Pass/Fail 2: Remove the "Easy" and "Hard" buttons

AnkiWeb addon 876946123

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Replaces Anki's four review buttons with just Fail and Pass, remapping keys 1–4 accordingly, reducing decision paralysis and optionally customizing button colors and text.
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Votes
96 (👍 93 · 👎 3)
Updated
2024-06-04
Anki versions
2.1.66~
License
GPL-3.0 (from the GitHub repository)
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Languages
Python, JSON
Description language
en

Maintenance

abandoned

  • Last update or commit: 2024-10-17 (745 days before the snapshot).
  • Commits in the last year: 0.
  • Issues: 6 open, 8 closed.
  • Pull requests: 0 open, 2 merged.
  • Median first response: 238 hours (13 answered issues and pull requests).
  • Outside pull requests: 100% of 2 merged.
  • Forks that may still be maintained: "Pass/Fail with Automatic Grading" (515261413).

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Pass/Fail 2: Remove the "Easy" and "Hard" buttons this addon original likely abandoned 17 Oct 2024 👍 93 · 👎 3 91% 34
↳ Pass/Fail with Automatic Grading (AI-detected; may be wrong) unknown abandoned 26 Feb 2024 👍 1 · 👎 0 21% 0

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Description

Supports all versions of Anki 2.1.

An addon for Anki that removes the wide spectrum of “Again”, “Easy”, “Good”, “Hard” buttons from your Anki reviews, instead choosing to offer you only two options: “Fail” and “Pass”, setting keybinds to Fail:1, Pass:2/3/4.

The goal of this addon is twofold:

  1. The wide spectrum of buttons introduces decision paralysis when reviewing. This is undesirable as when reviewing you should be thinking more about what you’re reviewing than what button to press.
  2. The “Hard” button in Anki has an effect the opposite of what you would desire – when you find something difficult, it increases the amount of time before you review it again, giving you more time to forget it. Pass/Fail 2 counters this design by simply removing the Hard button in the first place.
Intended to be used with settings from "Low-Key" Low-Key Anki, but can also be used without.

As of v0.3.0, also supports changing button colors and text.

README

#+TITLE: Pass/Fail 2

An addon for Anki that removes the wide spectrum of "Again", "Easy", "Good", "Hard" buttons from your Anki reviews, instead choosing to offer you only two options: "Fail" and "Pass", setting keybinds to Fail:1, Pass:2/3/4.

The goal of this addon is twofold:

  1. The wide spectrum of buttons introduces decision paralysis when reviewing. This is undesirable as when reviewing you should be thinking more about what you're reviewing than what button to press.
  2. The "Hard" button in Anki has an effect the opposite of what you would desire -- when you find something difficult, it increases the amount of time before you review it again, giving you more time to forget it. Pass/Fail 2 counters this design by simply removing the Hard button in the first place.

[[./images/passfail.png]]

Intended to be used with settings from [[https://refold.la/roadmap/stage-1/a/anki-setup#Low-key-Low-key-Anki]["Low-Key" Low-Key Anki]], but can also be used without.

As of v0.3.0, also supports changing button colors and text.

  • Install

** From AnkiWeb

Pass/Fail 2 can be installed from AnkiWeb [[https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/876946123][here]].

** Manually

Pass/Fail 2 can be installed manually by going to the [[https://github.com/lambdadog/passfail2/releases][Releases]] page and downloading the latest release's ~passfail2-.ankiaddon~ file, then navigating to ~Tools > Addons~ in Anki and clicking "Install From File". You should then select the passfail2 anki addon file in your Downloads folder and restart Anki.

Please keep in mind that if the addon updates, manual installs will need to be updated as well.

  • Development

The simplest way to develop on this addon is to ~git clone~ this a fork of this repository into your Anki addons folder.

On Linux this folder is ~$HOME/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/~ for Anki 2.1.x, so you would click the fork button in the top-right corner of the page then do the following.

#+BEGIN_SRC $ cd ~/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/ $ git clone https://github.com//passfail2 #+END_SRC

Then you can proceed with modifying the addon within this folder. Note that you'll need to restart Anki every time you make changes.

  • License

Pass/Fail 2 is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 3 or later. See [[./LICENSE]] for more info.