Anki
Content-agnostic flash card software that supports audio, images, and videos via LaTeX.
What is Anki?
Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. For example:
learning a language studying for medical and law exams memorizing people's names and faces brushing up on geography mastering long poems even practicing guitar chords!
Anki cards are displayed like webpages, so can optionally style them with HTML, CSS and Javascript.
There are big communities, e.g. r/Anki, and you can share and download decks among the community.
You can select from hundreds of add-ons developed by the community to extend Anki beyond its core functionality.
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- Developed byDamien Elmes
- LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.2
- Alternatives172 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
- Arabic
- Belarusian
- Czech
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malayalam
- Oriya
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Chinese
- Spanish
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
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- 1,588 Forks
- 116 Open Issues
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Tags
- incremental-reading
- learning
- remember
- CSS / Stylesheets
- memorize
- memorization
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OBS: AnkiApp is not part of Anki (only AnkiWeb, AnkiMobile, AnkiDroid)
Open source. It let's me synch with my phone. It's free. Dosen't collect data.
LaTeX features do not work reliably in AnkiDroid (testing version 2.0.1)
LaTeX features require quite a bit of set up on Windows:
MiKTeX must be installed.
Test some LaTeX in Anki, for example make a card as follows:
Front: [$$]\epsilon_{klm}\epsilon_{krs}[/$$]
Back: [$$]\delta_{lr}\delta_{ms}-\delta_{ls}\delta_{mr}[/$$]
(It is worth noting that you can put [$$][/$$] in card formatting instead and combine fields into longer LaTeX equations.)
It will probably not work; this is because certain MiKTeX packages need to be installed and Anki will not show the install prompt.
I have seen multiple solutions online but this one worked for me and is probably most reliable:
Instead we will request the required packages from cmd.exe
Make a LeTeX document in LyX or similar and output a .dvi
Open a command prompt to the folder with the .dvi file and run: dvipng "name.dvi"
The required packages will now be installed in MiKTeX.
Test again in Anki, it should work immediately.
Note however that Anki is buggy software, I have had cards refuse to render while exact copies worked just fine.
Some of the LaTeX may also work when synced to AnkiDroid, in my case almost all of my formulas do not and I have so far been unable to find the cause.
(I am quite certain that .png files rendered by dvipng for Anki on Windows are NOT synced to ankiweb.net, rather the LaTeX code is synced. It is rendered separately by every platform.)
I do not recommend this software, use it only if you have to.
Unfortunately it does not have enough competition.
[Edited by Bitchomp, April 22]
Mnemosyne is much better in my opinion.
I don't need LaTeX, but the easiest workaround seems to be: Using screenshots of the formulas etc.
Reply written ago
Anki is a powerful and versatile tool for learning. But the learning curve is rather steep.
love that its open source and the way you say how hard it was and the hard ones get soner back
App UI modernisation needed
Great for learning on every device and OS