It's been a while since I've set it up, but IIRC there are pre-made decks you can download and use. Not sure if they are still out there. I think they set up all the formatting for you too.
But aside from that to my understanding, you do make the cards yourself manually. You can set the cards up however you want (what info to show on each side, etc) and there are also ways to change up the fonts/sizes.
There used to be a tool in Firefox I believe that synced up with Rikaichan (mouse over dictionary) where if you linked it up with Anki, you could add and create new cards to an Anki deck with the press of a button. Made it super fast to make and add new cards. It would make the whole card for you. However, some browser update broke it, and I didn't check if it ever got restored. It was kind of a double edged sword as the ease of using that tool made me add every unknown word I ran into, which led to inefficiencies.
I'm actually going to make a new deck for the first time in a while, so if I find anything useful, I'll post it here. I was planning on making the cards manually which would probably be a pain, but if there's a way to auto do it I'll try to find it. Like I said it's been years since I really messed with Anki.
It has a section on Anki. Not sure who made it and I didn't in depth read the whole thing, but from skimming there's some good info on there.
There's no one way to learn but you can usually glean some useful stuff from guides like this.
Thanks, I'll check this out.
Rimmer_Dall posted...
I've decided to start practicing writing, not because I particularly want to write but because I want to improve my reading speed. Today for the first time in forever I started writing the hiragana over and over again from memory, and I've also started the Kanken deck and finally learn how to write kanji (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/759825185).
I've already seen results. It's the same day and my reading speed has already improved just by writing hiragana and a few kanji. It's ridiculous.
Really need to start writing things. And not just homework or textbooks.