The BEST Anki Settings and Algorithm Explained (by an expert!)

[@AnKingMed]

Check below for the timecodes. Don't forget to like and leave a comment below with your thoughts! If you want individualized help with your settings, visit www.ankipalace.com/memberships 00:08 Why am I making this video (again)? 02:04 Get individualized help 02:40 Important Terms 03:40 Anki’s default settings and algorithm 05:30 My adjustments to Anki’s defaults settings 06:53 Answering learning cards 07:16 Answering graduated cards 08:47 How ease is affected by different answers 10:00 Relearning settings 12:30 Anki Mastery Course and Palace Butler Add-on (Automatically configure settings and install add-ons) 13:02 Where all the settings are located in Anki (Preferences and Options) 15:27 Preferences Basic Tab 17:20 Preferences Scheduling Tab 19:59 The KING of Study Timers Add-on (A Pomodoro style add-on) 10:41 Preferences Network Tab 21:18 Preferences Backups Tab 21:35 Options groups (Including “Set for All Subdecks”) 22:42 Options - Daily Limits 24:03 Options - New Cards 26:21 Options - Lapses 27:48 Options - Timer 28:27 Options - Burying 29:50 Options - Audio 30:02 Options - Advanced 34:47 Options - Display Order (for the v3 scheduler) 39:00 Straight Reward Add-on, stay out of Ease Hell 41:20 Anki Palace Butler Add-on

[@s9t.peppers]

bless your soul! I got the recent version and i was hella confused

[@emonymph6911]

Is there a way to auto add tags to a card based on what deck it is placed into? e.g. if I have two cards called [Data Structures] & [Algorithms], I want WHATEVER card dropped into it to automatically be tagged {foundations_compsci}. Then I can easily make a filter deck for foundations that covers MANY topics instead of one. Adding a long tag name like that for every card would suck balls. If this cannot be done is there a word around with maybe exporting the cards and re-importing them after adding the tags via excel or something? If you release a video on this please let me know when it's released I liked and subbed this video as well, thank you! The intended behaviour in my example would be to make the {foundations_compsci} DYNAMIC. So if it was put into the DECK then the tag is ADDED automatically but if I browse my cards and decide to move the card into another deck without a dynamic tag it should REMOVE the tag automatically as well from the deck. That would be heaven. If you have influence over Anki updates, please forward my suggestion to the developers. I'm sure you can see how valuable this would be. To clarify if the card itself had a STATIC tag {{data}} then the tag would travel with the card as it changes decks but the {foundations_compsci} tag would be deck specific and implemented/taken-away by the deck itself i.e. a GLOBAL TAG that MAPS to that DECK NAME.

[@abhishekbisht4399]

Thank you so much 4r this lovely explanation .

[@SK-ry5we]

if i purchased the master course can I still get individualized help? I'm trying to setup anki for my premed

[@christophersallurday8233]

Laughed so hard when you called the other channels who posted anki videos as influencers!! I found your video very helpful as a first year medical student! Glad the king has reclaimed the throne!

[@bandito2424]

Thank you for the explanation! I wish I’d watched this video right when it came out, would have saved me a lot of frustration with Anki this past year xD Also your passion for Anki is so infectious. My determination to maintain the streak this year has been renewed…

[@AnKingMed]

You can do it!!

[@dereknicolas7635]

@2:30 solid flex sir, I think we can all agree on the credibility of this man’s advice. 🙌

[@tonho91]

Daddy Nick Anking is here to save us from these bad med influencers ❤️

[@Waseemmmm]

Like Med School Insiders

[@pratyaksh2999]

