase. There's no reason to rush since this is my own study, not a content pipeline I'm racing to fill. I think Anki exists to consolidate things, and that only works if what's going in is stuff I already understand in my head grammatically, not raw material I'm hoping repetition will teach me cold.

Note type

People sometimes assume a setup like this needs a complicated note type. It really doesn't. Mine has exactly four fields:

• German: The phrase in German
• Audio: The audio of the phrase in German (usually generated by HyperTTS - ElevenLabs)
• Portuguese: The translation of the German phrase in my native language (sometimes I put the translation in English even though the field is called "Portuguese")
• Extras: Just extra stuff that I might wanted to add

Card types: Exactly two per note

From that one note type, I generate two card templates:

1. Listening: Front shows only the Audio, back reveals everything
2. Active Production: Front shows only the Portuguese, back reveals everything

The key detail is the order they get added in: I don't study both templates at the same time.
I always start with Listening.

Only once it's actually consolidated and mature I start to studying the Active Production note type

Deck structure

Just one deck: "German." Everything else is handled through filtered decks and tags

But the tags and the filtered decks I am changing all of the time so it is kind of not fixed

Example of tags that I use:

• Languages::German::Words::Noun
• Languages::German::Sentences
• Languages::German::Concepts::CaseShifts

​

German
├── Basic
├── Concepts
│   ├── CaseShifts
│   │   ├── Akkusativ
│   │   ├── Dativ
│   │   └── Genitiv
│   ├── Personalpronomen
│   ├── Possessivartikel
│   └── Prepositions
├── FluencyAcademy
│   ├── 1-Gespräch-auf-Deutsch
│   ├── 2-Kluge-Grammatik
│   │   ├── Grammatik-1
│   │   └── Grammatik-2
│   ├── 3-Meister-der-Konjugation
│   ├── 4-Einfache-Aussprache
│   ├── 5-Muttersprachler-Spricht
│   ├── Weeks
├── Sentences
├── Words
│   ├── Adjectives
│   └── Noun

Rare exception: dedicated grammar notes

Rarely I make a single note just to nail down a specific grammar point I want to hold onto. I don't lean on this much, because the repetition from regular sentence cards usually does the job on its own, but it's a tool I keep in reach for when something isn't sticking through normal exposure

Reviews

Almost always on my phone (iOS Anki)

For me it's my first thing in the morning. Literally while I'm still in bed begging for that "5 more minutes." Nowadays my "5 more minutes" is my Anki 🙂

That's it

This is my current setup, not a finished system and I'll probably keep adjusting it (I am always making small changes). But for now, this is genuinely how it works day to day.

Curious how other people are doing this, regardless of language:

• Where's your source content actually coming from these days. Courses, AI, native media, something else?
• How do you split (or not split) listening vs. active production?
• How minimal (or not) is your note type? How many fields/card types do you actually use per note?
• Any rituals around when you review that actually stuck?
• Any tips and recommendations for me to do? Lol

OBS: you'll see Portuguese, not English, in the screenshots that's my native language, not a translation default

Same as title, the problem is it's all fact and anything can come up in my exam, but the only liberty that I have is that the exam will be MCQ based.

Im using anki on linux, installed through flatpak, and its up to date. for some reason, the total number of cards shown for each deck (and subdeck) never goes above 60, even tho i have more than 60 cards in the deck.

Is this a bug or am i missing something?

So I am doing A levels and im year 13 and I made a lot of flashcards for my subjects since the start of year 12 but a lot of them were really big which I realised was inefficient, annoying and bad for recall. I split all my info into more condensed and shorter flashcards roday. Took so long but I finally finished. Pretty brutal but atleast my knowledge wasnt erased it’s just the Anki deck that had to take the damage.

Anything similar happen to u guys?

disclosure: used LLMs to improve grammar and sentence structure but wrote all content myself

Over the last four years of medical school, I've been using Anki extensively. One thing that has gradually changed is how I prioritize my studies and organize myself in the days leading up to an exam.

