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I've been thinking of starting an Anki discussion for a few days. Specifically, I'm wondering about decks that people have found or made, and why they're using them.
I've been learning Spanish and ASL and am considering memorizing braille, morse, and some chunks of biochemistry. One thing I've gone looking for twice now is something to help memorize combinatorics content like stirling numbers, binomal coefficients, and the 12-fold way but I think I might have to make that set myself.
Playing with Anki enough to feel confident that I can keep to it for years makes me realized that I'm not sure what it would be good to memorize. It seems wise to ask other people what their strategy with Anki is so I don't look back two years later and not feel like I spent them on things that were too silly or dissipative :-)
Please do.
How can I create my own deck programmatically? In other words, if I decide to make my own multiplication table deck, I want to do it with
forloops rather than typing all 100 multiplication facts into Anki itself. I was unable to answer this question myself with a bit of searching, although it looks like .anki files are SQLite databases, so I could reverse-engineer it.(Your post, by the way, did provoke me into getting around to installing Anki, even though I run Linux not a Mac.)
Edit: I just noticed that "File" > "Import" has a "Text separated by tabs or semicolons" setting that will probably do the trick.
Edit 2: The Anki documentation gives the details of how the imported file should be formatted.