Is Anki down? I cant seem to sync my cards both in desktop and from my phone (ankidroid)?

I was wondering if any anki users have had success memorising numbers via a standard set of mnemonics. Eg you would first associate say, all numbers from 1-99 with particular images and then use for any number-related facts in future. The first moon landing was on 20/6/69, so you might picture the images for 20, 6 and 69 sitting together.

I know this is a standard technique of people who memorise decks of cards, just curious if it's helped anyone else out there in learning numeric info more generally. What kind of images do you find most helpful? Did you organise the images in a particular way, like 30-39 are celebrities, multiples of 5 are red things etc?

This post was inspired by me attempting to learn the birthdays of my friends/family, and finding that the dates all blur together. Thx

(I have just discovered the Major system, which is basically the same as I've set out above, but it associates each digit with a sound and generates words from that)

I set my review limit to 9999 like ppl said online, and I had 200 reviews and 10 new words, and I've been doing it for almost 4 hours now. ITS 3 AM!!! idk if I'm dumb, but even when I only have 100 reviews like I usually do, it still takes almost one and a half hours. Is this normal?

Very important! I started my anki collection on mobile and I’m getting a new phone so I need to synch it to web. How do I go about this without deleting my entire collection!

Is there an addon that saves the wrong answer you typed for a card?

I can see which cards I get wrong, but it'd help me understand why

Is it a copyright thing, like you need to buy a book for the n4 deck?

So I got anki to help with my classes and I downloaded the desktop version but it is so laggy to the point where its annoying me to use.

AffectionateWay29151:52 PM

Has anyone found a solution for the issue of not being able to scroll down in the side panel with ChatGPT open? It started recently for me and I've seen some others mention they've run into the same thing. It makes the add-on unuseable at the moment.

I mean if D even was 100% it should go down slowly but surely by 1-2% with each grade, since I feel the card is not difficult to recall and grade Good, shouldn't it?

and its not even like my FSRS params suggest high average difficulty. Median D is only 35%

I have FSRS, and im having an issue where the button will say ex good for 21 days, but the card will come back in like 10min. I check card info and it’ll still say 21 day interval, despite right now showing me the card same day again.

I have Javascript 150 lines, i just commented that JS, it do nothing, just exist in card
when I flip ard from front to back I have miro lag, that image dissapear and appear, that kill my nerv system T_T, any way to deal with it? maybe some caching

ReviewBar For Anki. Here is the link in case anyone is interested, it's free and opensource.

I see a dip but then it constantly rises. This seems strange to me. Can someone explain how to read this and/or what to do about it?

AI decks are bad because the AI writes the cards and the deck file in one shot. I split it in two.

Feed a lecture to ChatGPT and you get 400 cards from 40 slides, half of them restating a bullet. And you can't fix it — cards and .apkg come out of the same black box, so if three cards are wrong your options are "regenerate everything" or "edit inside Anki forever."

So I stopped the pipeline in the middle:

lecture.pptx  →  extracted.md  →  cards.json  →  deck.apkg
                 mechanical      AI writes it,   mechanical,
                                 you edit it     no AI at all

cards.json is just a readable list of every card. Read 18 cards in two minutes, fix the three that are wrong, rebuild. Rebuilding is instant and deterministic. That one split is 80% of why the output is usable.

The rules the AI has to follow. These are useful even if you never touch my code — most of them are why your AI cards feel off:

• One fact per card. Three lines means it's two cards.
• Write the sentence you'd want to be asked in eight months, not the fragment from the slide.
• Blank under ~60% of the sentence, and never something guessable from grammar. "a" vs "an" gives away more than you think.
• Anything answerable by elimination gets hidden together. "X, also known as ___" — seeing one name hands you the other. Both halves blank on the same card.
• Images go on the BACK. A picture on the front turns recall into recognition; you recognize the diagram and think you knew it. My note types have no front-image slot, so it can't be cheated.
• Skip the title, objectives, and acknowledgements slides. 40 slides = 60–120 cards, not 400.
• Grab the speaker notes. The best sentence on a slide is often the professor's note under it. Most tools throw them away.

Two Anki-specific things it gets right that most tools break:

• Re-importing updates your cards instead of duplicating them. Every note carries a stable hidden ID, so fixing a typo and rebuilding keeps your review history.
• Image filenames are hash-namespaced. Anki's media folder is one flat folder for your whole collection — a deck shipping image1.png silently overwrites an unrelated image1.png from a deck you downloaded two years ago.

