Introduction
For an basic introduction to AnkiMini see http://ichi2.net/anki/ankimini/
This page contains some advanced information about AnkiMini. If you have an iPod touch/iPhone or iPad, you may want to check out the official client AnkiMobile instead.
AnkiMini UI
Apart from the question/answer button, there are 8 buttons on the basic UI:
Save: Save the deck file. Decks will also be saved on sync.
Mark: Mark the current card. Adds a "Marked" tag to the card which you can use to find it when you're back on the desktop client.
Replay: Repeat audio for the current card.
Sync: Sync the deck with Anki Online.
Config: Configuration settings
Local: List of local decks (add new ones by downloading)
Online: Download personal deck from Anki Online
About: Version information, etc.
How AnkiMini works
AnkiMini runs on a local python web server (using the SimpleHTTPServer module) on port 8000. The underlying library (libanki) is identical to the desktop client. Decks and the configuration file are stored in the home directory, in ~/.anki/.
Although the ankimini library is the same, there are some behavior changes from the desktop client:
AnkiMini does not keep an undo log in the deck, so you can not undo answers.
AnkiMini does not keep any backups, so you will need to re-download a deck if it's totally broken.
Debugging AnkiMini
If you want to debug a problem with AnkiMini, the easiest way is via SSH.
- Install openSSH on your device.
SSH to your device. In MacOS, run Terminal and SSH to the IP of your phone. In Windows, use PuTTY
Find the AnkiMini process, and kill it (so we can restart it interactively):
mobile$ ps x |grep python 35 ?? Ss 4:00.86 python main.py mobile$ kill -9 35- Start a new ankimini process interactively by changing to the app directory and running the startup script:
mobile$ cd /path/to/AnkiMini mobile$ ./ankimini
The output of ankimini will now go to your console, with information about the URLs being requested. Any exceptions will give you stack traces.
open deck.. /home/mobile/.anki/newdeck.anki please install pysqlite 2.4 for better progress dialogs starting server on port 8000 localhost - - [26/Jan/2010 14:49:13] "GET /question HTTP/1.1" 200 - service time 0.120165109634