00:00 🤖 Video contains the best Anki settings and algorithm explanations. 01:23 🛠 New versions of Anki and SuperMemo led to changes in settings. 03:12 🔄 During learning or relearning phases, Ease remains constant. 08:52 ⏰ Personalization matters - settings depend on your activities. 11:45 🔄 "Hard" buttons can decrease Ease, causing excessive load. 18:40 📅 Today - if a card is reviewed and rescheduled for tomorrow, it appears tomorrow. The start of "tomorrow" - at 00:00 or 1:00/2:00 AM - depends on settings. 19:08 🔄 Limit for future learning - if you review a card with a "90-minute limit," it reappears after 90 minutes, aiding quicker card refinement. 19:36 ⏲ Study time limit - a timer appearing after a study minute, applying the Pomodoro technique. However, the "Pomodoro" addon works better. 20:47 💾 Data synchronization - set proper sync settings for multiple devices and data preservation. 22:42 🎛 Card settings and regimen - recommendations for "New Cards per Day" and "Reviews per Day" settings vary based on personal needs and learning type (languages, medicine, etc.). 36:56 👨‍🏫 Tips for template-based card sorting, reviewing new cards, and review cards allow customization of Anki according to your needs. 37:38 🃏 Sequence of new card and review card repetition (new cards in review order) is a personal choice. Choose between displaying new cards after reviews or mixing them. 38:08 📅 Sorting cards by due date settings allow selecting order - overdue first, then random or increasing complexity (ascending ease). 39:17 🔄 Using the "Straight Reward" addon helps avoid "ease hell" and automatically increases ease for continuously repeating cards. 41:24 🛠 The "Anki Butler" addon enables quick Anki customization and automatically installs 50+ useful addons to enhance learning.

[@quickclicker]

I love this video, but you really did Prerak dirty in your intro. He's not just some "medfluencer". He has helped so many people get into med school (including me) and succeed in school with his videos. He is a good guy that cares about the community. He has also been quite frank about his mental health struggles. Not only that, but he also gave me invaluable anki knowledge about certain add-ons, which I use to this day. Dumping on him is a pretty low-blow on your end.

[@AnKingMed]

I just watched it again to make sure I didn't say anything as negative as you made it sound. I simply said that those people are primarily influencers and making videos about Anki because it's popular, but aren't necessarily experts on the topic. Prerak is an influencer and he does seem to be a good guy that cares. I'm glad his content has been helpful. I'll admit all of them make higher quality videos than I do. However, I still stand by my statement that I am far more expert in understanding Anki than he or any of the other influencers.

[@quickclicker]

@@AnKingMed Yeah that's fair. You also have helped me enormously in my life. I don't know where I would be without your help, so thank you. However, I don't think he's misleading anyone imo. If it worked for him and he wants to share from his experience, then doing so adds value to the medical education community and doesn't take away from it. I'm glad you made this video nevertheless, because this too adds value. I just found it unwarranted to do a "callout" as if you were "exposing" something nefarious, when imo it's not nefarious. Especially in his case, from my perspective, it doesn't seem like he cares about views at all or is trying to be trendy. He just wants to help, and he has. My two cents.

[@ShahsawarM]

Thanks for the video anking ! I was really scared of ease hell and never wanted my ease to reduce from 250%, appreciate your videos and the effort you put in. God bless you and may He guide us to the right path

[@bearsard_5101]

He ?

[@ekno0r]

@@bearsard_5101 it ?

[@aminoglycoside]

Suspending a card on leech does not make sense in medical school, but it is really useful in certain cases. For instance when learning a language, it makes sense to focus on quantity instead of dealing over and over again with a few select words

[@mydearriley]

Wouldn't those both be the same examples?

[@aminoglycoside]

@@mydearriley Depends on your med school! In my country we have oral exams where if you don't know something basic that the professor deems crucial, then you will fail the exam, even if you're otherwise very knowledgeable on other topics. So you can't suspend the flashcards that contain this kind of core information. Essentially you can't make up for a topic you're struggling with by knowing more about other stuff. There's a certain minimum you need to know about every published exam topic.

[@supakm]

I use suspending on leech to help prevent ease hell. I will just forget the word, let it go. Then I will remake the flash card at some point, with higher quality, multisensory memory, and learn them again. That way I can release part of the lowly optimized neural network(the original card that didn't fit into my brain) and give the word a new home on the network, in a more efficient position.

[@GestionLecavalierRuizInc]

Merci, c'est un vidéo très utile qui permet de constater un travail basé sur l'expérience et non sur une volonté d'influence. Vous avez ajouté plusieurs détails intéressants. Salutation du Québec.

[@ashmorris4067]

If there's anyone you wanna take advice from regarding anki this guy must be it

[@SuperMrgentleman]

An argument for a maximum interval would be based on how the fact that it would be a long while before you learn you have forgotten something. What are the odds that I forget a card Anki would send to 5 years, and what are the consequences if I have to recall that in 3 years only to discover I can't? Maybe it's "I don't care, and it's great if I do manage to recall it" but maybe it's also "gosh I might actually need to recall it in that interval and will be harmed". I think that determines the setting.

