[Research] I need your help to improve Anki

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Hey folks! I’m a designer working at AnkiHub (we maintain an add-on), and I’m currently running a UX research initiative aimed at contributing directly to Anki Desktop’s codebase and experience .
This research isn’t for another product, brand, or company — it’s for Anki itself .

We want to give back by proposing well-founded, user-driven improvements that could make the tool smoother, easier, and more intuitive. If the community supports the ideas, we’d love to even help implement them. <3

I keep seeing people say it’s the best tool out there for learning and memorization… but I also already got some negative opinions.

I’ve seen ppl talk about shared decks, Ankihub, syncing between devices, add-ons, formatting cards, etc… and I’d like to know how do you use those to study.

I bulleted the questions I wanted you to answer.. Can you help?

  • How did you set up Anki when you first started?
  • What helped make it actually work for you?
  • Have you faced any problems in syncing or using it across devices?

Thanks!!

This research it’s not for other product or any company. It is intended to improve Anki Desktop.

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I’ll answer this one:

  • I learned how to make cards more quickly from outside content I consumed. It used to take too much time before, now it’s much faster.
  • I became more comfortable with backlogs.
  • I started using prettify-anki from Pranav Deshai. The default templates were very unmotivating and don’t work really well when you have a lot of fields.
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Hi I’m an Add-ons developer.
There is a bit of a difference in demand between power users and beginners. Beginners want simple features, but power users want advanced features. In this AnkiForums power users and developers are the main users, so if you want to optimize for beginners you may want to do a survey in the Anki subreddit.

And there is already a lot of discussion, ideas, and survey on AnkiForums to make using Anki for desktop easier, so you may find some good ideas by checking the suggestions category, there are many good ideas and discussions but there is a lack of advanced developers. Suggestions - Anki Forums

You may already know it, the official Anki is in the process of migrating to Svelte, so I think major changes to the UI will be made after they are done. (but I don’t develop the desktop, so I don’t know exactly how progress it is.) Discussion: Anki's Svelte future

Though unrelated to the desktop, one of the big change recently is that Anki’s website is now open source. This allows developers to contribute. Since Ankihub is developing a sophisticated website with many images and animations, it might be helpful to the developers if you could provide some information. Discussion: Creation of new landing page Github: GitHub - ankitects/anki-landing-page

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