Anki: Recommended Settings
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- This video discusses all the settings in Anki and will help you understand how to tweak them for your individual studies
Watch our newer video on this topic: • The BEST Anki Settings...
UPDATE: We incorrectly explained the Minimum interval (on the lapses tab) in this video. Here is what the Anki manual says: Minimum interval allows you to apply a minimum limit to the above option. The default setting says that lapses should be reviewed one day later. The interval must be 1 day or more.
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00:53 New Cards tab
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03:57 Lapses tab
05:29 General tab
06:01 Anki Preferences
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Awesome video! One thing: When I changed my "new cards per day" to 9000+, I found that trying to review what I did the day before means that every other card is new, and if I hit again or good on too many of them, the reviewed cards get pushed way back in priority and I have to get through countless new cards to review old ones?
HELP PLEASE! i already my card, I am trying to review my card, now anki give me 3 options, easy-- good-- and hard. the problem is the easy is 16 days away, the good is 10 days away. how can i change that. i want to review my cards again every 3 or 4 days after they learned not 16 days. please help.
@TheScrubbybear
This was so good. Finally someone who could explain it concisely and understandably
Really helpful. Wish I'd found this years ago! Thanks so much.
Crazy helpful. I used Anki for all of preclinical just using other people's settings/blindly messing around with the deck settings but now that I'm studying for shelves I need to kick it into high gear (thousands of cards in 3 weeks?? no problem!!) Thanks!
super helpful for getting into ankis intimidating user interface, tysmmm
Thank you very much for this. For those using Anki mobile app, all these setting are easily available! Cheers!
Good one. Keep posting more videos on Anki. Your videos are highly useful.
Will do! We're glad you enjoy them. Please share!
This was so helpful, thank you for doing this!
I just came across your channel, love what you doing! I started using ANKI this semester and am finding it so helpful for my studies but was looking for a channel like yours to work out the program a bit better. Subscribed
GiftoftheGab we are so glad you find it helpful! And thank you for subscribing! :)
Curious: Do you actually ever refer to the stats or settings page (after setting to AnKing's / Zach's recommended of course)? I've been using Anki for some time and I've never used those two pages.. am I missing out on something?
Thank you so much, so helpful.
This is amazing. Thank you very much.
I'm a research scientist and not in medicine in any capacity, but I find your channel fascinating. So much so that I've downloaded all your videos as a resource because I think your approach is something all fields could learn a considerable amount from. The time and dedication you and your community put into these videos and the various Anki decks is really admirable, particularly because so much of this information has been released free of charge.
So thank you and your community very much. Every college and university should have someone like you for each of their fields of study. I've shown your channel to doctors I know who are GPs, some are specialists, and I wish I could have shown you a clip of their mind-blown responses to this high quality work. This channel/community is really something special.
Brilliant, thank you so much!! After 10 years of using Anki (on and off, but everyday now), I finally understand what all the settings mean :)
10 years? What's your profession
Curious: Do you actually ever refer to the stats or settings page (after setting to AnKing's / Zach's recommended of course)? I've been using Anki for some time and I've never used those two pages.. am I missing out on something?
@@TheScrubbybear I knew about the setting and tried to play with them but didn't really understand what some of them really meant, let alone correctly set them.
thanks so much for this!!
Great video. Thanks very much.
Going to give these settings a try and tweak as needed. These seem like some solid settings, so ty for sharing! 😊
kay luh you’re welcome! Hope you like them :)
Curious: Do you actually ever refer to the stats or settings page (after setting to AnKing's / Zach's recommended of course)? I've been using Anki for some time and I've never used those two pages.. am I missing out on something?
Super helpful! Thanks!
Appreciate this. Thank you!
You are very welcome, good luck with everything and please consider checking our patreon page out at www.patreon.com/AnKingMed
Love it! Awesome!
so helpful for med school. thank you!
Glad you like them! Please share our channel with your class and other med school friends!
