Anki is very powerful, but indeed that makes it a bit complicated to start with. However, once you get your note types created, which requires HTML notation, y

Anki is very powerful, but indeed that makes it a bit complicated to start with. However, once you get your note types created, which requires HTML notation, you mostly just have to create content. I mostly learned how to do that by downloading community decks and checking out how they did it, and combining the ideas myself. I create all my cards using Libreoffice Calc and saving as a csv file, then importing to Anki. Each column of the csv has a corresponding field on the note type. Sometimes I use Perl programs to generate huge csv files from source materials, automating most of the creation of decks, and I convinced my language tutor to give me example phrases in Excel format instead of Word to easily import on Anki. I think one of the most used alternative to Anki is Mnemosine, you can check it out, maybe it fits you better.