anki-time-to-recall

Anki’s revision log, the table that records every review’s metadata, has a time field which presently measures the time between initially viewing a prompt and answering it (pressing “hard”, “good”, “easy”). This presents a problem when analysing a card’s efficacy as there’s often a non-deterministic difference between the time-to-recall (viewing a card then pressing “show answer”) and the time-to-answer (viewing a card, pressing “show answer”, then choosing an interval).

This plugin makes the revlog.time field measure time to recall instead.

Warning: This plugin will irrevocably—and discontinuously—affect the total study time and average answer time statistics, as they both derive from this field.

Installation

AnkiWeb

Install from AnkiWeb.

Manual

1. Download the latest release from here.
2. Open the time-to-recall_v….ankiaddon in Anki's “install plugin from file” dropdown.
3. Restart Anki.

From source

1. Make a new directory for the plugin in Anki's addons21 folder.

   mkdir $ANKI_DIRECTORY/addons21/time_to_recall

2. Copy over the src/__init__.py file.

   cp src/__init__.py $ANKI_DIRECTORY/addons21/time_to_recall

3. Restart Anki.