Thanks. These settings really changed my Anki game. Will report how well it worked in a couple of weeks.. but already it's making my huge decks manageable.
Glad they’re helping! :)
Curious: Do you actually ever refer to the stats or settings page (after setting to AnKing's / Zach's recommended of course)? I've been using Anki for some time and I've never used those two pages.. am I missing out on something?
Amazing! Thanks soooooo much for this incredible video! Appreciated!
jovan nephrology no problem! I’m glad you liked it! :)
Thank you :)
U made my day
Bless you ❤️
short clear helpful
exactly what I needed
thank you
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awesome! Thank you for your support!
thanks
this is really helpful! i've been using anki for my masters of physical therapy program fo the past year, wish i found out about these settings earlier!
Glad you like it! :)
With my Chinese deck settings, I have the steps for the new cards set at 1min, 1day, 3days with a graduating interval of 6 days. Does that mean no matter how many times I click again before it graduates, the ease doesn’t change? Also, once I get a card wrong and it goes into the lapses steps, should I make those the same as the steps for the new card? currently I have just left it as the defult settings, of 10.. but I don’t understand because the good interval remains 1day, it’s the again interval that gets changed to 10.
I´ve learned a lot even with apparently horrible settings. Hope my mind won´t explode now after changing them...
Hi, your videos are really helpfull :)
I have one question though.
I do my new cards and for example I have a limit of 50 new cards per day, and finish the 50 cards. And then when I add cards they jump into new cards even though I've already reached my daily limit. Is there a way of turning that off. So that the recently added cards don't show up in the new card tab. I'd rather not see the cards I make the same day I made them, but the following day instead.
I hope I explained my problem properly.
Thanks :)
I love you
Hello, good work. I'm a bit confused about interval. I read free pdf book Anki101_v3 and settings are different: Steps 15 - 1440 - 4320 Graduating Interval: 7days Easy interval: 10 days Starting ease: 130%.
I'd like to study new cards at least two time in a days and then after 1 days... What do you think about this setup: Steps 15 - 25 - 1440 - 4320 but with 4320 in the Graduating Interval in your opinion how many days I need to input 3 or 7 ?
Another question about "Starting Ease" in your book you suggest 130%, here 250%. Which is the best ? thanks in advance
I have a question. When moving cards from one previous deck to say another deck, does the ease/intervals change? Ive noticed sometimes when i move cards from one of my decks for a block, into a new deck for another, that the good button states my future interval is to 6 months (max interval is 6 months like in your video). Is there a reason for this and fix this?
Hey, your channel is an amazing resource! Thanks for all that you do.
I was wondering what you would recommend in a situation where you need to unsuspend more new cards than you have set to do within that day? I don't want to get overwhelmed with reviews, but I get the sense that I'm seeing more material (in B&B for example) than I have the time for in the cards. So, my new cards keep piling up.
For example, I'll watch enough video that I open up 150 cards, but I'm trying not to learn too many new cards per day.
Thanks again!
There's a lot of ways to do this and it depends on your schedule. I usually add about 200 cards on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and don't add new cards the rest of the week because that works with my schedule. There's not a great answer other than try to space things out as best as possible, but it can be difficult with classes and required activities
Are theese settings still applicable with the 2.1 new scheduler? I seem to have 4 answer buttons on new cards nowadays - so wondering how to manage that in the new cards tab?
I really think anki should make videos in detailed way, along with the manual with various good examples in a simple way... manual should also have screenshots embedded...this is just a request from anki new user. Anki is really helpful for everyone with spaced repitition but should be more user friendly...thanks anki founders
yea anki users making instructions for folks who know the basics. all i want to do is copy and paste a screenshot as the answer without saving an image.
Hi really helpful
What if my corse is like only 4 weeks long and proceeded directly by an exam?
What is the recommended settings for such a situation
Do I need to change the subdecks settings as well or leave them as default?
