Hi!, this is Gabe from fluent-forever.com.
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to get to your Anki decks onto your mobile device.
I will show you the process all the way from downloading a deck, in this case my French
pronunciation trainer, to reviewing it on your smart phone.
First, I am going to open up Anki.
I will look over here and I will see okay here are all the decks that I've been sort
of building over the last few tutorials.
Now I just downloaded a French pronunciation trainer, and so, I'm going to find that in
my downloads folder.
On a Mac, if I double-click this, it will decompress the file and
I'm going to see a folder that has all the stuff from the French pronunciation trainer in it.
This should work the same on most PCs.
On some of them, they're going to say hey you need to open up WinZip to do this, and
it will show you those files there and you'll have to press like decompress or something.
And then you'll see these four files.
Generally, you just have to double-click and it will open up this folder.
In this folder, I'll find a bunch of different files, a readme that tells you what to do
and how this works, a link to Anki to install it.
I already have Anki installed so I don't need to worry about that.
And then a link to all the videos that go along with this trainer. And finally, the actual trainer itself.
I'm going to open up this folder and I will see an Anki deck.
As we talked about in some of the earlier tutorials, to install an Anki deck, all you
have to do is double-click it, just open it up and it will open up in Anki.
And so it says 614 cards imported.
It shows me the 28 I have to do today because it dulls them out in sort of daily increments.
If I wanted to, I could click on this name of the deck and start reviewing.
I'll see things like b as in 'bol'.
If I press show answer, it will tell me if I'm right.
And then I can decide okay, am I going to click the good button, do I know this or am
I going to click the again button because I wasn't quite so sure?
This is relatively familiar.
Now we want to get this onto our mobile devices.
And so, to do that, the button you need to know about is this circular button, the synchronized button up here.
If you click it, you're going to see this.
It's going to say you need an account which is a free thing to get.
If you don't already have an account which you probably don't, then press the sign up
button and it will send you over to Ankiweb, which is Anki's free synchronization service.
To get an account, all you have to do is press the sign up button.
And so, I'm going to do that here and then I'm going to sign up.
I'll confirm that again and then I'm going to sign up under that.
At this point, Ankiweb is going to create a completely new account for me, separate
from my computer account.
It's going to have one deck in it, the default deck and it will have no cards in that deck.
Basically, this is a tiny, basically empty thing.
And so, I need to make this not empty.
I want to send all this good stuff over here to here.
I will type in my account ID and my password, and go.
And so, this is going to start uploading, but first,
it's going to ask you this question it's basically saying in a whole bunch of words that the
stuff that's here is different from the stuff that's there.
You can't have both, so pick which one you want.
In this case, I want the stuff that's on my computer.
I don't need this empty default deck.
And so, I want to upload everything that's on my computer to Ankiweb.
You're going to press this button and it's going to send everything on your computer up to Ankiweb.
Now if you're doing stuff like sending up a French pronunciation trainer, these things are large.
And so, usually there is no problem, but it will take a while and sometimes it will take multiple tries.
So you may need to do it two or three times, because Anki servers can get overloaded.
Generally, everything is going to get sent up over the course of a few minutes.
Once it's there, we'll be able to review our decks online and basically any sort of media;
on any smart phone, on any internet connected computer.
And so, that's sort of the first step in this process.
We're going to take a break and let this upload, and then we'll come back once it's done.
We're back.
Anki has successfully uploaded everything up to Ankiweb.
And so, if I go over to Ankiweb and I reload this page, instead of seeing this default
deck, I'm going to see all of my stuff; my Hungarian deck, my French deck ' everything.
I can go directly to this website, ankiweb.net/deck.
Actually just go to ankiweb.net.
I can actually review my flashcards with the sounds, with the pictures, with everything
online from any device; from a smart phone, from a computer ' anything.
This is already pretty good.
Let me show you what this looks like.
You hit study now and it will show you all your flashcards with the pictures.
