AnkiApp Flashcards

This is basically a flash card system with the benefits of having technology grade your progress, push you to study the cards with lower pass rates, and remind you to study. It’s free and easy to use. It’s pretty nice being able to browse decks made by other people, but if you know how to make the most of this app, you can make decks that cater to your specific needs. For instance, though there’s many decks for studying other languages, I am making decks with only the most essential words to conversations in the languages i’m studying. It’s really about making the most of the technology we have.

This app is really great! I’m currently using it to get my insurance license. However, I would like there to be an option in the settings that allows you to choose to review in the same order you added the cards, or to shuffle the cards. For me personally, a lot of the terms and information in the insurance study material builds off off each other. So I can’t really move on to another term without first knowing the initial terms. The majority of the terms are all co-dependant, so to say. So having the option to first review in the sequence I entered the cards would really be a great help to start. I would also like the option to choose which cards to review. I love the feature that allows you to focus more on the cards you know the least. However, with so much material to learn, I break up the amount of information I enter into Anki on different days. So i’ll enter the first half of one chapter one day, and then the next the second day. So if I’ve already reviewed the first half of the chapter that i entered on the first day, i want to have the option to solely review the new cards i entered the next day. This would be a great help, as opposed to me making a new deck for each section of each chapter. This would help me to use my time more efficiently instead of wasting it on reviewing cards that i already know. Thank you so much!

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I love anki, I used to use the original anki but I said to give this one a try because it’s more user friendly. Nevertheless, one issue that irritates me, which by the way was pointed out by other users a while ago and apparently wasn’t fixed, is the syncing issues. I like to build my database constantly, add new cards every day, using different platforms. But when I’m adding a new card to one platform it does not appear on the other ones, and here’s the real issue, when you’re trying to update the out of sync database it overrides the new one with the old one. I lost the cards I’ve created and all the changes I’ve made during the last couple of days. This has to be fixed! Even for a free app this would not be acceptable, much less for a $25 app. An easy fix would be to have a warning message pop up asking you whether you want to upload or download the latest version of your deck, in case there’s an out of sync situation like I had.

It’s a nice app. I LOVE the night mode with black and purple! And I really like that you can add gifs, photos and enlarge the text. I’ve only had it for about 30 minuets, and my only problem so far is that when I enlarge the text it immediately shrinks back to small when I go to write on the backside. I’d really like it if the bold, underlined and even the enlargement of texts would stay on until I manually take it off. It’s a hassle to keep clicking on these buttons to type in every card. ALSO, when I enlarge or add any texting effects, then when I speak into my phone to say the word since I’m learning a language (and I don’t want to type out EVERYTHING in both languages) it immediately goes back to the smaller text. I’d really appreciate it if this was fixed. Thank You :)

I love how the app emphasizes studying on new cards or cards you have difficulty with, using spaced repetition. However, I also think there should be an option to do “randomized” reviews, so I don’t end up forgetting older cards or cards I have an A on. This can tend to happen since I end up not reviewing those cards frequently enough. Also, whenever I am looking in one of my deck groups, I’ll often pick one of the decks to study. When I’m done, I press “back” and it brings me to all of my decks instead of the deck group I was just in. I would rather that the “back” button take me to the deck group than the front page. By the way, I love how you can now change the layout of decks. It’s something I needed!