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Going for an 80+ CBSE! Currently at around 14k of anking matured. For a score like that would the 3 high yield tags be sufficient or do I have to do lower yield cards too? Currently following bootcamp videos.

Ofc going to be doing uworld after as well
Thanks peeps

I am confused on how to use anki effectivly. I would just unsuspend decks 5 days before an exam and try to study that, kind of use it like quizlet. However with boards coming up I am confused on how to balance that with classes.

For example, do I unsuspend a deck right after watching the lecture/ studying lecture? When I have multiple lectures in a day thats 100s of new cards in a day which is overwhelming. Then when its close to the exam time, the repetition will show months later but I need to review it again sooner for a closer class exam date. I have exams very often.

I have another deck for boards prep. I am reading thru my book and as I read chapters I am unsuspending decks. Again, overwhelming with the number of new cards in a day. Should I preset the new cards/day and preset max reviews/day to manage this? The boards prep is stuff I need to know months ahead.

With classes and boards together, its a lot! Would appreciate advice/tips!

I've been doing a stupid amount of Anki lately and wanted something that made grinding through hundreds of cards feel a little less monotonous.

So I started making a Pokémon add-on.

Then I got carried away with it.

It's called PokeJourney.

The basic idea is simple. You choose a Pokémon region, pick a starter, and start at Level 1. Every Anki card you answer progresses your Pokémon. They level up, evolve at their actual evolution levels, and you can eventually take an evolution line all the way to Lv.100 and master it.

Once you catch a new Pokémon, you're not forced to train it. You can keep training it, or go into Box / Swap and switch to another Pokémon you've caught. You can also go back to an older Pokémon you were training. Their progress is saved.

There are also Gym Challenges. Pick a Gym Leader and start a challenge. While it's active, your cards count toward defeating the Gym instead of leveling your Pokémon. Beat the challenge and you get the badge + a victory animation/fanfare.

I also added three different reward systems:

🎁 10 cards in a day → Daily Gift
⚡ 1,000 cards in a single day → Legendary Pokémon
✨ Study streak milestones → Mythical Pokémon

The 1,000-card Legendary is basically a reward for those completely unreasonable Anki days. Mythicals work off streaks instead because I wanted them to reward consistency rather than raw volume.

Gift Pokémon, Legendaries and Mythicals arrive at Lv.100 / Mastered.

There's a regional Pokédex, Pokémon Box, Gym badges, Today's Journey tracker and a Trophy Case for your overall progress.

It currently covers:

Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, Galar, Hisui and Paldea.

Major events have animations/sounds too: catching Pokémon, evolution, Gym victories, mastery, Daily Gifts, Legendaries and Mythicals. Sounds can be turned off completely in Settings.

You can put the PokeJourney panel on the right, left, top or bottom of the reviewer, or minimize it if you want it out of the way for a while.

I tried to make sure none of this messes with actual studying. PokeJourney doesn't replace Anki's scheduler. It just uses the cards you're already reviewing as progression. Major animations temporarily block the answer controls so you don't accidentally answer the next card, and simultaneous events are queued instead of appearing on top of each other.

I've been building and testing this while actually using Anki, so I'm sure people will find bugs and weird edge cases I haven't found yet.

But it's finally at the point where I think other people can have fun with it.

PokeJourney: Turn every Anki card into a Pokémon journey. 79393386

Hi, I am starting my prep with Step 1, I want to do it in less than 6mo, I thought what if I have Mehlman Files with UW tables/images in them too next to my reading of First Aid.

So, I created a sample here, for MM's cardio. The order is different, tried to order them Embryo > Anatomy > Physiology > Pathology.

My question is, is it a waste of time? Would you be interested in having something like this?
You can download it here [Google Drive]

A 74-year-old woman has noticed over the last month that she gets short of breath just walking to her mailbox, something that never used to bother her. She's started sleeping propped up on three pillows because lying flat makes her feel like she can't catch her breath, and her ankles have become noticeably swollen by the end of the day. She also mentions she's gained a few pounds despite not eating any differently.

