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1. Introduction: I was in hospital, but I was doing OK. I was waiting on the doctors to let me know what was happening next. So I had some time on my hands. While I waited I went on YouTube and came across
a video that talked about a way of making Anki cards that just lets you fill in the
blanks. I thought, that's great! Now instead of
creating Anki cards by manually typing out
questions and answers, I can just copy and paste into Anki whatever
texts that I come across and blank out the parts
that I need to remember. A few days later I was back at home recovering
and started thinking, I wonder if you can do the same fill in the blank thing
with pictures in Anki, like you can do with text. So I started searching.
I searched on and off for four months until I found this app -
Anki Image Occlusion. I've liked it so much
that since finding it, I've created 3000
plus cards with it. I have used the cards I've
created to remember things like, the name of the perfume that my wife likes, keyboard shortcuts, and learnings from
YouTube videos. My hope for these videos is
that you'll be able to learn about this app and start
using it to remember more. Next step is how to
install the app, but just before that, I want
to highlight the ability to support the developer who's
created this app. You'll see how to get to this
website in the next video. Now let's get on with
how to install the app.
2. Install the image occlusion app: In this video, I'm going
to show you how to install the Image Occlusion app. This is the app here, and I'll explain how to use
it in a subsequent video. But to install it,
first, you went to open Ankidroid and tap on
the menu button here, and go to settings. Then you want to go
to advanced here and scroll down until you get
to third party API apps. When you tap on that, it'll open a webpage
with a list of a number of apps that can work
with Ankidroid or Anki on Android. Here we'll scroll down to Anki
Image Occlusion here. Tap on that, that will open another page where you
can download the app. If you scroll down, you'll see different versions of the app that
you can download. Come down here to
download the APK, which is the app file. I don't think this is available in Google Play at the moment, but this is where I've
downloaded it from before. Click on Download APK. I've previously downloaded it, but I'll download it again. Then I'm going to click on open. Or you can navigate to your
downloads folder as well. I'm going to choose
package installer, which the inbuilt App installer. Do you want to to install this application it doesn't require
any special access. Click Install. The app's installed, then you can go ahead
and click Open. I'm going to allow Anki
Image Occlusion to access files on my device because
otherwise you can't use the app and allow Anki Image Occlusion to access existing notes cards as well as create new
ones I need to click allow to allow it
to connect to Anki. I'm going to deny this for
now because I'm not going to use it in this course. That's how you install the
Anki image occlusion app. If you have any questions
about installing the app, any issues you come across, please feel free to post your
questions in the comments. And I'll see you
in the next video.
3. Create an Image Occlusion Anki Card: In this video, I'm
gonna show how to create the image occlusion card. I've just chosen this
image of Australia as something that I might want to remember - the states of Australia. You're welcome to choose whatever
picture you want, whether it's a map
or medical picture, or any text that you find. In a subsequent video, I'm going to show the type of image occlusion
card that I make the most. But for now, I'm going to take
a screenshot of this map. What I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna scroll to where I can see
the picture nicely, but I can also see the
address bar at the top here so that I can see where
the picture has come from should I went to reference
it in the future. I'm going to take a screenshot. Then I'm going to crop
it here. Hit Save. The cropping is
an optional step. So now I'll go and open the
image occlusion app. And I'll come up to this green
square button up here. Click on that. Now I'll select this latest
screenshot that I've taken. The picture has come into
the Image Occlusion app here. Now the most basic way
to create a card and the way that I mostly do it
is just click on draw and then say I wanted
to remember that this state here is
called New South Wales, I click at the top left and then I'll click
at the bottom right, and there I've got my card. Now I've got to hit Save first. So come up here and
we'll click the tick. Once you've clicked or tapped on the tick, you'll see down the bottom
here it's got one card added. So now we can go into Anki. By default, the card
will have come into this Anki Image
Occlusion deck. But because I've got other
cards in there at the moment, I'll go to the browser
to show that card. And then I'll go Preview, and there's the card there. So I can click on Show answer I can guess the answer
of New South Wales and there's the card created
and it's ready to study. I will go back and show you the card in the actual
review panel and here it is. Click Show answer. New South Wales. Yes, I got that right. Easy. Tap on that. And that's how you create a card
in the image occlusion app. So, any questions put them in the comments, and in the next video, I'll be looking at tips and best practices for creating
Image Occlusion cards.
