If you don't want to maintain or publish decks, you do not need an account. The subscription key 🔑 is all you need!
The key will be a series of words separated by dashes. Example:
pip-item-hawaii-skylark-network-rugbyIf you prefer to watch a video, check out our latest Video Guide that walks you through the necessary steps to subscribe to a deck!
If you know a deck's maintainer, they can give you the subscription key to paste into AnkiCollab. If you know the deck's name, but don't know the key, go to AnkiCollab.com/Decks. On the right, you'll find a search box to help locate the deck.
Click on the deck and the subscription key will be on the top in blue. Copy it.
Open Anki.
On the toolbar, click AnkiCollab → Edit Subscriptions.
This window will show all your current subscriptions.
Add a new deck by pasting it into the box at the bottom and clicking Add Subscription.
There will be a confirmation and you can now close this window.
The deck may not show up immediately! If you don't see the deck, click the Deck button at the top of the main Anki page to refresh 🔄 the view.
If you see the title of the deck pop up, you are ready to start reviewing! 👍
Not every Anki deck is perfect — typos, content errors, strange formatting, or other issues might pop up. There might even be some errors in this very document that will get changed in the future!
One huge strength of AnkiCollab is the ability to let the maintainer know that there might be an issue with a deck.
⚠ In this section, we'll be showing how to change a card's content within the fields, but the process is identical for tags.
Let's say you subscribe to a deck and find this card:
Sure, elephants 🐘 are big, but you know that the biggest animal in the world is actually a Blue Whale 🐳.
After double-checking that you're correct, change the word Elephant to Blue Whale in the same manner you would edit a normal card.
Once you've edited the card, click the AnkiCollab button.
A small window will pop up and ask you to choose a rationale for making this change.
In our case, let's choose Content Error. Next, click OK.
You've now submitted your first change!
From the maintainer's point of view, they'll see a window like this:
This page tells the maintainer what exactly was changed and why.
From here, they can approve or reject your suggestion. If approved, everyone who subscribed to this deck will receive an update with your change.
You are now ready to go into the AnkiCollab world and improve decks! 👍
Some decks on AnkiCollab are unfinished, looking for people to contribute and finish them. In this case, you don't want to be editing cards, but adding new ones.
Let's say you subscribed to a Flower Identification deck, but they're missing the California Poppy. When adding the card, all you have to do is check the Suggest on AnkiCollab button toward the bottom.
Now you just need to wait for the maintainer to approve your card!