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An Education in Anki

Postby eplumb » Wed Sep 02, 2015 3:14 pm

I am really starting to want to learn more about Anki as I am creating all of my materials for Wolof from scratch and I was wondering if anyone had good suggestions for resources for becoming a better user. What I've found so far..

http://ankisrs.net/docs/manual.html#_the_basics

http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm

https://fluent-forever.com/create-bette ... ecJmPZViko

http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition

http://learnanylanguage.wikia.com/wiki/Subs2srs

Things I don't really understand still; image occlusion, incremental reading as well as add-ons in general
I was just wondering if anyone is holding some other useful bookmarks, especially for quickly integrating web content into cards
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Re: An Education in Anki

Postby samfrances » Wed Sep 02, 2015 3:39 pm

Gabriel Wyner's book Fluent Forever is pretty awesome as well.
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Re: An Education in Anki

Postby Evita » Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:04 pm

I think the Anki manual is pretty great, it should answer most of the questions. If something isn't explained there then you can ask it on the Anki support site.

About add-ons - they're small programs that you import into the main program and that cover some functionality that is not in the main program. For example, I use an add-on that lets me change card creation times.
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Re: An Education in Anki

Postby eplumb » Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:46 pm

Evita wrote:I think the Anki manual is pretty great, it should answer most of the questions. .


I am reading it at the moment, its very clear! I wish I had taken the time before creating decks without any understanding of the program. :oops:
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Re: An Education in Anki

Postby rdearman » Wed Sep 02, 2015 5:07 pm

eplumb wrote:I was just wondering if anyone is holding some other useful bookmarks, especially for quickly integrating web content into cards

You might want to try and extension called Ankifox if you use the firefox web-browser (If you don't, why wouldn't you?) which will quickly push web-content into anki cards. To quote the extension author:

Select some text, right-click and choose "Add to Anki". A new tab will open showing both Ankiweb and your dictionary of choice. For a better experience, it is highly recommended to use dictionaries that are formated for mobile viewing.The best approach to learning a new language is using it everyday, we all know that. That's how we learned our native language in the first place. So, one entertaining way of doing this is learning while reading, taking advantage of the fact that we spend a huge amount of time surfing the web.

Although there are some Firefox add-ons that allow language immersion, they are confusing and limiting. Instead of poorly translating single words or loose phrases from texts in your native language, it's far better to read texts in the language you're trying to learn, and then only to search those words that are difficult for you to understand and store them for later review using spaced repetition algorithms.

With Ankifox, adding words to Anki is like a breeze. You just need to select the word, right-click and choose "Add to anki". A new tab will open with both Ankiweb and your dictionary of choice.

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Re: An Education in Anki

Postby astromule » Wed Sep 02, 2015 8:08 pm

I've written a little about Anki on my journal: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=794
(from "CREATE A NEW ANKI DECK USING YOUR OLD TAGS"). I list there my favourite addons and some problems that I've encountered and how did I solve them.
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Re: An Education in Anki

Postby donJhon » Thu Sep 03, 2015 3:14 pm

Do you have the AwesomeTTS v1.4.1 plug-in installed in Anki? With that you can import audio from several sources including Google translate.

AwesomeTTS plug-in is AWESOME!

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/301952613

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Re: An Education in Anki

Postby eplumb » Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:10 pm

rdearman wrote:You might want to try and extension called Ankifox if you use the firefox web-browser (If you don't, why wouldn't you?)


I am sadly a Chrome-Magnon man, but I have found a perhaps inferior version called "AnkiAdder" which leaves me thinking more of snakes

It's just strange trying to bridge the gap between Piotr's description of Incremental Reading with SuperMemo
http://www.supermemo.com/help/read.htm
and Anki
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