Comment by codethief
2 months ago
35,000+ cards? Wow.
Out of curiosity: How does the individual student select the cards they want to study? Using existing tags or their own custom tags I suppose? If they create custom tags, how do they keep their local version of the deck in sync with upstream?
The deck used to just be shared on reddit & such. But for all your questions, there is now a central "upstream" entity called AnkiHub that organizes and maintains updates to cards, syncs, etc. It's a $5/month subscription, but a lot of my friends just subscribe for a month each year to get the updates then unsubscribe.
All cards start suspended by default, and you unsuspend cards usually by tag. For example, lets say you watched a a popular third-party exam prep video from Boards & Beyond on Insulin. You would find the corresponding video has its own tag "tag:#AK\_Step1\_v12::#B&B::08\_Endocrinology::03\_Pancreas::03\_Insulin" which you would unsuspend all the cards for. That's the basic flow, but everyone does things a little differently.
Some people don't watch videos just do review questions from UWorld which are also tagged. Some people manage cards using a mix of tags and decks. Some people search and manually unsuspend cards individually. Some schools cross-tag cards with their lecture. Personally, I use an AI search to unsuspend cards by cross-referencing against a PDF of lecture for the day.
Custom tags can be protected when syncing from upstream: https://community.ankihub.net/t/protecting-fields-and-tags/1...
Thanks, very insightful!