Before it builds, a validator blocks cloze cards with no blank, blanks with no sentence left around them, missing images, duplicates, missing tags. Then it renders a preview page of every card, front and back, dark mode and phone width — so you look at the deck before importing it. ~98 tests open the finished .apkg and check it imports twice without duplicating, into a throwaway profile, never your real one.

Styling is deliberately boring: Arial 20px, centered, dark, blanks in light blue and not bold. No headers, no titles, no source line. A card is a sentence with a blank in it. I built a fancy design system twice and deleted it twice — but that's my taste, not a rule. It asks you at the start — light or dark, font, size, blank colour, whether the source line and answer divider show up — and writes your answers into the one stylesheet every card type shares.

It's one file, not a repo. Paste it into a fresh Claude Code or Codex session in an empty folder. It greets you, asks the style questions, then builds the whole thing — extractor, validator, packer, preview, tests, and a written reference on how Anki's format actually works. You watch every command it runs; nothing executes that you didn't see. That also means it's a long session and it isn't free.

Honest limits: it's not one-click — the authoring step runs inside Claude Code, you're driving it. You still have to read the cards; it's a good first draft, not a finished deck. Legacy .ppt needs LibreOffice. Occlusion coordinates are typed, not drawn. And because it's a prompt, two people won't get byte-identical systems — the design is fixed, the details vary.

What to expect. It builds a real codebase: a reference knowledge base it writes for itself, a document extractor, a card validator, a deck packer, a preview page, and a test suite. That is a long session and it is not free. You answer questions at the start, then it works. When it's done, you drop a lecture in a folder and go.

If you want it for yourself, here you go, just copy and paste the prompt into ClaudeCode and have it walk you through the setup!

https://anonpaste.com/l/d92890

(Edit: Replaced code block with prompt with a link to the same prompt)

Is there really a free way to make cards easily and for free with ai? I'm new to Anki and I want to learn how to make my own cards. Without wasting any time, if any of you know how or have the appropriate tool, and if it's possible to create it in APKG format Is it possible to create a model like this with ai?

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting on reddit. My problem: I am doing anki for a long time, except for 21 April 2026, which i didn't know how i missed that day, but yeah i genuinely miss that day.

But today morning i notice heatmap of my MATHEMATICS, and strangely it shows i have missed many days like you can see in image below

But i am certain that i didn't miss this many days. Thats why i check latest backup of anki. To do this safely, I created a separate Anki profile called TEST and imported the backup there.

Then i think that maybe i have accidently deleted/move cards. but when i search those cards which i review on missing days but not showing, i notice that there "deck" are different. see image below.

I noticed something strange: some of these cards have a deck path like:

1) Master Deck::2) MATHEMATICS::JEE::...

while other cards are under:

1) Master Deck::1) MATHEMATICS::JEE::...

The strange part is that I do not have a 2) MATHEMATICS deck.

It does not appear on my Decks screen, even after expanding/collapsing the decks, and I cannot find it normally. see image below.

If anyone knows what is happening or how I can safely fix it without losing review history, I'd really appreciate the help.

I have not modified my main profile while investigating this.

Anki version: Version ⁨24.11 
OS: Windows 11.

Hey, I have been learning a new language for a while and moved to the country where it is being spoken. I've been quite happy with my high retention, but honestly never thought too much about it. Just recently it occurred to me, that I may be wasting time by seeing notes I'm quite confident with too often.

The way I understand it, with FSRS I could set an intended retention and it would automatically calculate intervals accordingly? So that would potentially free up review time for some new cards? I'm currently at 50 new cards a day with around 350 reviews. I feel like I would benefit more from learning many new words as opposed to getting super firm on the ones I already know.

There's one potential caveat: I have a small javascript in my template, which changes the answer button I activate by swiping depending on how long it took me to swipe. So if I swipe really quickly it will mark the card as easy or if it takes me very long it will mark it as hard. I can override this by choosing the button (e.g. when I was distracted and that's why it took me so long). These are kinda conservative, so most cards are just good and I don't misuse hard to mean I got something almost right. I'm actually quite strict about being right (even when I misspelled a typed answer and I'm quite sure it was a typo I will often mark the card again). Will this negatively affect how well FSRS works for me?

I feel like one of the true victories with Anki flashcards is when I recognize a word is not worth prioritizing and I suspend the card.

The word that I'm retiring from rotation is "burumballa" which means lint or fluff, tiny scraps. I see it and expect it to mean something like hervidero or alboroto, and nope. It's lint.

What have others experienced here with retiring or suspending cards? What do you do? Part of me doesn't want to miss out on a good word, but I just feel like the juice ain't worth the squeeze in this instance.

I was following tutorial for using anki with yomitan, but they have translation on anki and I dont. Does anyone have any idea why?

Thanks!

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.