I'm very confused about the learn ahead limit towards the end of the video. I would appreciate any help/ further explanation!!
Which is the conditions for two or more cards to classify as "related" for anki?
Have you updated this video in also about a
Question: I changed my "Step (in minutes)" settings to "25 1440." The next day, I have 50 red cards which are all my second-step, but anki wont let me do them until I finish my dialy reviews (green cards). How can I make it so that I can do my second-step cards before the rest of my reviews?
hi, a few times after using a certain card, I started only seeing the again button and good button. I dont see the easy hutton. How can I change that? and the again button is
Hey thank you very much for the helpful video ! I’ve seen that you had a Chinese setting I’m guessing you’re trying to learn some Chinese characters, so am I, unfortunately I haven’t found any good information online about how to use anki in the most efficient way to learn characters or Chinese instead the topics are more often centered around medicine exam or close deletion cards. So I was wondering if you could explain your settings for Chinese or do a video on how to best use anki when trying to learn characters. Thanks in advance,
Keep up the good work !
Definitely. Truth is I'm not actually using Anki to memorize the characters and strokes at the moment because I can already read and speak pretty fluently. I've just been using it to memorize some medical vocabulary. I would recommend searching anki tricks for studying Japanese, because the community is much larger and much of the same principles will apply to Chinese!
Med Shamim recommends clicking good the first time you see a new cards with his settings. Do you recommend the same thing based on these settings?
Thanks for the awesome videos!
No because my settings are set up different
Hi there, firstly thank you very much for your videos :)
Second, I know this is the wrong video but I couldn't find the video where you did mention this, so I apologize for posting here- but my question is, I think in one of your videos you talked about a settings option somewhere where you could make cards show up by or on a certain date. You mentioned this was especially necessary for something like MCAT studying where your entire period of studying is only like 3 months (so if a card is scheduled to show up 4 months later, that's no good) vs if you're doing med school studying where you intend to keep reviewing these cards for a couple years. Could you either direct me to that video or talk here about that option/how to do it?
Thank you!
Rememorize add on video
hi, is there a way you can adjust the settings to the date of your exam. like when i have my exam on 27 September, I want to know all the cards and repetitions done
does anybody know why in Anki there is much less time given for bigger amount of question? thanks for the answer
I've resigned myself to never understanding anki settings... some titles make sense but others not so much that I'd dare fiddle with them 😅.
hello! i applied your recommended settings and i'm experiencing a slight problem. whenever i click again, i don't actually see the card later :( i'm surprised that my study sessions end so quickly, since the cards i press "again" on don't come back. please help!! thank u
After max interval, are our cards considered brand new again...?
Or will the intervals (when we do the card after max interval) after that be specially calculated using our total performance history of the card...?
hey man great video! like your stuff a lot!!!
therse an issue i was looking an answer to and is using anki when u have a limited time until the exam and you want to make sure you review and learn most efficently in that time all the deck few times.
kind of a retrospective planing. what would you suggest to do? is it possible?
Check out my video on "self load balancing." I'd recommend using the rememorize add-on and manually rescheduling cards to right before your exam (I've got a video on that add-on as well)
i did not understand the "learn ahead time" option
how can i benefit from it
Hey guys, what about the hard interval that has appeared on the updates? Any advice on that setting?
Hey Anking, I have a problem that is really bugging me and I've searched every where and can't find a solution. I have a deck that I previously did but stopped doing and have recently tried to catch up with it over the summer. I'm sure many of the cards are in the graduating state and if I get that card wrong, it will go back to 1 day interval which is fine. The problem I have is that after I start relearning the card again and go through lets say 3 passes, it will reset to 1 day interval again and then the next day it will go to like 2 day interval instead of just continuing on my relearning intervals I was at. I don't understand why and it is really screwing me up because my cards are building up. I just wanna know what setting I may have screwed up. thanks.
