anki VS Anki-Android

This support landed late last year as part of https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases/tag/23.10

> .apkg imports are able to merge changed notetypes, and can exclude scheduling data

Anki is a great software, but unfortunately it is quite difficult to install on Linux systems. Almost all packages on major distros are by now years out of date or kicked out, because Anki changed its build systems so many times, that the existing package maintainers simply dropped it: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/1378

Nowadays, the Anki version in Ubuntu is from 2019! The snaps are also hopelessly outdated.

To anyone for which learning lots of names of things that you use semi-frequently is a bottleneck: you can use spaced repetition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition) to remember them way more easily. I use Anki (https://apps.ankiweb.net/), SuperMemo is another option (with other features, and lots of interesting articles on their website).

For example, I've been using it to remember shell commands and options. Now whenever I have to search for an option that I think will be useful in the future, for example `-M/--max-columns` for ripgrep, I put it in Anki (question: "Ripgrep: Search for 'clukay' and don't print columns longer than 200 bytes", answer: "rg -M/--max-columns 200 clukay"). Each day I review my cards (~5/10 minutes at most). I used to not be able to remember an option like that that I use once a week, but now I can.

For more info on how to use it effectively, I've found https://borretti.me/article/effective-spaced-repetition to be really helpful.

For people who don't want to follow the author down the unnecessarily deep rabbit holes about matrices and other things, but are interested in learning techniques, here is a wiki article on what spaced repetition is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

He said he uses this application to do spaced-repetition learning https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Besides, dae, the lead developer of Anki, helped me integrate FSRS into Anki. We have merged FSRS Optimizer into Anki's main branch. The beta package will be released in a few weeks.

Stable on AnkiMobile, available in the AnkiDroid 2.17 alpha:

* https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/releases/ (Parallel.A)

* OR: https://ankidroid.org/#alphaTesting

Yes, but on Android you currently have to sideload the 2.17 alpha from this page: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/releases

Good news again, AnkiDroid has completed its Rust backend update. FSRS will be supported in AnkiDroid in 2.17.

Get the latest PreRelease version from AnkiDroid GitHub → Releases → Assets → pick the .apk file that matches CPU instruction set for your device (arm64-v8a for most devices). Wanna check your phone CPU instruction set see this guide.

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