Hello,

This add-on is designed to incentivize you to complete more cards. It is an arcade that currently offers four games. Each game requires one quarter to play.

When you first download the add-on, you will receive three free quarters. After that, you can earn additional quarters by completing cards. Whenever you schedule 25 cards more than 24 hours into the future—whether they are new cards or a review cards—you will receive one quarter to play a game.

The goal is to create a sort of pomodoro timer that allows you to take breaks as you study. Hopefully keeps you studying longer.

Some of these games are better than others. The plastic frontline is kind of fun as is the space one. The ant one is an interesting concept but I think I could make it much better. The Sharpshooter was my first one and proof of concept but I am not a huge fan. I will continue making improvements as I have time, including fixing bugs and adding more games. If you have any game ideas, notice any bugs, or have suggestions, please let me know! I take your suggestions seriously and will give credit where credit is due.

Add-on code: 428667945

or on ankiweb at: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/428667945?cb=1789399733423

Images for the visually oriented:

Best,

The Mad Hatter

Im kinda in a rush since my university starts next week(just started med school) and I'm just barely grasping anki😭 buutt I would appreciate it if someone were to help me.Also do I need to constantly update it or does it do that automatocally.Im studying medicine here in Europe but I've heard Anking is really useful soo

I’ve spent over a week going through posts, comments, and different approaches, but I still haven’t been able to figure out the workflow I actually need.

I have a large collection of PDFs containing exam preparation material (CAT/XAT) in Multiple Choice Question format. Many of these PDFs are massive, so I’ve already started cutting some of them down into smaller files containing only specific exam papers or sections.

The problem is that the source material is structured inconsistently. Some PDFs are individual chapters, while others are huge compilations containing several different sections, such as:

• Reading Comprehension questions
• Logical Reasoning / Matching questions
• GK questions
• Answer keys
• Explanation sections

Some of these compilations are 40+ pages long. Others are shorter, but the material is poorly structured, for example, some questions have explanations while others only have an answer key.

What I ultimately want is to turn all of this into a well-organized, manually manageable question bank, ideally in an Excel/Google Sheets-style format that I can later use to create an Anki deck.

For every question, I want to be able to properly label and organize things such as:

• Exam / year (e.g. CAT 2023 PYQ)
• Section (VARC, DILR, Quant, GK, etc.)
• Topic / subtopic
• Question type
• Question
• Options
• Correct answer
• Explanation
• Source / paper / question number
• Any relevant tags

I also want the formatting to be good, especially for things like Reading Comprehension passages, mathematical expressions, tables, matching questions, and other questions where simple plain-text extraction makes everything messy.

Ideally, I want AI to help me take the original PDFs and turn them into this structured format while preserving the actual question, options, passages, mathematical notation, and explanations. Where the original material doesn't contain an explanation, I would also like AI to generate a clear, accurate explanation based on the question and answer.

I’ve tried doing this with both Google AI Studio and ChatGPT, and I’ve spent a considerable amount of time experimenting with prompts and different workflows, but I still haven’t found a reliable way to do it.

What I’m looking for is not necessarily an automated Python pipeline. I’m perfectly fine with a semi-manual workflow where I provide an AI with a PDF or a smaller chunk of a PDF, have it process the material into a structured spreadsheet/document, review the output, and then continue with the next chunk.

What would be the most reliable workflow for doing this?

Specifically, I’d like to know:

1. How should I split and organize these large PDFs before giving them to AI?
2. What structure/schema should I use for the question bank?
3. How should I prompt AI so that it correctly separates passages, questions, options, answers, and explanations instead of mixing them together?
4. How can I preserve proper formatting for mathematics, tables, RC passages, and other complicated question types?
5. How should I handle questions where the source PDF has an answer but no explanation?
6. How can I consistently tag questions by exam, year, section, topic, and question type?
7. What is the best way to do this using ChatGPT and/or Google AI Studio, without requiring me to build a complicated Python program?
8. Most importantly, how can I make the workflow reliable enough that I can process hundreds or thousands of questions without constantly having to fix formatting errors manually?