Hi. If I want to study ALL cards I made per topic in a day and then repeat them after 3 days maybe, what settings should I change?
Can you make an update on this video for the new version of anki? I have your setting but for some reason when I hit good for the second time of a new card, the good will still show the card in the next day for one day.
Found your channel today! Great work!!
I have a question: I am preparing for step 2. I have 1.5 months left. I want to do around 3000 cards in the time I have. What are your recommendations in regards of anki settings and in general. TIA
I would still recommend the same settings :)
@@AnKingMed What about doing 1500 cards for an exam in 3 weeks?
@@floroberg That seems pretty reasonable. Use our recommended settings and add about 500-700 cards/week.
The AnKing Thanks for the reply! I am still relatively new to Anki and I was using the deadline2 add on to see all my cards 1 week before my exam. How would this interferes with the 9999 cards/day idea that Anki wants me to do? Also I’m a bit confused what you mean by adding 500-700 cards/week?
@The AnKing Again appreciate your help! I noticed while doing my cards that some of them have my again button and good button with the same 25min interval? Before with my previous settings it used to be 15min for again and 1 day for good for almost all of them
Would you use the same Options Group setting for sub-groups decks as the superordinate deck?
99% of the time yes!
Hey man I tried your settings on Zanki, now I have new 543 cards to do today, is that a reasonable number?
That's about what I was averaging when I was in school so yeah!
@@AnKingMed That's insane man.
Hi! Had a quick question. For the lapse setting, I did what you did on the video, 30 1440, and whenever I did relapse, and got the card next time, I see
After a lapse, your card is going to be back in the learning phase again. It's going to use the lapse setting to adjust the interval or limit of how many days each button can schedule a card into the future. The general rule is that the easy button will modify your ease factor despite currently having the same interval. When you lapse a card with a greater interval, you'll see that you won't have two "1 day" buttons.
where can i get anki decks for USMLE
Hello. I am not being able to change my settings. I keep getting an error asking me to disable the add ons. I launched my Anki by disabling the addons, only then I was able to change the settings.
Thank you for your help! Would you recommend the same settings for your Anking V6 deck ;)
Yup!
How did you get new only once in option group? mine is default and it doesnt show me your option
Any idea why some of my cards only have a max interval of 3 months when I've changed the setting for the entire deck to 6 months?
should I check mark the anki beta scheduler as well?
Hi! Thank you for this!!
Btw how can I change the setting of the subdecks all together? Seems like only the main deck settings was changed & not the subdecks below it.
Yes, when you're editing your options, at the top right click "manage" and then you can "set for all subdecks"
The AnKing can you do this for theiOS version too? :))
Trisha Laxamana yeah you should be able to do it on iOS as well!
@@AnKingMed for the longest time i was confused of this. thank you for letting us know. this should be mentioned in the beginning or in the description of the video.
@@MV-qw2dw thanks for the suggesiton!
Hello sir,
1st of thank you so much for all that you do and for making thing simpler. I downloaded your program today and I can see myself passing my exam already. My question is,
1. If I set my interval at 7 days, is that mean That my cards will not go more than 7 days with out a review?
2. I have 488 cars and my exam is in 5 weeks. What should be my setting as far as my interval?
Again, thank you for creating such a useful tool.
1. That's usually correct, but Anki does introduce some "fuzz" so there's a chance it will be 1 or two days after that
2. I would just recommend the settings in this video
Hi sir, so Anki is free, as long as i open it int he computer, but for the APp, in Apple, I have to pay ? Right?
What settings would you recommend for a pre-made deck with 6300 cards for 2 months
Are these settings available on MacBook Air? I cannot seem to access this page.
there is an option for everyday due cards. how do I study everyday due cards? What settings do I need to select?
Happy new year! I’m hoping you can respond to my question. I recently downloaded the Tzanki Step 2 deck. I want to start off with the Internal Medicine deck. My issue is, how do I know how many cards to study everyday in order to get through the whole internal medicine deck? Which one of your videos would you recommend I watch? Or what do you suggest I do?