[@AnKingMed]

This is wisely put

[@pidevildog07]

Really thanks for this. I wish the creators would collaborate to make this app more user friendly and intuitive, I would GLADLY pay for it.

[@jiaojiao7756]

THANK YOU this is the ultimate anki guide people needs in 2021

[@sailorlance6340]

Question: at 10:04 you set your relearning steps to 10m, but at 27:02 you set them to 30m. Which do you prefer? Thank you!

[@dojeendojeenpour919]

I have the same question :(

[@keithbertschin1213]

I would love there to be a setting whereby, when i see a review card again after say 90days, i would then like to see that card again within the next week before i send it out to 90 days again. I feel this really helps solidify.

[@slicksalmon6948]

I need an ANKI deck that helps me remember how to use ANKI.

[@Burritosarebetterthantacos]

Im so confused, mine has none of these settings, the layout is different, and I dont even have a preferences tab??

[@stephaniasanchez-tarre3604]

you're out there doing God's work fr!!!

[@MedorraBlue]

I'm a Canadian med student, so we don't really have the USMLE Step exams - and I'm just about to start Clerkship. I could never get the hang of Anki in preclerkship... but I've decided that doing SOME flashcards is better than none at all. I reinstalled Anki and reinstalled the v11 deck, and I'm starting fresh. Better late than never, I suppose...?

[@someguyontheinternet4277]

are u still using it

[@s10blazzing]

Do you recommend burying cards to the next day instead of hitting again or hard when you have a ton of reviews to do and subsequently unburying after they're done?

[@massielcastillo5423]

What about for the MCAT? What should be the max interval in the advanced section?

[@wentimo6319]

Very helpful and intuitive, thanks a lot！

[@XMegaJuni]

Welcome back, also is the "automatically configure settings" download behind the paywall for the course or free to get?

[@AnKingMed]

The Butler Add-on which does that is part of the course.

[@XMegaJuni]

@@AnKingMed thank you for the reply!

[@amirrahimi212]

First person who doesn’t say bullshit about Anki

[@FISHINGWITHDRACO]

Thanks for this free educational information!!

[@___mango]

If you encounter the 7-8 days card again (08:00), and you press 'good', does the timer get multiplied again (to like 17-20 days) or does it stay 7-8? I just installed it this week. Thanks for your videos 🙂

[@riccardoarmellin1625]

Thanks for this video!

[@jasonvictor1798]

When is the hard modifier 1.5 in the relearning phase but 1.2 in the learning phase

[@hipojomadiere510]

Hi ! Thank you so much for your videos ! We love your simplicity. If you have the time one day, I would love to get your opinion on this problem : When we set a new due date on a card, it's counted it the review heatmap. So today, I had to reschedule more than 600 cards and my Review heatmap considered I have reviewed them. It's very annoying because it messes the stats. I end up having reviewed 600 cards today in 0 seconds.... which doesn't make any sense. I've searched for a solution but there's none yet. Kind regards

[@AnKingMed]

Unfortunately that’s just built into Anki at the moment so unless you coded an add-on to overwrite that function, there’s no easy way to fix that

[@hipojomadiere510]

@@AnKingMed Thank you for your answer Sir :)

[@SirPigasus]

Willl these settings be good for a level maths, physics and further maths. I use it in maths for definitions and memorising concepts

[@ShakthiMonkey]

Great video, I use the AnkButler add-on after subscribing to the Anki Mastery Course, some of the preferences you suggest here are a little different from the ones that the Anki Butler automatically configures. I know that each person's preferences should be to their own liking, but are your preferences different from the ones configured automatically by Anki Butler? When Anki Butler _does_ configure the settings, does it save those settings as a default options profile or as another named profile?

[@AnKingMed]

The Anki Palace Butler saves them to the default options grow up. I tried not to truly recommend any one set of settings in this video and more focus on explaining. The Anki Palace Butler changes the settings to roughly what we’d recommend for someone that is just starting out and you can tweak them from there!

[@ShakthiMonkey]

@@AnKingMed Great thank you!

[@NikitaBalilyi]

Hi, thank you so much for your video. I have a question regarding my deck that I've been using for a couple of years. The problem is, I tend to miss days and as a result, I have accumulated a lot of future reviews. It has now reached about 2000 reviews per day, which is overwhelming. Is there a way for me to manage this deck effectively? I know I won't be able to go through all of them, but I also don't want to start over from scratch

[@flavienmarco8477]

How the new ease cards are calculated ? Why we play hard button we have un new ease 235% ? Thank !