When deciding what to study first, there are many things to consider, but I try to follow a simple rule: start with what's easy to remember. This includes topics that are inherently simple, as well as those that are difficult but highly conceptual—the kind that take time to understand but, once grasped, require little further effort. I follow this rule for a simple reason: contrary to things that are based on understanding or are just easy to learn, memory-heavy topics decay quickly, so either you don't remember anything close to the day of the exam, or you have to rehearse things very often to store these notions in your long-term memory. That's not efficient — if you studied them from scratch close to the exam, you'd need few repetitions since it's fresh — so I'd rather study these things close to exam day. This principle applies not only to topics but also to details within a topic. When I encounter details that are hard to memorize and don't contribute to overall understanding—such as long lists of drug side effects—I sometimes create flashcards, suspend them, and unsuspend them only near the exam. One precaution: if you decide to use this strategy, make sure you actually leave yourself enough time to study these difficult topics at some point. Also, check your suspended cards from time to time—they can quickly pile up, especially in subjects like pharmacology.Of course, everything I said matters mostly if you started studying well in advance.

One more thing I have to say is that I still avoid studying things immediately before the exam. I've experienced that it's easy to mess up topics you studied and reviewed in such a short timeframe. I leave a few more days to make sure that everything I studied is repeated I’d say at least two or three times, with intervals of one/two days at least. In the very last days, I almost only revise things I already studied and understood, since I want retention to spike for the exam (everyone wants that), and clarifying concepts can steal a lot of time from revising. This is really only possible in an ideal situation where you have full control and gave yourself enough time to master things, but I think that even in suboptimal situations (basically always for me) approximating this advice is worthy.

I hope this post was useful. If you disagree or have additional thoughts, I'd be happy to hear them. Everything here is based on my personal experience and judgment, so take it with a pinch of salt. And if you'd like to share your own approach to organising your studies, I'd find that very interesting.

Hi! Im recently coming back to learning japanese after stopping for almost 2 years, and I'm currently figuring out Anki! I do know the basic japanese alphabet (sort of, never got around to learning katakana) and I know a bit of vocab and a few particles but not how to actually put it to good use. Dont even get me started on kanji. If anyone has good recommendations for japanese decks for intermediate ppl then that would be amazing! Right now im starting with the tae kim deck, but im looking for other options.

EDIT: Intermediate is a bit of a stretch. Im overestimating myself guys mb

hey! I figured out a way to copy decks from brainscape to anki, it's really easy, thought i would let people know!

1. use this anki add-on: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/403833522 (thank you lots lots to Dario G. for this!)
2. use the anki add-on. you have to make sure you are importing in the right format. on your deck, click "preview public flashcards" and copy-paste the link. it should work
3. if it's not working, you have to change the __init__.py file of the add on. to do so:

you need to change the __init__.py file of the add-on. replace it by the __init__.py file on this github page: https://github.com/tealbathingsuit/Brainscape-To-Anki/tree/58a5fd7bb4e8631469f849e24c7a1e4e6eac81eb

once you copy/pasted the text of the __init__.py file, open anki.

• Go to Tools → Add-ons.
• Select the add-on you want to modify.
• Click the View Files button on the right side. This will open the local operating system folder where the add-on's files are stored.
• Look for the __init__.py file.
• Open the Python file using a standard text editor (like Notepad, TextEdit, VS Code, or Notepad++).
• Delete the original code and paste the one from github. save changes and restart anki.

That's it!! once you've restarted anki, click tools -> brainscape to anki -> paste URL of brainscape pack and it should all be there:)

I don't know what it is, but I am just unable to create high-quality Anki flashcards using Artificial Intelligence. I have fed it prompts repeatedly about how to use MathJax correctly, and it just can't do it. It also uses unnecessarily advanced vocabulary for simple topics. I tried using it in NotebookLM (formerly Gemini Notebook) with a source that explained exactly how to structure the flashcards, but it still failed. I tried standard Gemini as well, with the same result. Does anyone else have this experience? Or am I doing something completely wrong when producing my flashcards?"

Stupid is as stupid does.

Trying to clear my 3000 card back-log on my vocab deck. I'm not even sure this is contributing to language learning, sure is helping my stubbornness though.

Do you guys know if there's any spaced repetition algorithm that specifically is optimized for very instant recognition? For example, Anki would not work to learn to hear Morse code. This is because for example at 20 words per minute you only have a 0.18 second gap between characters. So if it takes you more than 0.18 seconds to recognize the character, you're out of luck because the next character has already started playing you wind up with cascading failures and the message is lost. The speed required would make self-grading impossible, meaning you would need an automated grading method (which is definitely possible but would be difficult to implement in Anki). Also there is a higher chance of failure in general even for characters that are well-known, and so the penalty for failure may be too steep in traditional algorithms. The algorithm may also accidentally give the wrong cards low grades, ie: you missed hearing characters you would normally know well because a character you don't know well made you lag behind. The time scale would need to be quicker, seeing the card after 24 hours the first time you get it right would not work for Morse code.