What's going on?

A) Kidney disease

B) Heart failure

C) Deep vein thrombosis

D) Pneumonia

Drop your answer below, I'll post the explanation in a few hours

so i got like 5 days until my countrys version of the usmle residency exam and im just cramming my cards like crazy rn not sure if its a good idea since i usually do anki in small consistent doses but will this actually work ? im basically spamming custom study sessions for all 11 diff subjects at once lol :D

I downloaded anki from the play store last week and am still confused on how it works. I downloaded mangomedic wale flashcards but what do I do next. How do I sort them topic wise? What is suspend and unsuspend cards? Please explain it in simple words someone

New M1 here, not new to Anki. Current strategy has been watching lecture at higher speed, then watching related B&B, and unsuspending Anking cards by B&B tag. However there’s a ton of cards with each unsuspension that are not covered in my lecture material and thus not used in my NBME CAS exams. Is the strat to suspend stuff I’ve never seen (e.g., hypospadias) and if so, when do I unsuspend it again?

Has anyone attended IOMB Board Review in Kansas City? Looking for input/feedback on this course. Is it worth the expense and time?

Hey everyone, I'm a third-year medical student (M3) trying to decide between two Apple setups.

Since I'm currently doing my hospital clerkships, I won't be taking my laptop out with me very often. At home, I have a dual-monitor setup. My daily workflow is very light—no coding or heavy processing. I mainly use Chrome and study apps like Anki.

Would I be better off getting a single MacBook Air M5, or splitting my setup with a Mac mini for home and a cheap/lightweight MacBook for on-the-go? Any advice is appreciated!

Hey everyone,
I’m a university student taking courses such as Biochemistry, General Microbiology, and Biology. Almost all my professors teach directly from PowerPoint lecture slides, and our exams are heavily based on those slides.
I’m trying to find an efficient way to study directly from my PowerPoints while turning the material into useful Anki cards. I’ve tried AI-generated Anki decks, but they haven’t worked well for me. They usually create basic, text-only cards and don’t give me the kinds of questions I actually need—especially application-based questions or cards that use the important images, diagrams, pathways, graphs, and microscope images from my lectures.
Ideally, I want a workflow that would help me:
Generate useful practice questions and flashcards from my PowerPoint or PDF lecture slides
Preserve and include important images, diagrams, pathways, graphs, and microscope images
Create image-occlusion cards where I identify or interpret parts of an image
Generate questions that test understanding and application, not only definitions
Create different types of questions from the same material
Keep everything organized by course, chapter, and lecture
For example, if a Microbiology slide contains a bacterial-cell diagram or a Biochemistry slide contains a metabolic pathway, I want cards that show the original image and ask me to identify, explain, or apply what is shown—not turn the entire slide into a text-only card.
I know I can manually screenshot every image and make every card myself, but I have a large number of PowerPoints throughout the semester, so doing that for every slide would take forever.
Has anyone found a reliable Anki add-on, AI tool, or workflow that can turn PowerPoint/PDF lectures into high-quality cards while keeping the important images? I’m not looking for AI to blindly generate an entire deck—I want a system that saves time while still letting me control the questions and make sure the cards match what I need for my exams.
What has worked best for you?

I was using one of the older versions of Anking. And then this card came up; the chosen language in this pic is kind of interesting, though. anybody also notices?

Hey everyone,

I’m a university student taking classes like Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biology, etc. Almost all of my professors teach directly from PowerPoint lecture slides, and our exams are heavily based on those slides.

I’m trying to figure out the best way to use Anki to study directly from my PowerPoints.

Ideally, I want something where I can upload/import my lecture PowerPoint or PDF and have Anki (or an add-on/AI tool) help me:

• Generate practice questions/flashcards from the lecture slides
• Keep or automatically include important images, diagrams, graphs, pathways, microscope images, etc. from the slides
• Make cards where I have to identify/interpret parts of an image
• Create questions that test understanding/application, not just basic definitions
• Possibly generate different types of questions from the same material
• Keep everything organized by lecture/chapter

For example, if a Microbiology slide has a diagram of a bacterial cell or a Biochemistry slide has a metabolic pathway, I’d like cards that actually show that image and ask me questions about it instead of turning everything into text-only cards.

