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[[http://melpa.org/#/anki-editor ][file:http://melpa.org/packages/anki-editor-badge.svg ]]
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anki-editor -- An Emacs minor mode for making Anki cards with Org
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/Since I'm not a native English speaker, feel free to correct me if
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there are any ambiguity or grammatical mistakes ;-)/
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* Installation
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*Requirements*
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- [[https://github.com/FooSoft/anki-connect#installation ][AnkiConnect ]],
an Anki add-on required by this package to interact with Anki
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- curl
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If you have [[http://melpa.org/ ][MELPA ]] in your ~package-archives~ ,
just ~M-x package-install RET anki-editor RET~ , or install it
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manually by downloading and visiting [[./anki-editor.el ][anki-editor.el ]] in your
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emacs buffer, and ~M-x package-install-from-buffer RET~ .
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* Usage
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** The Layout of Notes
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The power of this mode comes from the builtin HTML export backend
provided by Org, which enables you to use almost all the Org
constructs for writing Anki notes: lists, code blocks, tables,
latex and so on.
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The structure of a note is as follows, which is inspired by
~org-drill~ . Check out [[./examples.org ][examples.org ]] for more examples.
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#+BEGIN_SRC org
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,* Raining :vocab:idioms:
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:PROPERTIES:
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:ANKI_DECK: English
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:ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Basic (and reversed card)
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:ANKI_TAGS: vocab idioms
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:END:
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,** Front
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(it's) raining cats and dogs
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,** Back
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it's raining very hard
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#+END_SRC
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- Anki deck is provided by ~ANKI_DECK~ property. This property is
retrieved with inheritance, that is to say, it can be put in any
ancestor entries or at top of the file by ~#+PROPERTY: ANKI_DECK
DeckName~.
- ~ANKI_NOTE_TYPE~ property is to specify the Anki note type of a
note and is also required for identifying an Anki note entry.
- Anki tags can be provided in two ways:
1. With a ~ANKI_TAGS~ property, multiple tags are separated by spaces
2. With Org tags [fn: 1 ] , this could be turned off if you would
like to keep Org tags separated from Anki tags
- Child entries of a note entry are fields.
Typing all these information by hand could be inefficient and prone
to errors, so this package provides an interactive command
~anki-editor-insert-note~ to help with this and hooks up
auto-completions for decks, note types and tags etc.
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** Commands
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| Command | Description |
|------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| anki-editor-mode | Toggle this minor mode. |
| anki-editor-push-notes | Push notes to Anki. Additional arguments can be used to restrict the range of notes. |
| anki-editor-push-new-notes | Similar to ~anki-editor-push-notes~, but push those that are without ~ANKI_NOTE_ID~. |
| anki-editor-retry-failed-notes | Similar to ~anki-editor-push-notes~, except that it only pushes notes with ~ANKI_FAILURE_REASON~. |
| anki-editor-insert-note | Insert a note entry like ~M-RET~, interactively. When note heading is not provided or is blank, it's used as the first field. |
| anki-editor-delete-notes | Delete notes or the note at point. |
| anki-editor-cloze-dwim | Cloze current active region or a word the under the cursor. |
| anki-editor-export-subtree-to-html | Export the subtree at point to HTML. |
| anki-editor-convert-region-to-html | Convert and replace region to HTML. |
| anki-editor-api-check | Check if correct version of AnkiConnect is running. |
| anki-editor-sync-collections | Synchronize your local anki collection. |
| anki-editor-gui-browse | Open Anki Browser with a query for current note or deck. |
| anki-editor-gui-add-cards | Open Anki Add Cards dialog with presets from current note entry. |
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** Variables
| Name | Default Value | Description |
|-----------------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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| anki-editor-api-host | "127.0.0.1" | The network address AnkiConnect is listening. |
| anki-editor-api-port | "8765" | The port number AnkiConnect is listening. |
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| anki-editor-break-consecutive-braces-in-latex | nil | If non-nil, consecutive "}" will be automatically separated by spaces to prevent early-closing of cloze. |
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| anki-editor-ignored-org-tags | '("export" "noexport") | A list of Org tags that are ignored when constructing notes form entries. |
| anki-editor-org-tags-as-anki-tags | t | If nil, tags of entries wont't be counted as Anki tags. |
| anki-editor-protected-tags | '("marked" "leech") | A list of tags that won't be deleted from Anki even though they're absent in Org entries. |
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| anki-editor-latex-style | builtin | The style of latex to translate into. |
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| anki-editor-include-default-style | t | Wheter or not to include `org-html-style-default' when using `anki-editor-copy-styles'. |
| anki-editor-html-head | nil | Additional html tags to append to card stylings when using `anki-editor-copy-styles'. |
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| anki-editor-note-match | nil | Additional matching string for mapping through anki note headings. |
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** Functions and Macros
*** anki-editor-map-note-entries
Simple wrapper that calls ~org-map-entries~ with
~&ANKI_NOTE_TYPE<>\"\"~ appended to MATCH.
*** anki-editor-api-call
Invoke AnkiConnect with ACTION and PARAMS.
*** anki-editor-api-call-result
Calls above, returns result field or raise an error.
*** anki-editor-api-with-multi
Used in combination with ~anki-editor-api-enqueue~ to queue
multiple api calls and combine them into one 'multi' call at the
end, return the results of these calls in the same order.
Usage:
#+begin_src elisp
(cl-destructuring-bind (decks models tags notes)
(anki-editor-api-with-multi
;; The following api calls will be combined into one 'multi' call.
(anki-editor-api-enqueue 'deckNames)
(anki-editor-api-enqueue 'modelNames)
(anki-editor-api-enqueue 'getTags)
(anki-editor-api-enqueue 'findNotes :query "deck:Default"))
(message (concat "decks: %S\n"
"models: %S\n"
"tags: %S\n"
"notes: %S")
decks models tags notes))
#+end_src
*** anki-editor-api-enqueue
Like ~anki-editor-api-call~ , but is only used in combination with
~anki-editor-api-with-multi~ . Instead of sending the request
directly, it simply queues the request.
*** anki-editor-note-at-point
Make a note struct from current entry.
*** anki-editor-find-notes
Find notes with QUERY.
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*** anki-editor-copy-styles
Copy `org-html-style-default' and `anki-editor-html-head' to Anki card stylings.
*** anki-editor-remove-styles
Remove from card stylings html tags generated by this mode.
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* Limitations
** Tags between Anki and Org
Because the set of characters allowed in tags is different between
Anki and Org, you have to make sure that tags from Anki are
compatible with Org and tags in Org could be recognized by Anki.
** Working with Anki add-ons
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This package might not work well with certain Anki add-ons
especially those who extend the builtin Anki note editor to
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automatically fill note field content (e.g. ~Add note id~ ).
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* Demo
[[./demo.gif ]]
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* Donation
This package was a set of utilities in my personal =.emacs= , then I
thought it might be helpful to others, so I decided to make it a
package and share with you guys. Since then I have been devoting
part of my free time to the maintenance of this package.
Donation is not required, but if you like my work and want to show
your appreciation you can donate via
[[https://paypal.me/louietanlei ][PayPal ]], every cent is
appreciated, thanks for your support :)
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[fn:1] It should be noted that Org only allows letters, numbers, =_=
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and ~@~ in a tag but Anki allows more, so you may have to edit you
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Anki tags before they can be used in Org without any surprise.