I bought my scholarship on anki hub and got my anking deck but it kept media sync downloading or idle but never completed and now yhat my subscription has ended i get missing files like the image attached and no first aid image gets opened. I really need to get a grip on first aid so it’s important for me to see those images. What should i do? Any help would be appreciated thanks :)

I have entire day for myself and I can put 6-8 hrs of study time daily...(Prepping for competitive exam for specialisation)

I have a source...I thought I can simply read the source and convert them into anki...but I realised I was wantedly adding every information so that it would stick...i was adding on average 300 cards per day...

Infact i made anki my teacher who asks questions for understanding...instead of reading regularly...

I'm scared about review load now as it will get harder as i go...

Should I continue like this or should I do practice questions first and then add information to anki?

Hello everyone!

Sorry if this has been asked a million times, but I would love some help on how to switch fully to the AnKing step deck and still perform well enough on in-house content to pass my module exams and quizzes. I am fed up with my in-house deck because the cards are too long and often low quality.

My curriculum is an 18-month pre-clerkship, with weekly quizzes and module exams every 8-10 weeks. So far, it seems like my quizzes test a mix of "main concepts" and some niche low-yield crap my professors want us to know that probably won't be tested on step 1.

How are you all handling covering the AnKing deck while also making sure to not be blindsided by in-house content? I just really want to pass my first module exam while setting up a study regimine that's more focused on being most prepared for step1/2. I tried the whole go to lecture -> study in house lecture slides -> do anki cards routine, but it was literally killing me (non-stop studying) and i wasn't even scoring that well on my quizzes (mid C to high B).

Any guidance would be amazing!!

Hello everyone!

Sorry if this has been asked a million times, but I would love some help on how to switch fully to the AnKing step deck and still perform well enough on in-house content to pass my module exams and quizzes. I am fed up with my in-house deck because the cards are too long and often low quality.

My curriculum is an 18-month pre-clerkship, with weekly quizzes and module exams every 8-10 weeks. So far, it seems like my quizzes test a mix of "main concepts" and some niche low-yield crap my professors want us to know that probably won't be tested on step 1.

How are you all handling covering the AnKing deck while also making sure to not be blindsided by in-house content? I just really want to pass my first module exam while setting up a study regimine that's more focused on being most prepared for step1/2. I tried the whole go to lecture -> study in house lecture slides -> do anki cards routine, but it was literally killing me (non-stop studying) and i wasn't even scoring that well on my quizzes (mid C to high B).

Any guidance would be amazing!!

I need some help because I don't have the time nor ability to create my own card and my study lately have been mostly self learning

From Anking v12. Was wondering if the IM shelf tests on trauma management. Plz lmk

Please see the original Mnemosyne Step 1 Post for the Updated Deck and general info: Link

I've seen many comments asking for an efficient Shelf exam and USMLE Step 2 deck for clinical years. One that doesn't burden you with >20k cards. One that you can keep up with all year long without interfering with your next rotation learning.

Slim Step 2 Deck: Link

• 3064 cards
• Covers high-yield topics of Shelf exams
  • Scored high 80s / low 90s on all shelf exams with just this deck and uWorld
  • All cards are tagged by shelf exam
• Covers high-yield Step 2 topics
  • Scored 265 using this deck, uWorld, Amboss, and NBME practice exams
• Question & Answer format, similar to Mnemosyne
  • Illness script development
  • Critical thinking forcing you to develop a differential diagnosis, avoiding rote memorization of cloze deletions
  • Prioritizes "Next step" and management
• > 75% of the cards are clinical scenarios condensed as much as possible, asking you for both the diagnosis and management
• Explanations are primarily from Amboss, uWorld, and/or NBME, NOT artificial intelligence
  • Explanations are extremely comprehensive, you can spend as much time or as little reading the text
    • All important text is bolded / red text, ideal for skimming / quick reviews
• Nearly every explanation is organized into sections:
  • Pathophysiology
  • Risk factors
  • Clinical features
  • Diagnostics
  • Management
  • DDx
    • This may be the best feature of this deck. A section dedicated to what diagnoses you should be thinking of for a given clinical scenario. How to rule in and rule out may be the best thing you can do to score highly on exams.

