carajillo VS ankicommunity-sync-server

I concur with all of these points. I've also written a bit about Anki and updating some of the default settings for better retention. [0] Making a good template for cards changes everything, particularly with adding context / usage sentences on the back of the card. Also, switching to using the native definitions once you can instead of the english translations helps immensely.

For me, I -hated- how long it took to input words into Anki, so for ~7 months I used Evita's Korean Deck which has about 5.5k words. I eventually burned out and got tired of the lack of context in the cards, but that helped me learn a lot of day-to-day vocabulary. I tried this a bit with a Japanese 2k deck but I think with logographic language it doesn't really work as well as slowly inputting words that you know the context/definition for.

Nowadays I write down words from books/movies/etc that I don't know in my journal, and every once in a while I collect those into a personal anki deck. I actually am working on a CLI program that helps automate the process of searching a word's definitions and creating a card. It outputs all of the selected definitions into a csv, which I can then bulk import into Anki. [0]

[0]: https://andrewzah.com/posts/2019/better-anki-usage-guide/

[1]: https://github.com/andrewzah/carajillo

No need for complex server setup

But if you are still above limits, then there is an open source Anki sync server code. You can run it on your PC and use it instead of Anki Web server: https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server

If you have a knowledge of programming, you may use this self host sync server. https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server

Question here. I have my Anki collection that I use on several machines (2 pcs and 1 phone). However, I would also like to have offline server for storing some flashcards on professional stuff I don't want shared on Anki servers (that could violate NDA agreements I am bound with). I've done some preliminary research and it seems like https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server could be used for creating private Anki server. However I'm not sure how to set it up properly so it won't interfere with my AnkiWeb setup. My guesses are either:

It already exists: https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server

Unfortunately, I reached this limit (with almost 1,8 million reviews and a couple hundred thousand cards), and Git Hub's alternative sync server seems not to work with IOS App. I'd willing to pay for more space, if I had this option.

Yes, maybe the Anki developers wouldn't want to provide syncing for someone that is just using AnkiDroid everywhere, but solutions like this exist: https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server