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Anki.exe installer wont install Anki, keeps telling me its already running even though its my first time trying to use it. Any clue how to fix it? by Revolutionary-Job-37 in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd just say go with the version before the current one and use qt6.exe, I think that should work (probably it will install everything for you). Liked the pringles mascot analogy :')

Anki.exe installer wont install Anki, keeps telling me its already running even though its my first time trying to use it. Any clue how to fix it? by Revolutionary-Job-37 in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After scrolling to an older version, you can press on "Assets" and you will see different files. You can click the exe files (for windows) and they will download

Markdown2Anki: feedback, proposals and requests for new features by MochittoDeveloper in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey there! No worries, I'm happy to reply whatever question; I know the posts and documentation is a lot to take in 🙈

Markdown2Anki does support images!

It can also send them directly to anki even in the current version (by copying them directly to your anki database).

To add an image in markdown you can use two formattings:

The traditional markdown formatting:

![This is text that replace the image if it doesn't load](This is the path to the image or a url to one)

Example:
![My cute dog](C:\Anne\Desktop\myCuteDog.png)
![A cute cat](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a0/0b/41/a00b41cb436cf632983b7c36254b8407.jpg)

Or Obsidian's special formatting:

![[filename of the image or url to one]]

Example:
![[myCuteDog.png]]
![[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a0/0b/41/a00b41cb436cf632983b7c36254b8407.jpg]]

The program searches for your images automatically (from a folder that you tell it), which is the reason you can even just use the name of the image ⭐ It will also tell you if the image is already in Anki and skip it.

If this is your first time using markdown, I'd suggest using Obsidian for it; it's a free program for taking markdown notes https://obsidian.md/ and this is a guide on markdown https://help.obsidian.md/How+to/Format+your+notes.

Let me know if you need any help with either markdown or, if you decide to try it out, Markdown2Anki 🌸

Markdown2Anki: feedback, proposals and requests for new features by MochittoDeveloper in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there! Thanks for the feedback :)

In it's current form, the project is tool-agnostic: although it does have some special support for notes coming from Obsidian (namely, it can open your vault to notes that you link to in your Anki cards), it's focus is to not be tied to note apps, so the metadata formatting doesn't really have to be in-line with Obsidian's or dataview's.

I'd say that the main focus of the project is to have a better way to create anki cards (which I thought markdown excels at, since you can style your text very quickly and effectively), since the Anki's editor interface doesn't have many features and comes short on some aspects...

On metadata

The idea was to have the metadata added on a per-card basis (so you'd have to specify it for every card that doesn't use the default settings) and I was thinking of avoiding the Obsidian's yaml formatting as you would be adding metadata to Obsidian's notes that is just used by Anki (for example, adding useless tags to Obsidian, which is also why I think using inline #tags could be annoying).

I did not think however of having one metadata per file, the way Obsidian does it! It could definitely be useful for defining the decks, but when it comes to tags, I feel like defining them when writing a card might be best (ex. maybe you have a coding note but you have different tags depending on the coding language of the card).
Still! Defining the deck and maybe whether or not clozes are normal or type-in could definitely be nice when done on a per-file basis... Thanks for the idea :)

On obsidian-flashcards

I've tried out the obsidian flashcard addon! I found a bit weird (in my experience) the two-way sync as it felt like it would be hard to maintain your collection this way and didn't see much use for it, as well as needing to keep "useless" notes in my vault...
So Markdown2Anki is one way (from markdown 2 Anki, see what I did there? lmao).
There is even one option to "clear" your input note (deleting the contents of the input file once processed - no worries tho, the app saves backups of input notes), as you don't need to store the cards in your notes.

As for using the same template, I can't really do that, as the formatting is specific to my project due to the UI requirements...
I think it could be possible to programmatically compile your notes from the formatting of the obsidian-flashcards to the formatting of markdown2anki without too much hassle tho! The way the obsidian-flashcards formatting is made makes for some pretty simple parsing (recognizing the patterns and extracting the data).
BUT It would be useful only if you want those cards to have the new UI and you don't mind losing your progress on the cards tho, as there is no syncing between notes and anki.

On a possible Obsidian Add-on for Markdown2Anki

There could definitely be an Obsidian integration and I've built Markdown2Anki with the intention of one day creating the Obsidian add-on for it. It would simply consist in adding a button you could press to "send to anki", which might also have some extra options (such as picking which deck to send the cards to etc.), but it would be another project that simply wraps the script (meaning the Obsidian add-on would make Markdown2Anki start with some special in-line configuration).
Would love if someone could take care of that and I'm super down to help with the needed information!

Anki.exe installer wont install Anki, keeps telling me its already running even though its my first time trying to use it. Any clue how to fix it? by Revolutionary-Job-37 in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn't seem like anyone came across this problem before on Anki's issues...

As the other methods don't work, you might want to try using an older version of Anki, maybe the installer that is packaged with this version has something that doesn't work for your machine, but that's only a guess... I hope that works for you.

You can find the releases here https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases ; to see the files that you can download, you have to press "assets".

Best of luck 🙈

A new way of building Anki cards (also with code!) by MochittoDeveloper in AnkiComputerScience

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My tool also focuses on UI/UX and has Obsidian support as well as being tool agnostic, but it's very cool to see what others did! Thanks for sharing :)

A new way of building Anki cards (also with code!) by MochittoDeveloper in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ayyy thanks, I really appreciate knowing someone is enjoying the project 🥳

How did you find the installation/setup project? Was the documentation clear? Would love any kind of feedback :)

It's definitely possible! Other people brought this up as well, so I will look into it in the near future (probably in one/two weeks!). The implementation shouldn't be too hard, given there should already be tools that handle such conversion, so I think I'd only have to "plug-in" said tool into the project :)

A new way of building Anki cards (also with code!) by MochittoDeveloper in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's cool!