We have a video on how to use Anki alongside lecture that may help, but we haven't made anything specific for Step 2 stuff yet. Ideally you should count how many cards are in that deck and divide by how many weeks you have to study and that's how many new cards you want to do per week. I typically use "per week" instead of "per day" because some days its impossible to add new content, but other days I have more free time
The AnKing got it..I just checked and the total cards under internal medicine is 3012. I’m going to go ahead and do 3012cards/10weeks ≈ 301 cards per week. Now, because I don’t want to annoy you with my questions lol which video should I watch to help me set the settings to learn 301per week without fail?
@@bernardogavidia2030 I just do them in bunches. For example, if you had 3 days to add new cards, unsuspend 100 cards and then do them each of those days
Hi man, i'm having problems to build filtered decks. I have cards tagged with different subjects inside a big deck and when i want to do a filtered deck to focus on a specific topic many of the cards with the tag dont show up. I think it has do to with difficulty they display in the explore tab which is either 0% o 250% for the cards that dont show up in the filtered deck. I dont know how to fix it without resseting the cards and i dont want to do that, do you hace any tips?
Try building the filtered deck and directly copying the search bar contents in the browse window and pasting it in the filtered deck creator. Each card must be unsuspended.
when i press 1d isnt it supposed to come out again in 1 day? some of my reviewed cards come out once a week , which made me forgot that those cards even exist, helpp
for me it says the dte and time setting are not right but I checked and it still won't work. What do I do?
Should I set Steps (in minutes) for 30 1440 and steps (in minutes) for 25 1440? I'm bit confused because you switch to new only once settings and you describing the options based on that. Do you recommend any specific options for learning languages?
How to do this on ankidroid?
I would very highly discourage using the bury sibling cards to next day feature. I have a test tomorrow and had that feature on, because there are so many sibling cards, I have apparently been doing one card on each topic per day for the past 2 weeks, and just realized now that other cards were being buried everyday so that everyday I'd be doing one card, and now I am trying to speedrun everything i missed before the exam lol.
One card on each topic per day for 2 weeks would be about 14 cloze deletions. Maybe you're not making cards the right way.
For some reason after the 3 day interval it abruptly changes to 17 days, can someone help?? I remember it being like 1, 3, 5, etc so Im just very confused
Care to explain me what were the biggest differences that you have found between using these settings and the default settings. I'd like to implement these but I'm still unsure whether it is actually a good idea. Also is this good to use when learning languages?
I made a video on “Ease hell” which can happen more often than not with the default settings
What are good settings for someone who tests every 2 weeks?
How do u add hard option when u do a card?
Unfortunately I can't follow your clip on my desktop. I have a different version of Anki which has no setting menu. I can only select Decks, Add, Browse, Stats, Sync and File, Edit, Tools, Help. Which version does the clip use?
This video was made using Anki 2.0, but we currently recommend using the most recent update. As of today it is Anki 2.1.22
@@AnKingMed Thanks for your quick and helpful answer.
Thank you AnKing!
Do people actually ever refer to the stats or settings page (after setting to AnKing's / Zach's recommended of course)? I've been using Anki for some time and I've never used those two pages.. am I missing out on something?
You're not really missing out on anything. It's helpful if you're trying to analyze your habits/efficiency but not necessary. I didn't start using it until this year after having used Anki through undergrad and my first 2 years of medical school. It's made no difference in what I learn.
Can i use this for vocabulary learning? I was doing 200 cards a day. But with these setting i now have it showing 6900 a day. How do i go about this deck now? Like what will be my routine?
Hi! thank you so much for your time and videos! I am just starting with anki (& anking deck). I was wondering if you could please confirm the sub-settings for new cards: (new cards/day, wherein you have it set for 9999)...? Thanks again (:
@The AnKing What's the rationale for setting the new cards/day to 9999? Thanks for your help.