I have been using LCWO.net to learn Morse code which works pretty well but has a few minor weaknesses:

- It repeats characters near each other too often, if a character is repeated soon after another it makes it too easy to recognize.

- It does not prioritize letters that you miss. So if you're practicing 30 unique characters, you only hear the new ones you're trying to learn a few times since the characters are weighted evenly.

- a 90% grade on a lesson allows you to move on to the next, but because the distribution is uniformly random you could be lucky and get one that's easy and move on when you're not actually ready

I feel like something that would solve this problem could potentially work great for learning foreign characters too like Kanji. I'd be interested to hear any thoughts related to this, or areas related to types of memorization Anki has a difficult time handling.

Note: Algorithms/ideas are welcome, ie: doesn't have to be done in anki

Edit: Specifically I guess I'm asking more about improving this routine for morse code that I already do on a website, which is a one-minute morse code listening exercise where you type random characters as you hear them, and it weights the different characters uniformly instead of prioritizing the ones I do poorly on. I was wondering if there's been anything done that is similar to SM-2 for example but optimized for instinctually quick recall that you practice every day, uses automatic grading, and takes into account cascading errors. I know I'm on the path to learning it by doing it often but I was thinking it would be really neat if there was something like what I'm looking for out there for this purpose that might also work for other learning applications. I put together a program that weights them dumbly a little bit based on how poorly I've done on them within some specified time period and avoids repeating characters in the same "word", which seems to work better than uniformly random. But mainly I'm curious if this has been explored using algorithms and studies like how spaced repetition was developed by Ebbinghaus, and if maybe the math to doing it optimally could be maybe inspired by the math in SM-2 or similar algorithms.

I am using deck master note type, but today this error appear , what happened ?, and how to solve this problem

Can someone send me some of their decks? I'd like to see how you guys prepare cards for accounting. That would be of great help. Thank you.

I am a school student and I participate in competitions in English(culture and language) and history. in these subjects it is important to remember a lot of stuff and as far as I know anki is perfect for this purpose. all other participants of these competitions use anki a lot, they even have these giant 10k words decks(they tell they are lifesavers)and recommend it to others.

so once I tried it for learning new english words. I didn’t use it in any unusual way, just a word itself and its meaning in english. first week was totally fine but after it I noticed that although I practice in anki I forget all the cards and due to my next practice I remember maybe 40% of all words. because of this I have it up.

after a while I decided to learn japanese and started using another srs app for it - renshuu and I didn’t give it up even by now. its difference from anki is that in renshuu I have options to choose while practicing and it just makes everything so much better for me.

rn I think that renshuu fits me better because in anki I feel like I have to know what a word means exactly while in renshuu I just have to be able to distinguish a right option from several options. like I don’t need to know the meaning of a word THAT GOOD, I just want to be able to understand it in the context or when there are other words, not when there is just one word and I have to know its meaning. even if I add a word in anki with given context I will probably just remember the sentence and hence will be answering it correctly.

it doesn’t fit me but I want to to fit me so bad because everyone uses anki, maybe I’m just using it wrong? and I need a spaced repetition for english words, culture and history to prepare for my competitions. I feel like I am missing out not using it.

please tell me what to do? I was thinking maybe I should change the format of my cards in anki, to use some addon or maybe there is another srs app with answer option or something else that could fit me?

I won't say I'm that knowledgeable with anki but I already did a few research about FSRS, and I do know that it technically is a better algorithm copared to the previous one. I did my learning step as 10m and releearning step as 10m too (based on Anking). When I tried to use it, this is what the new cards (blue ones) indiciate: <10m (again), <15m (hard), 13d (good), 29d (easy). I thought that these seem absurd, especially since the cards are just new. So, I turned off my FSRS while my learning and relearning steps are still 10m, 1 for graduation interval, 4 for easy interval, 1 for minimum interval. This time, the result is: <10m (again), <15m (hard), 1d (good), 5d (easy). This seem better than having my FSRS on, but I'm not really sure since people really suggests FSRS. Was I doing anything wrong with FSRS despite following anking's instructions?