This week's review is for the famous Anki. I would recommend their work for all levels of learner.
An example of Anki in use (2008, GNU General Public License) Damien Elmes
What
Anki is a group of apps, a website and community based around Spaced Repetitious Software consisting of flashcards. The main tools you can use in this group are Ankidroid for Android, and I believe AnkiMobile for iphone users (if you catch me using an iphone you have lost me to capitalism or authoritarianism.)
Ankiweb is the online website which acts as a main landing page for all Anki affiliated accounts and also allows PC users to download Anki as an application which works in the same way as the mobile versions. All Anki software uses Decks, Shared Decks and Cards. Cards are essentially a digital flashcard which can individually be created under the 'Add' section of the website, or in the '+' button and Add section of Ankidroid. Decks are the name for a collation of Cards which are usually grouped together by people as a study aid for medicine, law, trivia and for our purposes, languages. To find other peoples decks, go into the Shared Deck section where you will find 'Languages' and under that 'Japanese'.
Clicking into a sample shared deck will bring up the layout of the card. Cards are highly customisable, with fields being able to be hidden, omitted or include user-generated input, dependent upon the need of the user. Cards can include images, text, soundbytes, gifs, small videos and non-Latin scripts such as Kanji, Arabic etcetera. On downloading a deck from Shared Decks/creating your own (not always necessary or recommended) and clicking into the deck, the card will present itself from one side up. Clicking into 'Show Answer' will show the reverse and allow the card to show other affiliated information such as stroke order, particles etcetera for Japanese cards for example.
Who
This took was created by Damien Elmes in 2006. Other developers created Ankidroid.
Where
Anki is available online at https://ankiweb.net/
Ankidroid is the integrated Android app, AnkiMobile for iphonia.
For the extended universe of Anki applications and download guides see https://apps.ankiweb.net/
When
Available 24/7.
Why
Anki is probably the most popular SRS software out there. Revision is a vital part of a lot of people's ability to recall information in the long-term and also help to give idle hands something to do if you like to do daily revision to feel you have done something, even if its 10 minutes.
Anki is also useful for its capacity to be used in innovative ways if you need it to do. As an open-source public access bit of software, this is Open Access Software at some of what it can do best and is used at along a majority of standardised tests in major Universities. If that isn't good enough for you, ask a friend. I'm just a disembodied string of letters on a blog post.
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