If you want to see okay, what sound does this make?
B as in 'bol' I know this makes a 'b' sound.
Let's see if I'm right.
I check show answer.
I can play those sounds and I can decide did I get this wrong,
do I hit the soon button or did I get this right and do I hit the good button.
One of the issues with Ankiweb is that these play buttons are relatively slow.
And so, while it is a new feature that Ankiweb really supports sounds on smart phones and
on computers, I find this a little annoying.
What I prefer instead are the native apps for android devices and for iOS devices which
lets you download the whole deck off-line.
For one you can study when you don't have internet connection, and more importantly,
they work a lot faster.
The android app is free and works really very well.
The iOS app is not.
It's not free.
It does work well.
It's honestly fairly expensive.
At least at the moment when I'm recording this video, it's 25 bucks.
That being said, it's a really high quality app and I do recommend it wholeheartedly,
but I would recommend trying out Anki on your computer first, making sure that this is a
good fit for you and then investing 25 bucks if you want this on your iPhone.
Let's get this working.
On my phone, if it pops up I have the Anki mobile app installed.
If I have this done, I'm going to hit the Anki button.
I have a completely naked Anki app.
There's nothing here just like there was in Ankiweb.
Remember that Ankiweb started out with that default deck, well same thing here.
What I need if I want to have this on my phone is I need to hit the synchronize button.
I'm going to tap that and again, it's going to ask me for a login and password.
And so, I'm going to type in my login, the one that I put into Ankiweb.
I'm going to type in my password.
It's going to ask me the exact same question I had before.
In this case, it's saying the stuff on your phone is different from the stuff over here.
You can't have both, which one do you want.
In this case, the stuff that's on Ankiweb is the stuff I want.
The stuff on my phone is just nothing.
It's just a default deck.
I am going to download from Ankiweb in this case.
I want to transfer this stuff to my phone.
And so, I'll hit download from Ankiweb.
Again, it's going to take some time to synchronize.
Again, we'll take a little pause and let it download.
It may take multiple tries, although usually, at least in the last few times I've tried
this, it really does download everything all at once.
Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Now our upload is complete.
And so, we can basically study on our cell phones.
I can press French pronunciation trainer and it will show me the exact same flashcards.
If I press anywhere, I can press anywhere on this screen, it's going to show me the backside.
It will tell me if I'm right.
B as in 'bol', I think this is a 'b' sound.
I can press any of these play buttons to hear any of those sounds again.
As normal, I have my options.
I can press the red button if I didn't get it and I can press the green button if I did
get it, and I can press this button if I really, really
got it and I don't want to hear it anymore.
Generally, you're pressing the red and green buttons.
If I choose one, I'll choose the two day one ' the green one.
It will show me another card.
Let's say I've studied this and I've studied this for my 30 seconds and I want to continue
studying on my computer.
Well in this case, I'm going to press.
I'm going to go back to the deck interface by pressing this back button up here.
I'm going to press the synchronize button down on the bottom right.
It will send my changes up into Ankiweb.
If I reload Ankiweb, instead of practicing b as in 'bol' which I've already done, if
I reload, I will notice that there are only 27 cards
to study because I've already done one.
On my computer for instance, if I want these changes to go back to my computer,
then I'll press the synchronize button up here again.
It will download these changes from Ankiweb and keep everything up to date.
The idea here is I can study and my cell phone for 15 minutes and then if I decide to study
on another device later, on my laptop for instance, if I do all the
synchronization, I can pick up wherever I left off.
Generally, personally, I like to just study on my cell phone and then whenever I make
new cards, I'll do them over on the computer.
Cell phones are not great for making new cards.
They are really great for studying, but new cards, you just can't have the sort of
I have six browser windows open and I'm dumping* things onto all my flashcards.
Cell phones don't do that yet.
And so, that is basically it in terms of getting Anki working across multiple devices.
I hope that clears up some things up and I will see you next time.