4. Tips and best practices: This video is going to
be about some tips and best practices when creating
Image Occlusion cards. So in this example here, I've created a
rectangle that just covers the label of one state, which is fine if somebody
shows you a map and asks you, what's the name of the state that's here,
shape like this. This card will enable
you to remember that. What if somebody says, What are the names of all of the states and
territories in Australia? So the theory is, is that
the bigger the rectangle, the more you'll be
able to remember, the smaller the rectangle, the less you remember. But in some cases, you only need to
remember one thing. So if this is the only state
that you need to remember, then by all means make the rectangle this
small or this size. But if you need to remember all of the states and
territories and Australia, then when you create
the rectangle, you should click or tap up here. Click or tap down there. And when this card
comes up for review, you learn the market, right? If you can remember, all of the states and
territories in Australia. So that's tip number one
is change the size of the rectangle depending on how much information you
will need to remember. Tip number two is to
leave the trigger or the question on occluded. That is to say it another way. Occlude the answer,
not the question. So in this example, I'm going to put this
metacarpals image into a image occlusion card. So if the question is, what is the order
of the metacarpals? We went to leave the
question or trigger and occluded and we went
to occlude the answer. So the answer is 12345. So we occlude the answer. And we leave the question or
the trigger and occluded. So we're looking at somebody's
hand and the question is what what is the number of
numbering of these bones? We've left the
trigger and occluded. And we've occluded the answer. However, in this case, we might have the question
go the other way as well. Somebody might ask us, which is the first metacarpal. So in this case we actually want to leave the question
and occluded, which is this one here? This is the question here. Well, the trigger and then we
want to occlude the rest of the image so that we can
make sure that we remember, which has the first
metacarpal is around. Is that the thumb or
the little finger? Then in this image here, we could even make a third card. We could cover up or occlude the name of these bones so that
when somebody says, What are the names
of the finger bones, these ones in green here, then we can use this card to remember the name metacarpal. So that's the second tip. Leave the question or trigger and occluded and
occlude the answer. The best practice for
me is to crop the image before you put it into Image
Occlusion app or afterwards. The reason being is that if you don't crop the image, e.g. this picture here, if
I take a screenshot of this and put it into the
Image Occlusion app. I might want to be
able to remember how to describe the
two bones there. When I go to review
the card in inky? Yes, I'll have this card that
prompts me to remember how to describe these two bones perhaps which one's thicker,
which one's thinner? But down the bottom here, I've got this chopped off
part that in my mind I'm thinking is there
something below there that I'm supposed
to be reviewing as well? So I need to go ahead
and scroll down. No, there isn't. Okay. I'll go to show and say, Well, I've got it
right or wrong. But I'm better
than a practice in my mind is to crop
the image either before you put it into the
Image Occlusion at or after. Now show you how to
do it in the app. So once you've added your image, you click on this button here. And you can use two fingers
to zoom in and out. Drag and drop the handles there. I'm going to zoom right out. Drag this up, make it smaller so that only what I need to be reviewing is in the Anki card. Then I'm going to tap this button here again
and I'm finished. Now when I draw my rectangle to be able to
describe those bones, add the cat to Anki, going to be able
to go into Anki. Then when I come to
review that card, I can see the bottom
of the image here. I'm not thinking about whether there's anything else
I need to review for this. I know that I just need to
describe these two bones here. I can show you the answer. So that's why I crop
images so that they're not extending down past the bottom of your
inky review screen. Now the second best
practice for creating Image Occlusion cards is that you can put anything that you can see on
your phone screen into Anki. This is actually the first card that I created using the
Image Occlusion app. And it was at a time analysis, getting into Anki,
just figuring it out. And I want it to be out. Remember what the suspended
plus blank thing was? I took a screenshot of
what was on my screen. I've put it into the
Image Occlusion app. And I can now remember
that that yellow means this yellow cards here means suspended
plus buried cards. So this best-practices. Think about whatever is
on your phone screen. If you want to be
able to remember it, you can put it, you can
create an Anki card for it. Whatever you can take a
screenshot or a photo of, you can put it into Anki
in here a few examples. I've put into Anki, blog posts, articles,
instructions, websites is, I think the main thing that I have
ended up taking screenshots, I've been creating
Anki cards for. I think the reason for that is that the text is right there. You can occlude it. You don't have to
write anything, you don't have to
type anything in. Another example is a photo. You could take a photo
of whatever you want. This happens to be one of the perfumes that my wife likes. And I've got to remember
the name of the perfume. Another rectangle
there, London dream. Another example is a shortcut. What was the shortcut? To take? A screenshot. I took a screenshot of this button mapper app and then create a image
occlusion card for it. Remember that after double-tap. Here is a screenshot of
the angry droid user menu. We know as learning
a lot of this stuff. And I wanted to remember
how to configure reminders, to configure a notification, go to what deck
options I think it is. Yeah, I can remember
that now because I took a screenshot of an I create an image
occlusion card for it. So that's a few examples
of what I've created. Image Occlusion cards for. The best practice. Recommendation
here is that think about whenever you come
across on your phone screen, whatever you're reading,
whatever you're searching for an answer for. Whatever you take a photo of, you can create an
image occlusion card. And if it's already got
the text on the screen, even better, you don't have
to type it in yourself. If you've got any questions, please post them in
the comments section, and I'll see you
in the next video.
5. Next step video: The project for this course
is to upload a screenshot of an Anki card that you've created using
the image occlusion app and the first step to doing this is installing the Image
Occlusion app. So that's the next step that
I want to leave you with. Using this app means that
I don't have to type anything out when
I'm creating cards. I can take a photo of anything and I can
create an Anki card for it and be able to remember that thing that's
important to me. This is the way to
create Anki cards that I think takes the
least amount of effort. So I encourage you to go ahead and install the Image Occlusion app, It's free, and just as a reminder
of where to go next here's the first step from
the installing the app video. If you have any questions about
installing the app or how to use it, please feel free to put
them in the comments. First you want
to open AnkiDroid, and tap on the menu button
here, and go to settings. Then you want to go
to advanced here and scroll down until you get
to third party API apps. When you tap on that, it'll open a webpage
with a list of a number of apps that can work
with AnkiDroid or Anki on Android Here we'll scroll down
to Anki Image Occlusion here.
Simon Says Burrow,