[@Tieg]

Before I commit to a 42 minute video, is any of this applicable if you are using the auto-ease factor and autoLapseNewInterval add ons?

[@AnKingMed]

Definitely. Understanding what those addons are actually doing is good. Many people rely on them but there’s really no evidence suggesting they’re ideal. It’s best you understand the tool you are manipulating

[@muneeb-khan]

Does anyone know if the straight reward add on works with the V3 scheduler? It's implied it does here but there's a bunch of comments on the ankiweb page that say it doesn't.

[@valaus2065]

Why don't I see "display order" in options? i have anki version ⁨2.1.60

[@neverever7821]

I'm new with anki so I'm having a hard time getting the point of it, so please forgive me if I am wrong. What I understood was, Anki is used as a reviewer for a long term? Like an exam in the next 6 months? How about if I want to use it for my quizzes the next week? Can I still use it? Because from what I saw, it will take 5 days for the question to go back. So it'll not be effective if that's the case? Please help me understand. Thanks!

[@sravyajayam9185]

Hello! I'm currently using these settings but I feel as if I'm spending too long on one card (>12.5 seconds) and hitting the again card too many times, which makes me think I need to see the cards more often. How do I adjust my settings so I'm retaining better?

[@LachlanVines]

I don't have a "Display Order" section showing up in my deck options in Anki for Mac. Any ideas how I can unlock this seemingly essential feature?

[@dazzerdazz3310]

Just wondering…. What settings is best for someone studying Physics at A levels or AP examinations?

[@AA-px1et]

Thanks for calling out the influencers who come nowhere near the experience you bring

[@kafge7798]

My preferances look nothing like yours. my version is 2.1.66 i couldnt find the basic and sheduling portion :(

[@garettjordan9420]

I noticed that when showing everyone's learning steps, you have "AnKing" settings and "Me" settings. What are your reasons for adding an extra step in your personal settings?

[@AnKingMed]

I think the other one might have been my language options or my test options. I actually use the AnKing options for most of my studies

[@polobank4409]

the straight reward add-on (says no configuration) doesn't work as settings+shift doesn't have the the rewards settings now.i installed anki 2022 in windows 10

[@xxxxxx-eb8kl]

In your previous settings relearning steps were 30m and 1d, now it's only 30m. Why so?

[@AnKingMed]

In this video I was trying to highlight that I don't really have one perfect set of settings. You can tweak it however you feel works best. I think my personal settings are currently 30m 2d

[@isittrueisitnot3303]

Which settings should I use if I have to study something for about 35 days?

[@MorulanVR]

extremely helpful thanks!!!!

[@annedominicajero3289]

thank god you made this TT

[@Momijie]

What I don't understand about interval is, say I again and it waits 1 minute, but I went off and did something for 5 minutes and come back and go to the next card, will it go to the same card I had just before? Or is it like an approximate 1 minute in the deck where it takes account of how long you take to do a card and shuffles that card at what it would think the 1 minute mark is?

[@nadiaaddasi]

I'm confused. What is the benefit of setting learning steps to 1 day? If you graduate a card with 2 goods on the default 1m/10m setting, doesn't it show the card again tomorrow anyway, since that is the graduating interval (1 day)?

[@AnKingMed]

The benefit is that if you mark the card as “again” tomorrow it won’t affect the ease because it’s still in learning

[@nadiaaddasi]

@@AnKingMed got it. That’s so smart!! I tried it and it’s been way more efficient! I’m usually a flake with anki but these tips have made the time I put in much more valuable. Especially your advice on how to use again vs good. I used to keep testing myself with “again” just to feel safe and it was a deterrent. Your method is helping me stay motivated so much. So thank you! If you don’t mind could I pick your brain on one thing - Im studying for step 1 and trying to cover as much ground as possible just to get a few quick passes in. Is there a way for me space it out even further so I see more new cards each time I study? I was thinking maybe space out learning at 25 min, 3 days and 3 weeks, and maybe easy for a few months so I don’t waste time. Do you any ideas on what might be appropriate? Thank you so much again!

