There are a couple of similar questions to this but my use case is more specific.
The question: can I create one anki user (one email address) and share it with multiple people IF I don’t really care about the repetition aspect of anki.
The reason I mention the spaced repetition thing is because I assume that it’s the interaction with cards (selecting easy, hard etc) and subsequent syncing of that that can cause issues for simultaneous users.
Context:
I have created some small decks that help my choir learn songs. A deck would be compiled of cards, the front of which is the audio intro to a section of music with the sheet music, and the back is the full audio section of that music.
I want all choir members to take advantage of this but the process of downloading anki to a computer and syncing it with anki web is going to be too much for many members. So I’d like to create one log-in and share it with multiple people.
The spaced repetition aspect is really not important here. Being able to access the learning audio in sections is the key. Essentially anki is a great template for this but the decks will be too small to care about the spaced repetition too much.
The main issue I foresee is someone marking a card as easy and it therefore disappears for another user, but perhaps there’s a deck setting I can change to stop that from happening (so all cards are available at all times).
In each type of note, you would have to have an HTML, CSS, and JS code so that only the student who had access to the deck could use it by entering a password
You would have to ask the AI to help you do this.
The problem is that anyone could delete the other’s deck (HTML, CSS, and JS wouldn’t solve this problem), unless each one had an addon that prohibited the deletion of decks (I don’t think there is one)
I understand your overall goal – I just don’t think you’re going to get anywhere less complicated by doing it the way you’re thinking.
It doesn’t matter whether you have one AnkiWeb account/profile, or everyone has their own AnkiWeb account/profile, they’ll still have to do that, won’t they? If you’re envisioning distributing the deck via syncing, you can’t skip that step.
It seems like it would be much easier to have each person use their own local install of Anki with the deck imported. So, a zero AnkiWeb accounts/profiles solution.
Thanks for your reply. I should have clarified that I envisage myself managing all the decks on this one ‘shared’ user.
So I’ll upload a set of decks for everyone to use to anki web, all the other people have to do is log in and look at cards.
I take your point about just using desktop anki but one of the main goals here is for people to be able to access the decks while on the move so it’s important they have mobile access.
You can simply upload your deck there and send the URL to your friends. They can then view your deck on any device, without having to install anything or create any accounts.
If you envision folks using AnkiWeb directly, that offers other complications –
There’s no Preview mode, so they can only see the cards in a study session.
To create the scheme you’re looking for – “all cards are available at all times” – your best bet would be to use a Filtered deck, but they can’t rebuild that on AnkiWeb.
‘Preview’ mode - is the ability to look at cards without having to interact with them i think. I kind of envisage just telling people to mark each card as Hard to move onto the next card. Again, the spaced repetition thing isn’t important here. As long as cards don’t get buried.
Given my deck will really be max 10 cards, why am i not able to simply adjust the deck settings, such as ‘New Cards - 20 / day’ to ensure all cards are available?
Perhaps the risk of someone mistakenly burying the cards by marking them as easy means this whole endeavour isn’t really feasible.
Anki has no field limitations, by default there are 2 fields for each type of note, but you can add as many as you want or you can create a type of note with several fields.
That could work – but only the first day for the first user. Then, depending on your learning steps and what grading buttons your “users” use, the cards will either be in Learn or Review. If the cards stay in Learn – that user will just keep cycling through them until they graduate them to Review (or the user just gives up?) – and they won’t be available again until the date they are scheduled again.
About the only way you could do this is to set a next learning step long enough (or maybe double-long enough, if the users will grade it Hard?) so that the current user will be “done” with the deck before the cards start coming back for their next step. But then no one else can use the deck until the cards come back again! [And you’d have to set up the deck with a ton of learning steps to make sure it didn’t advance.]
And let’s not overlook – how are you going to keep 2+ users from using the deck at the same time? If that happens, the best-case scenario I can imagine is that the users just don’t each get to see all of the cards – and worse scenarios, like lots of errors, or catastrophic failure seem in the realm of possibility.
This seems like a square-peg, round-hole situation, doesn’t it? If what you want is a dumbed-down flashcard app, where as many users as want to can grab the deck to study anytime, and it won’t remember anything about prior reviews or schedule the cards to be due later … isn’t that what 90% of the other flashcard apps do?! [The ones that aren’t trying to copycat Anki, anyway …] I’ve never in my life suggested Quizlet to anyone, but it seems the right hole for this peg.
I think i agree. I’m pursuing it because I’ve put together a python script to automate the generation of multiple decks for the section of the choir. Something it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to do for quizlet.
I’ll have to have a go at persuading people to download anki…