Hi All,
Thank you for being a contributing part of Anki! I’ve used Anki for the last two years of my undergrad degree and found it to work extremely well with my learning style. I’m headed to medical school and have some time between now and then and feel the need for a new passion project. I fully anticipate using Anki to get through med school and would like to use the time I have off to possible contribute with an Add-On that will increase my joy while using Anki for the next forever. I have coding experience, am not daunted by python, and would be doing this for my own funzies (unpaid). BUT I need your guys’ help with the solidification of my idea.
Right now, I find Anki’s homepage a bit bland (vanilla is some people’s jam, I get it, just not mine). I have the heatmap and the add-on that grants confetti when you finish a deck but I feel that I would be more inclined to review every day if I had some achievement added to the Anki home page for specific milestones. I figure the milestones could be as simple as the total number of reviews done/most reviews completed in a day/most decks reviewed in one day, etc, stuff that would be achieved given normal, consistent Anki usage.
As for the graphics of an achievment on the homepage I’m considering the following: a simple shelf background with trophies that appear and update for each achievement and their milestones, a background that updates with progressive acheivements (like a horizon where the sun rises a bit for every 1000 cards reviewed eventually revealing a pretty scene, or a city skyline where the buildings grow a bit with every milestone. I imagine once you unlock all stages of a background I could have a background UI selection somewhere in the menus to choose one as a stagnant background image), or–my most ambitious ideas-- a tomagochi-like pet that grows with every milestone achieved or a Hay Day/village like background where you unlock little sprites that walk around the homepage when you log in. I’m a digital artist so the art would be done by me, too.
None of these would appear when actually reviewing cards; that was the one thing I disliked about the Ankimon add-on was that it would distract me while actually reviewing. They would just be things that affect the appearance of the homepage to make me feel some sense of accomplishment outside of learning material.
So whatdya say, fellow Anki-ers? Do any of these sound more appealing/feasible than the others? Has this idea already been done and I’m wasting my time? Any ideas for milestones or graphics?Any response would be graciously appreciated, even if you’re just cussing me out in the replies for polluting the Add-On category with my pipe dreams.
I appreciate you taking the time to read this!
I really need to understand everything, otherwise I’ve read and done so. I’m just not going to criticize. After all, an add-on is something that enhances the functionality and appearance of a program. Since everyone is different, they’ll evaluate it later and I’ll say what’s needed.