[@AnKingMed]

You could but that might affect retention.. only way to know is to try

[@kimaudreymagan484]

Hi Anking, I noticed that at 10:56 in "Relearning Phase", the interval was multiplied to "1.5" I thought it was 1.2 because in "Graduated Phase" the interval (day) was multiplied to1.2 ( 7:59 )... I got confused cause where did the "1.5" come from? I tried to look for it in the options (advanced) and only found out the "hard interval" which is set to 1.2. --does anybody know? Thanks anyhow, thanks for all the things you and your friends have done to the community!

[@AnKingMed]

It's determined by the phase that the card is in. SInce it is relearning, it isn't considered a graduated card now and this the 1.5x is applied.

[@1rrrrrrrrrrr544f]

Best video ever ❤

[@cheekuxp]

Thank you so much bro ❤❤❤🙌

[@Sportybd]

Is the 90-95% correct goal total for all cards, just young / mature cards, or only mature?

[@douwevandermeulen430]

Hi, I've updated my deck to these settings but now something strange occurs. On a completely new deck I tagged 5 cards (out of 120 new cards) as wrong. Next day when i wanted to review them, 19 cards were tagged as wrong. I can't for the life of me figure out why that is. Any suggestions?

[@AmbitiousNoodle]

Are these the same with the new FSRS setting?

[@karimwilson144]

Great video! Never really understood the settings until now. Wanted to ask, do we have a rough estimate on when v11 of the Anking deck is expected to launch? Thank you

[@sergiiocheret2469]

Anki settings just for skillfull users

[@jared394]

@The AnKing are all of these settings / addons kosher with the ankihub addon? thanks!

[@Trucker_2_doctor]

I know you mentioned it in the video but according to ebbinghause forgetting curves, isn’t one of the most beneficial repetitions the same day? (For instance after 10 minutes like Anki’s standard settings suggest)

[@AnKingMed]

Yeah and I do that just by hitting again. But it’s not needed on everything depending on how youre studying and what you already know so I don’t like having to force that interval

[@arnold7stacevich]

Why i don't have Display order setting in my options. It's just doesn't there. Using last version of Anki 2.1.49.

[@AnKingMed]

You probably haven't enabled the V3 scheduler

[@arnold7stacevich]

@@AnKingMed Thank you!

[@Goku-zp3ub]

Are there any special settings when the exam is coming up and I want to complete all the cards within a specified time ?

[@AnKingMed]

How to Change Anki Settings Before a Test: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2ivcmWZlpJjb7c

[@castro7660]

hello from algeria

[@Wiz3742]

When you set learn ahead to 0, do you just keep revisiting anki throughout the day as the cards reappear again?

[@AnKingMed]

Yeah basically

[@Wiz3742]

@@AnKingMed how does that work for learning new cards? Is it still effective if i get a new card wrong and only see it again much later?

[@zahiessam3003]

Thank you bro

[@embyrio]

Great content keep it up 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@slowlybutshelly]

Does ‘graduated ‘ mean mature?

[@AnKingMed]

No. Graduated is once it has passed the “learning” stage. Mature is once its interval is greater than 21 days

[@jolololojo]

Does the straight reward Addon actually still work with the v3 scheduler? I found about of people saying that it's not functioning right anymore.

[@AnKingMed]

Not at the moment, but it should in the near future

[@azy3929]

Be careful folks, you may regreat copy paste her settings blindly. Give yourself practice without taking decks too serious before your end configurations. The ones that goes well with me are very different, im glad I didnt watch this as model for copy settings but as a guide to understand more properly how anki woks.

[@rusca8]

May I ask the totally unrelated question of "how did you manage to put fire and crown around your clock"? (I thought about adding the japanese kanji for the weekday as a nice customization, but didn't find a way of doing it)

[@AnKingMed]

I'm not sure what you mean?

[@rusca8]

@@AnKingMed You have a fire emoji at the left of the menu bar clock on your mac and a crown to the right. Is that something you customized?

[@AnKingMed]

@@rusca8 Yeah it is. It's the ItsyCal app

[@rusca8]

@@AnKingMed Thanks! I'l check it :) Btw. The V3 scheduler broke the Straight Reward addon, apparently.

[@AnKingMed]

Saw that. It’s been worked on

[@Deibi078]

the only king

[@juliosubia2226]

I have problems with leeches, the application does not mark them or suspend them and I have already set it to the minimum possible. Does anyone have the same issue ?