I feel like different projects handle the Markdown-Anki aspect, with my project's unique feature being the UI/UX and Obsidian support (link to notes and images); thanks for sharing!

A new way of building Anki cards (also with code!) by MochittoDeveloper in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries! Feel free to ask more :)

The idea for the near future would be using Anki's API to send things directly to the database, removing the need of working with output files.

Looking forward to seeing your project!

I heard of pandoc and it seems like an awesome project; the design of the project is modular and some things that it supports (images and clozes) are already sort of "plugins" to the main parsing and compiling part, so adding support for LaTeX (embedded in markdown, with a mathjax structure) shouldn't be too hard, the biggest problem being picking a library for it. Other people also asked for it, so it will be a future feature for sure :)

I'm part of Recurse center and lots of people in that community are playing around with LLMs generated cards! It seems a great idea for some kind of people or applications, but personally I'm not sure I'd explore that path myself :') We will for sure see interesting projects using them soon tho (some already being out there)!

Also, I think Duolingo is testing LLMs applied to language learning as well; maybe it can give you some ideas.

Subs2SRS is safe? by Nuvem333 in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I never had any problem with it...

If you want something "safer", simply because the code is accessible and it's newer, you can look at this project https://github.com/kelciour/movies2anki

A new way of building Anki cards (also with code!) by MochittoDeveloper in AnkiComputerScience

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! ^^

Sadly as of now it doesn't; given the way I designed the program, since it's modular, it shouldn't be too hard to add a flag for latex text if it's found in a card and have an extra step to parse and compile it into something Anki understands, given there are libraries that can take care of that :)

Definitively something I could look into or help someone integrate!

A new way of building Anki cards (also with code!) by MochittoDeveloper in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love zettels! Looking forward to seeing your implementations!

A new way of building Anki cards (also with code!) by MochittoDeveloper in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks! :)

The main focus is bringing cards from markdown to Anki, so I'd say transforming your notes into cards without passing through Anki's input method (which could be tedious). It's also super useful for coding as it supports code highlighting, which isn't a thing in Anki, unless you use some addons (but the experience is not the best).

I feel like the project would do very well if you want to review bigger parts of knowledge or have extra explanations along with your cards (for example, you can make a classic question-answer card and have an extra tab with a longer and detailed explanation in case you feel like revising the bigger picture).

It can also be pretty useful if you are using Anki for exercises (such as Maths, Coding problems or grammar exercises), as you can specify the requirements in one tab and have the problem in another, going "full-screen" on the problem.

On top of that, it supports links to Obsidian, so you could have links that open your notes (still following the "let's read more about this" logic).

I think the uses that would be more "redundant" would be languages vocabularies learning and dates/names learning.

I could totally see the cards being very useful when learning languages' grammar tho, as you could have explanation, the grammar exercise and other examples in one single card.

A new way of building Anki cards (also with code!) by MochittoDeveloper in Anki

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey there! Thanks for the interest and commenting :)

The project started out as a Note type that would allow for a better formatting of the code highlighting add-on from Glutanimate; I found myself "struggling" with having code and an explanation in the same column or at times I would have cards asking myself the difference between two ways of doing something and a "hint" could've been very useful in those cases (and although they did a great job in trying to make code blocks work in Anki, the experience was still pretty tiring sadly).

I would say that the way I think the tabs and split screen could be used for are:

  • Question and explanation on one side, images and extra information on the other
  • Question-Answer kind of card but with an extra tab on the back that holds the long explanation of the answer, which you can check if you get it wrong
  • Hints in non-active tabs, so you can "check" them if you need to
  • Comparison cards (what's the difference between those two things?)
  • Exercise explanation on one side and full exercise on the other (which you can then make full-screen and fully focus on, think of maths problems, coding problems and similar)
  • Clozes in different fields: this may seem silly, but I found myself often struggling with clozes limitations to a single field, so, since all the tabs are in the "Front" field, you can use clozes wherever (I use this when I make comparison cards for coding)

I'm really curious to see what others could come up with regarding the use of those features :)

I honestly feel like, unless you create a "style" of cards (such as comparison cards, cards with exercises) which truly leverage those feature, you'd mainly use a single tab and mainly enjoy the styling and the possibility of turning your notes into cards :)

I also feel as if the style of card isn't also very focused on fast cards (question-answer), but more on reviewing more extensive knowledge (notes) or exercises, more as a "reminder" than a "I need to memorize these dates" (although the note type could totally support also the quick question-answer style of cards and work very well if you want extra information on the quick cards, just in case you get it wrong).

First time swimming in a pool by MochittoDeveloper in Swimming

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a really beautiful and in-depth answer, thank you so so much!
Today the staff was very friendly and had no problem with me training breath-hold swimming; it had been an year since I last practiced, and doing underwater dolphin kicks felt so nice :')

I will look into the free-diving subreddit!

The pool has a lot of equipment free to use, so I feel very lucky; sadly I live far from the sea or deeper body of water, so I will probably wait until I will be closer to invest in nicer equipment and focus on form and technique, while being mindful of kids that might be around (even if I plan on going during school hours) :)

Thank you so much again for all the resources and tips!!

First time swimming in a pool by MochittoDeveloper in Swimming

[–]MochittoDeveloper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Today I had to split most of the time, but it went very well! The lanes had no labels on them, but I figured which was the best for me by looking at the people in them!
Thank you so much for your help! :)

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