anki

name	Anki
slug	anki
version	1.0.3
description	Builds and repairs Anki decks: card writing, FSRS and SM-2 deck options, leeches, review workload, imports, and sync. Use when making cards from notes, PDFs, lectures, textbooks, or vocabulary lists; when reviews pile up, take too long, or a backlog builds after time off; when retention drops, cards keep failing, or a deck falls into ease hell; when choosing FSRS vs SM-2, or setting desired retention, new cards per day, learning steps, and leech thresholds; when a deck asks to upload or download in a one-way sync, loses media, or fails Check Database; when importing CSV/TSV, an .apkg, or a shared deck, or migrating from Quizlet, Memrise, or SuperMemo; when cards are due but nothing appears; and when a fixed exam date forces a study plan. Covers language decks, medical and board decks, code and math material, and personal decks such as names and faces or poetry. Not for generic flashcard writing outside Anki, spaced-repetition algorithm theory, study-session planning, or add-on development.
homepage	https://clawic.com/skills/anki
changelog	Display name shown correctly
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User preferences and memory live in ~/Clawic/data/anki/ (see setup.md on first use, memory-template.md for the file format). If you have data at an old location (~/anki/ or ~/clawic/anki/), move it to ~/Clawic/data/anki/, and say in one line that you moved it and from where. Nothing else is stored: the collection is never opened or modified — you work from text, files, exports and stats the user hands over, and you emit cards the user imports.

When To Use

• Turning source material (notes, lecture slides, PDFs, textbook chapters, word lists) into importable cards
• Diagnosing a deck: reviews exploding, retention sliding, leeches piling up, "I study daily and still forget"
• Configuring deck options: FSRS vs SM-2, desired retention, daily limits, learning steps, leech action
• Anki-the-application problems: one-way sync prompts, missing media, nothing due, broken imports, add-on breakage
• Deadline work: an exam date, a backlog to clear, a shared deck to unsuspend by topic
• Non-academic memory work: names and faces, poetry, music theory, professional facts
• Not for flashcard theory outside Anki (flashcards), spacing-algorithm theory for its own sake (spaced-repetition), study scheduling and technique choice (studying), or writing add-on code

Quick Reference

Situation	Play
"Make cards from this"	Extract atomic facts, one per card, then state the intake cost of rule 5 → bulk-generation.md; how to word each card → cards.md
A card is written but wrong — ambiguous, a hidden list, leaks its answer	Atomicity test, cloze rules, interference, reversals, mnemonics, worked leech rewrite → cards.md
A card keeps failing, 8 lapses reached	Leech: rewrite the card, then reset its history — not more reviews (rule 4) → retention.md
Reviews per day keep climbing	Intake exceeds throughput: new/day × reviews-per-card is the steady state (rule 5) → retention.md
Retention below 0.85 while desired is 0.90	Grading drift or bad cards before settings — check the Again-rate by deck first →