[@AnKingMed]

Are the setting you have chosen specified to that deck? Somtimes Anki will only apply it to the "default" deck or anther deck.

[@juliosubia2226]

@@AnKingMed It's a prefabricated deck, I think that's the problem 😥😥😥😥😥. It is the " a frequency dictionary of German deck".

[@juliosubia2226]

@@AnKingMed and i just realized that i don't have the Leech tags, and i have the last version.

[@CohRaymond]

Hi! I just started using the anki lightyear deck to study for my step 1 in 6 months. Is it okay to use your settings for this purpose, or do you suggest increasing the overall frequency I see cards?

[@AnKingMed]

I think the principles I explain in this video are exactly what I’d do for your situation

[@CohRaymond]

@@AnKingMed Thank you so much! I've avoided using anki just because it was so intimidating to navigate. Since I found your videos, its been much easier and makes me feel confident in using anki as a resource. I appreciate the time you put into all of this :)

[@AnKingMed]

@@CohRaymond I'm glad to hear that. I was once in your shoes (actually gave up on it when studying for the MCAT)

[@mohammedyousafzaman6374]

Bro my mdcat exam is in September so should I use these setting

[@jacobking2864]

Yeah these settings are still a good fit.

[@alekseiap5949]

Made the flash cards to learn how to configure Anki flash cards🙃

[@ardanaru]

how to undo an answer??

[@personanongrata6249]

I have a poor memory so I do 1m 1d and it works much better for me.

[@infinitebrian9178]

What are your thoughts on Conan Liu's recommended settings? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4nEe52YeLiLipI

[@AnKingMed]

I talk about that a bit in this video. I also once upon a time wrote a comparison article www.reddit.com/r/medicalschoolanki/comments/dkoiln/best_settings_for_med_school/

[@klausmaus1886]

this is a foolish question - I know you're basically just saying what works best for you, but is 25 mins not a relatively long time for something to come back after not knowing it the first time? I can imagine fairly often not wanting to wait 25 mins for a return, am I just misunderstanding/this is totally personal preference and doesn't really matter?

[@AnKingMed]

Totally reasonable to shorten it! I often do

[@klausmaus1886]

@@AnKingMed Thank you! one more question if you have time - when messing with the 'new interval' I don't quite get it - is it that it's what a card's time is multiplied by when I've got it wrong on review, so if it was gonna come back in 30 mins, a new interval of 0.2 would make the card come back in 0.2*30=6 mins, or 0.2*30+30=36 mins? Or neither of these...

[@arthurveras8597]

Does the Straight Reward addon work with the V3 scheduler?

[@AnKingMed]

I think so but I haven’t confirmed

[@arthurveras8597]

@@AnKingMed It does not, it's a known issue, just check it.

[@AnKingMed]

That’s good to know. What specifically isn’t working on it? I’ll add it to my list of add-on breaks

[@arthurveras8597]

@@AnKingMed The ease does not increase, no matter your streak, but you still get the notification of the ease reward.

[@AnKingMed]

Ah good to know. Have you reported the issue on GitHub?

[@ethanasbury2741]

41:23

[@memusko7918]

holy yap

[@amirrahimi212]

❤❤

[@Nxsai]

I bought the palace; now, where's the butler?

[@AnKingMed]

It’s in the mastery course!

[@bengalslash]

3d needs to be increased

[@Dr_Lucozade]

No heroes in the comments detailing the settings preventing us from having to watch a 45 min video...I guess the creator deletes them.

[@AnKingMed]

There are no perfect recommended settings. It's not something you can just copy and paste. This video goes over what the settings each mean so you can tailor it to you!

[@david203]

Too much talk. Just need how to change again/hard/good settings, please.

[@AnKingMed]

If you don’t take the time to understand how the algorithm works, Anki may cause you more harm than good.

[@david203]

@@AnKingMed You are welcome to your belief. I don't have to agree, especially as you gave no reason for your belief. I need to know how to change again/hard/good settings to try to make Anki work better for me. I'm an old guy and don't learn from fast repetition. I learn from a much slower repetition interval. I'll keep trying to find out how to do this elsewhere.

