Talk:Anki (software)

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Importing

Has anyone thought to extend this software to import from Wiktionary?

I've thought about it in a Mnemosyne context (from a programmatic perspective, it doesn't much matter whether you target Mnemosyne or Anki), but it'd be fairly hard. Wiktionary has a lot of variation in how its entries are formatted and I think any script would make lots of errors. But maybe I'm wrong and a script could work well enough on simpler Wiktionary entries. --Gwern (contribs) 21:06 12 January 2011 (GMT)

Usability

"As of mid-2008, it remains the most advanced, although in terms of usability it has been far surpassed by its open-source successors, Anki and Mnemosyne."

I believe that this statement smacks of a bias support of Anki and Mnemosyne.

It may smack, but it's still very true. Supermemo is infamously hard to use, as anyone who (like me) has used all three. And if you want to make a point of it, RSs agree about SM's usability; from the Wired article:

"From the business side of SuperMemo, Wozniak's priorities can sometimes look selfish. Janusz Murakowski, one of Wozniak's friends who worked as a manager at the company during its infancy, thinks that Wozniak's focus on his own learning has stunted the development of his invention. "Piotr writes this software for himself," says Murakowski, now a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Delaware. "The interface is just impossible." This is perhaps a bit unfair. SuperMemo comes in eight flavors, some of which were coded by licensees: SuperMemo for Windows, for Palm devices, for several cell phones, even an Internet version. It's true that Wozniak is no Steve Jobs, and his software has none of the viral friendliness of a casual game like Brain Age for Nintendo DS. Still, it can hardly be described as the world's most difficult program. After all, photographers can learn to produce the most arcane effects in Photoshop. Why shouldn't more people be able to master SuperMemo?"

Also I believe that it should be noted that Anki runs on an old Supermemo algorithm (SM-2, which was created in 1987). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.161.147.42 (talk) 14:32, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

True enough, but since mentioning that alone looks POV against Anki ('it uses obsolete ideas!'), we also should mention that Peter Bienstman (author of Mnemosyne) has said that the Mnemosyne statistics don't indicate any meaningful edge for the later SM algorithms. --Gwern (contribs) 21:06 12 January 2011 (GMT)

Mailing list statistics

I just deleted the following from the intro of the article (note that I intentionally broke the ref tag):

Anki's community of users is growing quite rapidly, as can be seen by the number of subscribers and the activity level on the mailing list.

Anki mailing list activity<refAnki mailing list statistics</ref>
Date	Subscribers	Messages/month
05/2008		230
12/2008		1160
03/2009		1708
04/2009	1236

This is absolutely too detailed a point to be in the intro of the article. I'm also concerned that this doesn't really demonstrate anything about the software, just about the Google mailing list for it. Is this salvageable somewhere in the body of the article? —C.Fred (talk) 16:06, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Free software

In the introduction,

"and Mnemosyne, a minimalist free software alternative."

makes it sound as though Anki is not free software (although it is). Maybe this fact could be more clearly stated in the introduction?

--laug (talk) 05:57, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I will change this Unnachamois (talk) 21:23, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Other interfaces to decks?

Can we talk about the other interfaces that you can use to study your deck created on Anki? For example the various mobile platforms (like the iPhone app) or the web site. --Boy.pockets (talk) 02:33, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. --Gwern (contribs) 20:58 12 January 2011 (GMT)

Custom fonts

For use with some languages, the inability to adjust the font seems to be a problem.

Is FONT not mentioned because other users / reviewers did not deem this to be an issue ?

Was it slated to be addressed in 2.0 ? In a later version ?

Is there an Anki client which DOES address font selection ?

CORRECTION :

http://ankisrs.net/docs/am-manual.html#_custom_fonts

I am yet to confirm this in practice.

G. Robert Shiplett 16:58, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello. This page is for discussing the Wikipedia article. You should ask for help with Anki in https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/ankisrs --AVRS (talk) 21:09, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I know that it is off-topic here, but the desktop client (both v1 and v2) _does_ allow you to adjust the font. According to the page that was linked by the original poster (which is the Iphone manual), these changes will carry forward to the Iphone client, provided that you upload the correct font to your phone. Bluap (talk) 23:34, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

AnkiDroid's GitHub

I'm a dummy who doesn't know how to change it, but the "Repository" for AnkiDroid is pointed at the wrong thing in the table here. It should point at: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android

--66.222.230.37 (talk) 05:56, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Corrected, thanks. The URL was taken from the Wikidata element connected to this article; I found in {{Infobox software}} the parameter name to specify the repository locally, and added it to the article. --AVRS (talk) 10:10, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Utility

This short section of one long sentence needs rewriting. I'd attempt it, but I'm new to Anki. E.g., does anyone actually use Anki to remember the faces of medical residents? Brec (talk) 15:54, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]