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In a Nutshell Adjust the interval modifier in Anki’s deck options until you’re getting 80 to 90% of your reviews correct. Anki isn’t going to do this for you. Anki isn’t magic If Reddit’s Anki forum is any indication, new Anki users seem to think that Anki has some magic... [Read More]

In a Nutshell For each deck options group in Anki, set the initial ease factor to the average ease factor of the mature cards in that deck options group. UPDATE 2017-02-15: I completed an addon to do this automatically for all decks. To install from within Anki, use Tools » Addons »... [Read More]

I’m working on an addon for Anki that will do the following things for deck options that you select: Set starting ease factor of cards to the average ease factor of cards with intervals > 90 days Adjust the interval modifier to try to hit your selected success rate (80%,... [Read More]

Tip: you can use spell checking in vim! set spell spelllang=en_us Actually, leaving off the spelllang will probably work for you too. Your system is probably set to use a default language. I’ve been using vim for years and didn’t know about this… so much to learn about vi/vim. When... [Read More]

I have a couple blogs that run off of Jekyll and I wanted to be able to quickly fire off a post from another workstation. The work-flow I wanted was something like this: [Read More]