[@AnKingMed]

My reason is from years of personal experience and tutoring hundreds of people. You can’t change the buttons directly. Hard will always be 1.2 * current interval unless you adjust the hard interval to be something different than 1.2 (I wouldn’t recommend it) Good will always be ease * current interval. You can adjust the starting ease, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Easy is easy bonus (you can adjust) * ease* current interval. All of these are multiplied by the interval modifier which may be what you want to adjust. That will make all intervals longer or shorter. All of this is discussed in the video

[@david203]

@@AnKingMed Thank you for the information. I will increase the ratio of 1.2. You are so weird to take this so seriously. It's just learning, we all do it and we all do it a bit differently. It's not religion, just repetition intervals that empirically work for most people and don't work for me. Lighten up.

[@jacobking2864]

@@david203 No offense David but reading the comments it sounds like you took things too personal. All AnKing did was give his expert opinion. Tbh I read your comments as quite aggressive.

[@icysamurai1485]

These settings are phenomenal. Thank you very much I've been using these exact settings to learn 25 Korean vocabulary cards a day, and I am now at about 1000 cards. It works very well, and it only takes me a little over an hour each day to get through my reviews and new cards.

[@Badbooo123]

That's great could you share more? What deck do you use what experience did you have before starting this what else do you do what about grammar

[@Badbooo123]

@@icysamurai1485 thanks a lot for sharing that's an awesome way to go bout learning languages keep up the good work ... Would love a detailed vid sometime explaining all the process from a to z

[@ahmadal-saleh1539]

it's a very nice and detailed explanation thanks man! it'd be amazing if you could make a video on how to best approach language decks and how to maximize the efficiency of learning new vocabs

[@chasingsystems]

So when should you use the hard button? For cards you've seen already and gotten correct before but now are struggling with? I feel like improper use of the rating buttons contributes to my problems with Anki so some clarity would be great! Also - super solid content, really helps brings people into the software, thank you Anking!

[@AnKingMed]

I personally use it when I know the card but would like to see it more often

[@AslanTsentoroiev]

@@AnKingMed exactly like me, especially for some specialities that I know well like cardio, neuro, etc. Specialities that we have in France since the 4th year of med school (D2). I'm actually in 7th year (we call it ECNi in France) and the "hard" button helps me, notably, with more fresh specialities like dermatology, psychiatry, and more.

[@eagle_4448]

The best anki video I have ever watched. I now understand how Anki works in the background and how to set the best settings to learn permanently. Thank you a lot.

[@pastelshoal]

Question for you: you have the learning interval at 1m 25m. I find that my average review sessions rarely ever are more than 10 minutes as I do only 6 new cards a day. What do you recommend in this situation? I feel like reducing it to say, 1m 6m might help, but I also wonder if I should just increase my new card limit to avoid relying on short term memory too much when learning new cards

[@Doc_MMJan]

Nobody could've explained it better than the king himself.. Absolutely Amazing.

[@Deibi078]

hey dude I was just starting to learn English back in 2018 like in October, I wish I found your channel back then, but now I can take advantage of it and learn how to use Anki properly, God bless you

[@chaseedwards7024]

This was super helpful. I've been using Anki daily for about 3 weeks (language learning) and really enjoying it, but none of the other tutorials I had come across explained the details of Anki as well as this one. I've adjusted a few settings which should make Anki work even better for me; I now have a much better understanding of how Anki works behind the scenes. Thanks for this video.

[@harishkumar929]

Anking it would be so awesome if we could export the whole deck info into excel like to analyze how much time we used for all qn individual question,,how much review we need in average to solidify a content lot more and help to understand our brain and also how settings work for us...

[@nicolenunespessoa1543]

tem extensões com este recurso

[@KashifKhan17]

stats function on anki shows all of that and much more

[@nothin8902]

There's really too much effort put in to make such an explanatory video! Thank you so much!

[@drshaikfahadali7434]

I love you anking. I love you i need you i want you lmao ❤️❤️❤️ But thanks for giving out this content for FREE. It’s such a blessing to have people living and breathing like you in this world. IN THIS CRUEL ABUSIVE WORLD. People like you are hope. People like you are the light in the darkness. People like you are the something something. Also ya don’t get too prideful or narcissistic reading this comment you’re still a human and hence vulnerable. But ya i really appreciate it :) ❤️❤️❤️

[@T-London]

Hi, thanks for the video. I am on a Mac but there is nothing in preferences in the Anki app, is this the advanced version? I mainly want to be able to hide certain words when revising. thanks

[@ingonyamanengwenamabala9969]

what a bleeding amazing video!!!! I thank God I found it... I wuv you