@@blessedpig08 Withoug maxing the limit to 9999, then there is a chance that this setting could limit the amount of info you're trying to learn. Perhaps your limit was set to 200 new cards/day. If you unsuspended a tag with 250 cards, you wouldn't allow yourself to study everything. This would compound over the days, weeks, and months and your studying would always be limited to a certain percentage of the total content. 9999 is the simplest way to make sure that doesn't happen. Realistically, you could put like 1000 and be mostly safe.
@@AnKingMed Thank you so much for your reply - and more importantly, all your tremendous work! I am learning so much from all your videos, and you are an inspiration!
you sound like the guy from Physeo's usmle step 1 success stories podcast
I run a tutoring center and I'd like my students to use Anki for their vocabulary flashcards but they only come 2 or 3 times a week and we can only give about 10 min. of the session to Anki (more for some students who have significant vocabulary deficits)..... I know Anki is not really made for this scenario but I'd still like to try to use it to make the time we do spend on vocabulary as efficient and effective as possible. Could you suggest any key settings I should consider?
You could try using the custom filtered decks and just manually keeping track of which decks you're reviewing with them?
So do you recommend Burying new cards until next day? I thought it would be helpful but then won't that increase the amount of work you'll have to do the following day as you have all your cloze cards + the new cards you wish to review from another chapter? I'm now thinking about keeping it off.
It does increase the work a bit, but I like it because it spreads things out better
Hello
I have two questions
What happens when a card reaches the 180 days maximum interval? Does the card start over like a new one?
No. Once a card reaches the maximum interval it will stay at that interval as long as the user continues to mark "good" when seeing that card.
Hey everyone! I downloaded and integrated a large deck including 12.000 cards. Unfortunately when I change the learning algorithm it does not apply it to the deck. Has anyone encountered this problem and has a solution?
My sentence stayed in center and i want them to stay from left to right. How can i solve this problem?
hey anking! today while doing my cards, i noticed that cards we being scheduled later than the dates on the buttons showed. for example i pressed easy on a card with 7 days on the button and when i checked the due date in my browser it was set to 9 days from now.. I dont have load balancer or any other add on that would interfere with my scheduling.. Do you know why this is happening? Thanks !
That is likely due to the "fuzz" that Anki introduces into the algorithm. You can read up on it in the user manual if you'd like
@@AnKingMed thanks will do!
My default ease first getting anki was 130% so should I change it to 250% or just leave it at that?
Change it. Don't get stuck in ease hell (when you end up reviewing [not learning] a card way too often),
If you want to optimize your memory without reducing the ease, expand on your learning steps (e.g 1 min, 30 mins, 1 day, 3 days and then 7 days, card graduates with 10-day interval.) Find the learning sequence that suits you as that is the best time to be seeing the cards most frequently.
Sorry, one more question if that's okay! What happens if you're learning cards, and you want to do them earlier on day two than you did the first day? Will they not show up, since it hasnt been 1440 minutes yet?
Yeah they'll show up. It treats 1440 as 1 day and your "day" restarts whenever your settings are in the preferences. So even if you do your card at 11pm, if you next day starts at 4am, it'll be ready to review at 4am.
@@AnKingMed awesome. appreciate it.
Would you say that these setting are appropriate for PA school? We usually do modules with 20 days of learning 1-2k slides and then a test.
Yeah these would work well!
Hey I don't know where and who else to ask lol but is there a way to change an already made basic card type into a cloze card type? I'm modifying an existing deck as I said but most are normal basic cards which I don't like and I want to edit them to cloze deletion. Is that possible? If you already have a vid on that I'd appreciate the link! Thanks for your help.
d g I am currently not aware of any way other than changing the note type and adding the cloze deletion individually to each card :/
browse-select card- double click and change note type
@@AnKingMed i got it! i was able to just get an addon called basic to cloze automatic or something and it worked pretty efficiently!