anki-editor/README.org

• Installation
• Usage
  • The Layout of Notes
  • Commands
• Demo

anki-editor – Emacs minor mode for making Anki cards with Org

Installation

Requirements

• anki-connect, 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

Now you can compose Anki notes in Org syntax, e.g. lists, code examples, tables, embedded latex, when being submitted to Anki, they will be converted to HTML by Org-mode's HTML backend with specific markers (e.g. latex) translated to Anki style.

The structure of a note is as follow, which is inspired by org-drill. More examples can be found in examples.org.

  * Idiom                                                        :vocab:idioms:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :ANKI_DECK: English
    :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Basic (and reversed card)
    :END:
  ** Front
     (it's) raining cats and dogs
  ** Back
     it's raining very hard

• An Anki note is an Org entry with ANKI_NOTE_TYPE property
• Anki tags are just Org tags ¹

• Other necessary information (e.g. deck, note type) of a note is put in the property drawer of the entry

  • As the value of ANKI_DECK is retrieved with inheritance, you don't have to set it per note, instead, you could create a deck entry with this property set and put note entries under it, or set it per file by #+PROPERTY: ANKI_DECK YourDeck
• Child entries of a note entry are fields

Commands

Command	Brief Description
anki-editor-push-notes	Push notes to Anki. Additional arguments can be used to restrict the range of notes.
anki-editor-retry-failure-notes	Same as above, except that it only pushes notes that have ANKI_FAILURE_REASON.
anki-editor-insert-note	Insert a note entry like M-RET, interactively.
anki-editor-cloze-region	Create a cloze deletion from region.
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.

Since I'm not a native English speaker, let me know if there's any ambiguity or grammatical mistakes.

Demo

v0.2.2

• Adds optional tag inheritance.
• Adds optional deck creation.
• Fixes issue #15 (url-encoded file path isn't recognized by shell commands).

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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.