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Damien Elmes
Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. For example:
Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. For example:
- learning a language
- studying for medical and law exams
- memorizing people's names and faces
- brushing up on
What's New
Version 1.2.8:
- Fixed a bug where failing a card didn't reset its interval when per day scheduling was off.
- Set the type in answer box to use the same font as the field.
- Add Latvian translation, and updated other translations, thanks to the translators.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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| Downloads:3,934 |
| Version Downloads:1,060 |
| Type:Education : Teaching Tools |
| License:Free |
| Date:29 Jun 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. For example:
Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. For example:
- learning a language
- studying for medical and law exams
- memorizing people's names and faces
- brushing up on geography
- mastering long poems
- even practicing guitar chords!
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Virgeist reviewed on 21 Feb 2011
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Anki is a very powerful, cross-platform application and therefore bundles various heavy (in size) frameworks and libraries. If you take a look at Anki.app you see the following:
- Python 102 MB
- MPlayer 20MB
- Qt 63 MB
Approximately, this leaves 7 MB for Anki "itself". If these libraries were not used, there would be a less powerful and less cross-platform Anki or probably no Anki at all.
If a native OS X application had to bundle all of its frameworks and libraries (which are already contained in your OS X installation), I expect it to be quite large also. And still, it would not be cross-platform...
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ehd reviewed on 18 Jul 2010
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Talazem reviewed on 01 Mar 2010
If you want a light "flash-card" type program for occasional fun, or one-off study, then many of the others (many of which are also free or shareware) will suffice. But if you are looking for long-term learning and memory retention, look no further. Such programs are often used to study languages, but surprisingly some pieces of software can't correctly handle full unicode, or Right-to-Left languages (like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, etc.). Anki can handle all such "difficulties" easily.
I have been using this software for nearly a year on my Mac and my iPhone (through Cydia). The syncing is perfect, and the ability to enter my cards and set my own custom parameters for daily study on the computer, and then to study wherever I am using my iPhone, has been indispensable in my learning/review process.
The developer's support is legendary, and the forums have many, many dedicated and helpful people willing to lend a hand. Plugins have been developed that allow ever further customization. As I mentioned at the beginning of the review, the software is "deep" -- the ability to customize, of course, means there is a bit of a learning curve if you want full control. That being said, you can use it "straight out of the box" quite easily, especially for mere vocabulary memorization.
The software is released kindly by the developer as open source (though donations are accepted, and which he deserves). At the time of this review, he apparently is planning a native iPhone version which will be charged for (which, after the thousands of hours of his freely giving of his time, he also well deserves). If you are in the market for spaced repetition software--to learn languages, memorize long passages, or remember facts--you owe it to yourself to try Anki. There is definitely "shinier" flash card programs out there, that use all the bells and whistles of the Mac Cocoa visual experience. That being said, this is both functionally and aesthetically well-designed software, but most importantly the learning it facilitates is unsurpassed.
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Talazem rated on 20 Feb 2011