Anki is very ‘deliberate’ in it’s design and I cant make it do what I want.
I’m studying Korean from a book. Each chapter introduces grammar and a new set of words. Since my laptop is too clunky to drag everywhere and I want to study at will, my desire wants to lean on only AnkiDroid and my book, until the book is completed.
Here are my constraints:
-Must use AnkiDroid.
-Must create decks for each chapter in my book since AnkiDroid is so limited.
-Must allow me to progress through the entire book without needing to edit the deck on my PC.
-Must leverage the 1000-word deck somebody else made for this book. The cards are tagged with the chapter number and include media files.
-Must schedule cards randomly. Reviewing by order is like cheating because my brain uses the order to make the cards easier to remember.
I’ve investigated suspending, tags, filtered decks, sub-decks, ‘cloning’ decks but can’t get any of them to work. Editing 1000 cards each by hand is not practical.
This has got to be the clunkiest software ever but my flashcard set is Anki and I want to rely on the SRS.
Right now the closest I can come is to just suspend future chapters in my main deck and it will work fine, IF I only suspend each chapter at a time when I am ready to move to the next chapter. But that also means I can’t move to the next chapter when away from my desk. I have to stop if away from my PC (which is a lot) and wait until I can modify the deck on my PC at home. Getting through the entire book and AnkiDroid without ever returning to edit the deck at my PC is my biggest desire.
With one deck per chapter, I can ideally roll-back my learning and only review the cards up to that chapter if my memory is not reliable with past cards.
I hope this scenario isn’t too difficult to understand and possible for somebody to help me with.
Using version 2.1.63 on Windows.
thanks
For the creation and maintenance of more complex decks, the use of Anki for Desktop is recommended. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask them in the forum.
-Must allow me to progress through the entire book without needing to edit the deck on my PC.
I hope I am understanding your scenario correctly. My apologies if I am not. It would be easier to do this initial setup on a desktop, but then should be easy to manage on AnkiDroid after that.
-Must create decks for each chapter in my book since AnkiDroid is so limited.
-Must leverage the 1000-word deck somebody else made for this book. The cards are tagged with the chapter number and include media files.
If I were you, I would make each chapter it’s own deck. (Example names: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc.) This should be relatively easy to do if the 1000 card deck you are starting from has them properly tagged per chapter. Just filter by tag, select all, and right click > change deck. This would be the most labor intensive part of the process, as I don’t know how many chapters you are working with.
-Must schedule cards randomly. Reviewing by order is like cheating because my brain uses the order to make the cards easier to remember.
You can change the order with deck options > new cards > insertion order > random. This preset can be applied to all your Chapter decks. If you edit the default preset, you won’t have to manually choose this preset for each Chapter deck.
After you have a deck for each chapter, make one parent deck with a high max reviews/day count. Example name: Review Deck (I would use a different preset than your other decks)
Study each Chapter deck along with the book as you want. Then as you study each chapter and have moved on to the next one, you can rename it on AnkiDroid to be a child of the Review Deck. On PC, you just drag one deck to be a child of another, but on AnkiDroid you can achieve the same thing with renaming. Example: Review Deck::Chapter 1. This will keep all your chapters separate, but lets you be able to review all the chapters you’ve gone through by studying the parent Review Deck.
Again, apologies if this is confusing or if I’ve misunderstood what you were trying to accomplish.
aha, I think this actually made sense! Subdecks and moving cards between decks are unfamiliar to me but sounds like a reasonable approach. Time to make a bunch of test decks! (my book has 20 chapters so breaking each one out into it’s own deck doesn’t sound onerous)