

Also with Anki, you have to share decks, not cards. Yay event sourcing.) There are other ways to collaboratively build decks like CrowdAnki, but it means that people have to learn git. With my thing, anyone can publish any deck/card, and anyone can subscribe to it, receive notifications upon updates, and be able to merge changes without overwriting their customizations. I'm gonna assume that Anking doesn't really want to maintain a language learning deck.

Also, every deck change has to go through some central committee, and I'm trying to build something more decentralized. There are custom fields that are intended to be customized by users, but now you're stuck on that note type. You can customize it after downloading the update, but any subsequent updates will overwrite your customizations. However even with this solution, you are required to use that deck's notes and note types. I believe that Anking is also working on this problem by building a very fancy website and plugin, ETA sometime this year I think. There's no native way to sync changes from a master deck to any "follower" decks.

However the tools they have aren't great - right now they have to collect eratta in a literal google spreadsheet. There's a serious need for tools to collaboratively build community flash cards. Project mention: Would anyone be interested in a social anki? | /r/Anki |