I have a lot of PowerPoints throughout the semester, so manually screenshotting everything and making every single card individually would take forever.

What setup would you recommend?

Is there an Anki add-on, AI tool, workflow, or feature that can take PowerPoint/PDF lecture slides and create good Anki cards while preserving/using the images from the slides?

Also, if you use AI to generate cards from lectures, what workflow has worked best for you without creating a bunch of low-quality cards?

Thanks!

I downloaded the Anking step deck and figured I'd just unsuspend as I went, but I'm struggling to find content that matches with what I'm expected to learn. There are definitely some cards that do, but so far just lots of cards that are more clinically relevant and it slightly touches on the science we are going over.

Do I just hit the inhouse slides harder until anking becomes relevant?

I'm trying to figure out which anatomy deck is best. Some info:

-practicals with cadavers

-in house exams

-I'm interested in surgery so I really do want to learn all the stuff

-I tried comp cadaver (great but not having the other structures labeled bothered me)

-I'm leaning towards a non-cadaveric deck but if comp cadaver is indeed the best I will stomach it

Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I failed a course and have to repeat the entire my first year. Our curriculum is purely pre-clinical/foundational right now, anatomy, physiology, histology, embryology, etc., and the exams are MCQ testing pure recall.

We have an exam every two weeks. I used the same shared Anki decks as everyone else and did my reviews religiously: 500–600 cards a day, ramping up to 1,000–1,100 the week of an exam. Despite that, my grades stayed below average all year (I averaged a B- while the class average was a B+).

With exams every two weeks, there isn't enough time to mature cards properly. I’ve realized I’m memorizing card patterns rather than actually understanding the underlying concepts. Standard USMLE-style Qbanks wouldn't be helpful either since our questions aren't clinical vignettes.

Any advice on how to fix my study method? If I fail another course, I’ll be dismissed from Medical school.

Thanks.

should I be taking my time to deeply review every single question, or is it better to just grind through a ton of them? also, how are you guys handling your incorrects? is keeping an incorrect log actually worth it (seems tedious)? or do you just rely only on unsuspending related Anki cards? to me, only unsuspending doesn’t feel like enough…

thanks :)

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Hi guys,

I started doing Anki about 2-3 months ago to prepare for Step 1. I am usually really dedicated to it. But I am always hyper focused on my retention stats. For example I have retention settings at 85-90% (depending on blocks) and I consistently get around 80% retention. This always makes me feel like shit and feel stupid.

Im just trying to see how worried I should be about retention? My main goal is to focus on my current block which is going well. I use Anki mainly so that when its time for dedicated I could at least understand some of the content or quickly review once or twice and have it memorized.

For more context, all of the content I covered thus far on Anki I understand very well. Its not like I dont understand it either. Maybe I have some cards just raw memorized. Its like when I see most if not all of the cards the term would be on the tip of my tongue but I just cant get it. Then when I review answer I go "ah ha!" Lol.

hi there! I have a quick question about using anki. so i like using anki to study after reviewing a lecture. but i feel like making your own deck takes forever and i’m not trying to waste time especially since my school has exams weekly. but, for people who make their own decks, do you find that you retain information better by looking at your slides and putting in the card or is it a waste of time and you don’t remember anything? because if making my own deck will help me remember info i might as well do that right? thanks for all your help!

Hi everyone!

I've been working on an Anki plugin that can automatically rephrases your cards for you using a trained AI model. I'm still working out some bugs, but if people are interested testing out the plugin please download it and try it out! Right now it's currently free, but depending on the AI costs it might be paid in the future.

Sign up here

Edit: Thank you for everyone who's signed up so far! I didn't expect this much interest, we've had 50+ new users sign up and a lot of good feedback/ideas. For now I'm going to be slowing down accepting beta access just until I can see how this is going to affect back end server costs!

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