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anki-editor – An Emacs minor mode for making Anki cards with Org
Since I'm not a native English speaker, feel free to correct me if there are any ambiguity or grammatical mistakes ;-)
Installation
Requirements
- AnkiConnect, an Anki add-on required by this package to interact with Anki
- curl
If you have MELPA in your package-archives,
just M-x package-install RET anki-editor RET, or install it
manually by downloading and visiting anki-editor.el in your
emacs buffer, and M-x package-install-from-buffer RET.
Usage
The Layout of Notes
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.
The structure of a note is as follows, which is inspired by
org-drill. Check out examples.org for more examples.
* Raining :vocab:idioms:
:PROPERTIES:
:ANKI_DECK: English
:ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Basic (and reversed card)
:ANKI_TAGS: vocab idioms
:END:
** Front
(it's) raining cats and dogs
** Back
it's raining very hard- Anki deck is provided by
ANKI_DECKproperty. 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_TYPEproperty 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:
- With a
ANKI_TAGSproperty, multiple tags are separated by spaces - With Org tags 1, this could be turned off if you would like to keep Org tags separated from Anki tags
- With a
- 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.
Commands
| 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. |
| 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-api-upgrade | Upgrade AnkiConnect. |
| 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. |
Variables
| Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| anki-editor-break-consecutive-braces-in-latex | nil | If non-nil, consecutive `}' will be automatically separated by spaces to prevent early-closing of cloze. |
| 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. |
| anki-editor-latex-style | builtin | The style of latex to translate into. |
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:
(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))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.
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
This package might not work well with certain Anki add-ons
especially those who extend the builtin Anki note editor to
automatically fill note field content (e.g. Add note id).
Demo
It should be noted that Org only allows letters, numbers, _
and @ in a tag but Anki allows more, so you may have to edit you
Anki tags before they can be used in Org without any surprise.