Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by daniels11 1272 days ago
I admit it's been a few years since I've dug really deep into Anki - you are right, I could probably fix the problems with the algorithm by tweaking the advanced options. Still, it'd be nice to have something that works out of the box.

Yes - I'm aware that Anki cards can include images and audio, and I've used those features extensively enough to know they are definitely lacking for my use case! Mostly, I'd like to make it easier to add the images and audio. The way I've done it in the past was googling for a stock image, downloading Forvo/Wiktionary audio files, and then dropping them into the Anki app. I'd appreciate an easier way to add these audio files and images when I add new vocabulary to my decks.

1 comments

Anki's editing tools are a really generic, and thus tricky to use, tool, agreed!

Like many other anki users, I've ended up writing code that generates my decks.

If you can think of a better UX for editing cards specific to what you're studying, implementing a tool that creates and edits cards outside of anki, and then using anki for the study part, will probably end up being less work in total.

If it's _only_ the editing part, that's solvable without having to rewrite the whole SRS system too.