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Ultimate Geography

Geography flashcard deck for Anki featuring:

The deck is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Norwegian BokmΓ₯l, Czech, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Italian and Danish.


Table of contents

Features

The standard version of the deck comes with four note templates: Country - Capital, Capital - Country, Flag - Country, and Map - Country. An extended version is also available, with two additional note templates: Country - Flag and Country - Map. The experimental version is a clone of extended version except it also provides interactivity for the Country - Map note template.

<table> <tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Flag - Country</th></tr> <tr><th scope="col">Front</th><th scope="col">Back</th></tr> <tr> <td><img src="doc/Flag - Country -- Front -- Christmas island.png"></td> <td><img src="doc/Flag - Country -- Back -- Christmas island.png"></td> </tr> </table> <table> <tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Map - Country</th></tr> <tr><th scope="col">Front</th><th scope="col">Back</th></tr> <tr> <td><img src="doc/Map - Country -- Front -- Mexico.png"></td> <td><img src="doc/Map - Country -- Back -- Mexico.png"></td> </tr> </table> <table> <tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Country - Capital</th></tr> <tr><th scope="col">Front</th><th scope="col">Back</th></tr> <tr> <td><img src="doc/Country - Capital -- Front -- Sri Lanka.png"></td> <td><img src="doc/Country - Capital -- Back -- Sri Lanka.png"></td> </tr> </table> <table> <tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Capital - Country</th></tr> <tr><th scope="col">Front</th><th scope="col">Back</th></tr> <tr> <td><img src="doc/Capital - Country -- Front -- Finland.png"></td> <td><img src="doc/Capital - Country -- Back -- Finland.png"></td> </tr> </table>

Supplementary information

To help with memorisation and provide context while learning, most notes include extra information:

Custom study

Anki's search feature, coupled with the deck's comprehensive tag structure, allows for the creation of filtered decks covering a wide range of learning goals and abilities. Here are some search queries you can use:

Getting started

First-time here? Welcome! πŸ‘‹

In order to install and later upgrade Ultimate Geography, you'll need to first install an Anki add-on called CrowdAnki:

  1. Open Anki on your computer, go to the Tools menu and select Add-ons.
  2. In the dialog box, click on Get Add-ons... and paste in the code provided on this page.
  3. Click on OK to install the add-on, and then restart Anki.

You're now ready to install Ultimate Geography:

  1. Go to the Releases page.
  2. In the latest release's Assets section, download the ZIP archive of the version of the deck you'd like to use. You can choose between a standard, extended and experimental version in a number of languages -- for instance, if you're after the standard German deck, download Ultimate_Geography_v[...]_DE.zip.
  3. Extract the content of the archive on your computer.
  4. Open Anki and make sure your devices are all synchronised.
  5. Create a manual backup via File -> Create Backup in case something goes wrong.
  6. In the File menu, select CrowdAnki: Import from disk.
  7. Browse for and select the folder you extracted from the archive, which contains the deck's JSON file and media folder -- e.g. Ultimate Geography [DE].
  8. Don't change anything in the CrowdAnki Import Settings dialog box that opens -- just press OK to start the import. A dialog box should then confirm that the import was successful.

πŸ‘‰ To stay informed of new releases, make sure to watch this repository's releases.

Upgrading

The upgrade process is typically the same as the installation process explained in the previous section. However, some situations require extra care. As a general rule, always read the release notes carefully; they will likely tell you what to do or point you to a page that does.

First upgrade after APKG import

You may have initially installed Ultimate Geography by importing an APKG file. You may have downloaded such a file from this repository or from the deck's page on AnkiWeb, as this used to be the recommended installation process.

If you're in this situation and wish to upgrade, proceed as follows:

  1. Perform the Getting started steps exactly.
  2. You should end up with two decks: your original deck called "Ultimate Geography" and a new, duplicated deck called "Ultimate Geography_2". Unless you created some notes of your own, every card in your original deck should have moved automatically to the new deck and your original deck should now be empty. You can verify this in Anki's card browser.
  3. To get back to having a single deck, move any of your own cards out of the original deck and delete it. Then, rename the new deck to "Ultimate Geography". From here on, future upgrades will be seamless.

If you're upgrading from v3.3 or earlier, then you may want to additionally follow the instructions for the v4.0 release.

Keeping deck customisations

If you've made, or are thinking of making, any changes to your Ultimate Geography deck, check the Customising the deck section below to see what will happen to them the next time you upgrade, and whether you need to take any steps to preserve them.

Levelling up from standard to extended (or to experimental)

Importing an extended deck on top of a standard deck is tricky and needs care. You may instead consider learning the extended deck from scratch. To do so, either:

If you'd rather keep your progress, proceed as follows:

  1. Perform the Getting started steps exactly.
  2. Instead of a dialog box confirming that the import was successful, you'll see another dialog box titled Change Note Type. In the Cards section, set Change Flag - Country to: to "Flag - Country" (instead of "Country - Flag"), and set Change Map - Country to: to "Map - Country" (instead of "Flag - Country").
  3. Check that the other cards and fields map correctly and click on OK to start the import.

The "mappings" for switching from standard to extended, as well as for all currently possible deck type changes are shown in tabular format here.

Major version

Major versions (e.g. v3.0) typically indicate that upgrading "the normal way" may lead to a significant loss of progress, or to the loss of some of the customisations you may have made to the deck that would normally be preserved. This can occur, for instance, when significant changes are made to the structure of the deck.

The release notes and upgrade instructions on the wiki will typically provide you with a way to upgrade to the major version without losing your progress. However, in some cases, the process can be daunting. 😰 If keeping your progress isn't worth the effort, or if you just feel like starting the deck again from scratch, then we recommend you perform a "clean import" as follows:

  1. Open Anki and make sure your devices are all synchronised.
  2. Delete the Ultimate Geography deck.
  3. In the Tools menu, select Manage Note Types, then delete the Ultimate Geography note type.
  4. In the Tools menu, select Check Database.
  5. Sync the changes with AnkiWeb and with all your devices.
  6. You can now follow the steps of the Getting started section to install the major version.

Deck structure

The notes are based on a note type called Ultimate Geography, which defines eight fields: Country, Country info, Capital, Capital info, Capital hint, Flag, Flag similarity, and Map.

The cards are generated by Anki on import based on four templates: Country - Capital, Capital - Country, Flag - Country, and Map - Country. The extended version of the deck includes two additional templates: Country - Flag and Country - Map.

The appearance of the cards is controlled solely with CSS; the content of the notes is free from HTML markup.

Every note is tagged. The tags, which are listed below by category, are prefixed with UG:: so they don't conflict with other decks. They can be used to create filtered decks for custom study.

Customising the deck

Interested in making changes to the deck in Anki? Here's what you need to know.

Changes that are or can be preserved πŸ’–

Changes that get reverted 😬

The changes listed below will be lost the next time you upgrade and there's no other solution than to make the changes again manually after the upgrade.

Changes that prevent upgrading β›”