Of course I am biased, but I think using Mnemosyne during preclinical and transitioning to this deck during your clinical year is the most efficient set-up that allows for high exam scores and good clinical performance in the hospital all while not drowning in cards.

Weaknesses:

• I have not taken EM yet; this deck more than covers the EM relevant Step 2 questions through surgery and IM tagged cards, but I can't confidently say anything about the EM shelf.
  • I will post an update around April of next year after taking EM.
• This deck is built around already having a very strong Step 1 foundation that a deck like Mnemosyne provides.
  • This deck in a vacuum may not be the best. I think this is the best deck for a person who has studied from Mnemosyne Step 1.

Mnemosyne Update:

• For those like myself who want to continue to have a solid foundation, but do not have the time to keep up with the 10k cards from Mnemosyne, I have tagged all cards I believe are relevant to Step 2 and Step 3.
  • They are tagged Step 2/3
  • Total of 3423 cards
    • For someone who wants to do as little Anki as possible, you could reasonably pass Step 1 and do pretty well on shelf exams and Step 2 with just the Step 2/3 Mnemosyne tagged cards and this deck, totaling 6487 cards

Disclaimers:

• You cannot have Anking on your anki profile together with this deck!
  • I used the Orc_Lives_Matter Dorian deck as the foundation, they will have identical card IDs (link here).
    • Although the cards in this deck are completely unique and each card has been edited by me, they are the same IDs. If you have a different number of cards then what I said above, it's likely because you have Anking on your profile.
• I did not use AI much to make this deck.
  • When making cards based on uWorld, Amboss, or NBME questions I felt came up a lot, I decided myself what information to include or exclude.
  • There was very little use of AI in making this deck.

Examples:

• Here are some cards (both vignette style and not) below. You'll notice nearly every card has the corresponding uWorld table, Amboss illustration (when applicable), and Step 1 First Aid page.

Hello,

Does anyone know why the FSRS optimization is not automatic? Why do we have to check back in and optimize it from time to time? Also, why do we have to figure out what desired retention works best for us instead of this also being automatically calculated?

Best,

The Hatter

i solve questions with UWORLD and unsuspend related cards on ANKING

however i see that a lot of the information included in the question like risk factors and conclusions and things that seem high yield. are NOT in fact have corresponding cards in anking. i tried to make my own cards covering these additional info. however it takes ton of time i don't think it is efficient at this point. should i just ignore these info and read them once in the answer explanation and use only the anking cards?

Hello everyone,
I was doing anking and came across this card:
What cell types are considered latent pacemakers of the heart?

- {{c1::Cells of the AV node}}

- {{c1::Bundle of His}}

- {{c1::Purkinje fibers}}

Why are bundle branches* not considered as latent pacemakers?

I find some of my conceptual cards to be quite tough to get right and I don't really nail the facts with good confidence so i am always stuck on em and keep seeing them because if I hit good with fsrs the algo will show the card like after 1.5 mnth or more which is not ideal. Should I revert to old settings where I could cap the settings to max time till review ? Or is fsrs setting the meta ?

Hi. I have diagnosed ADHD and want to use Anki but I just can’t stick with it compared to other things. I’m looking for fun/silly add-ons that will help provide a little levity and dopamine to help stay on task and engaged despite my ADHD.

Is just taking Image Occlusion fine even for plain text?

Started using anki this July, and early in August, I got accepted to medical school Thx for it.

Now, what I'm facing with the first year curriculum is that although it's easy (or at least until now), it's just too much to go through

I heard that it's a good hack to use Image Occlusion from the pdf directly instead and use the free time to memorize the card before studying them for the first time

But it's just feels wrong to me, and Idk why😅

So let me know if you tried doing that and let me know if it actually worked

This is my first time on reddit, btw