
Puppy Reinforcement for Anki
Everything's better with puppies!
An add-on for the spaced-repetition flashcard app Anki that encourages learners with pictures of cute puppies, following the principles of intermittent positive reinforcement.
Table of Contents
Video
A quick demo of the add-on (alongside other similar add-ons related to gamification):

Installation
AnkiWeb
The easiest way to install Puppy Reinforcement is through AnkiWeb.
Manual installation
Please click on the entry corresponding to your Anki version:
Anki 2.1
- Make sure you have the latest version of Anki 2.1 installed. Earlier releases (e.g. found in various Linux distros) do not support
.ankiaddon packages.
- Download the latest
.ankiaddon package from the releases tab (you might need to click on Assets below the description to reveal the download links)
- From Anki's main window, head to Tools โ Add-ons
- Drag-and-drop the
.ankiaddon package onto the add-ons list
- Restart Anki
Anki 2.0
- Go to Tools โ Add-ons โ Open add-ons folder
- Find and delete the
Puppy Reinforcement.py file if it already exists.
- See if you can find a
puppy_reinforcement folder. If so:
- If the folder contains a
meta.json file, copy the file to a safe location. This will allow you to preserve your current settings.
- Proceed to delete the
puppy_reinforcement folder
- Download and extract the latest Anki 2.0 add-on release from the releases tab (you might need to click on Assets below the description to reveal the download links)
- Move the extracted
Puppy Reinforcement.py and puppy_reinforcement into the add-ons folder
- Optional: Place the
meta.json file back into the directory if you created a copy beforehand.
- Restart Anki
Documentation
For further information on the use of this add-on please check out the description text for AnkiWeb.
Building
With Anki add-on builder installed:
git clone https://github.com/glutanimate/puppy-reinforcement.git
cd puppy-reinforcement
aab build
For more information on the build process please refer to aab's documentation.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please review the contribution guidelines on how to:
- Report issues
- File pull requests
- Support the project as a non-developer
License and Credits
Puppy Reinforcement is Copyright ยฉ 2016-2020 Aristotelis P. (Glutanimate)
With code contributions from: @zjosua (thanks!)
Puppy Reinforcement is free and open-source software. The add-on code that runs within Anki is released under the GNU AGPLv3 license, extended by a number of additional terms. For more information please see the LICENSE file that accompanied this program.
Please note that this program uses the Libaddon library which comes with its own additional terms extending the GNU AGPLv3 license. You may only copy, distribute, or modify the present compilation of this program with Libaddon under the combined licensing terms specified by both licenses.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
The continued development of this add-on is made possible
thanks to my
Patreon and
Ko-Fi supporters.
You guys rock โค๏ธ !