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Anki Setup

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Download

Get the latest version from Official Anki Download Page.

Preferences

Go to Tools→Preferences and set all settings as below. Configure Answer Keys to your liking.

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Apperance Tab

anki preferences

Review Tab

anki preferences

Editing Tab

anki preferences

Syncing Tab

Log into your AnkiWeb Account on Syncing page. anki preferences

Other Tabs

Set remaining tabs to whatever.

Presets

Click on your deck's settings knob → options and setup the default preset for Japanese decks:

  • 10 new cards a day
  • All available reviews
  • New cards with 5min → 15min steps
  • Failed cards with 10min → 1hour steps
  • After 5 failed reviews card is suspended

anki presets

Note Type

My favourite Anki Note Type for Japanese is jp-mining-note. You can find installation gudie here. After that you can read through Reference to understand card structure and Note Type features.

Example

You can download my sample card to see how I usually use this template. The only thing I changed is the field order to make card creation a bit easier.

anki note type

One of my favourite things about this note is that you can hover over kanji and see in which your other card this kanji was used. Very helpful to make connections between cards and increase retantion rate.

anki note type

Warning

Card will create a warning if you have multiple cards for the same word. I personally ignore them and don't mind having multiple cards in multiple contexts for complicated words.

Add-ons

Highly recommended to install listed below essential add-ons. Navigate to Tools→Add-ons, push Get Add-ons..., and type the code according to addon page. Then some of these add-ons will have Config option or separate settings button in Tools tab which you can tweak up to your liking. I leave everything at default, except Review Heatmap.

Essentiual add-ons

Note

I recommend to put heatmap Tools→Review Heatmap Options... in Continuous Timeline for better looks. anki heatmap

Optional add-ons

Finish

Now your Anki Setup should be completed, congratulations! ⭐

As the next setup, you can go to setting up Yomitan for quick look ups and easy card creation.

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