• Requirements
• Usage
  • Installation
  • The Syntax
  • Command Cheatsheet
• Demo

anki-editor – an Emacs package that helps you create Anki cards in Org-mode

Requirements

• anki-connect, an Anki add-on required by this package to interact with Anki.
• curl

Usage

Installation

• Clone this repo and add the directory to your Emacs' load-path, then (require 'anki-editor).
• Or if you use package.el, just download anki-editor.el and visit it in Emacs, then M-x package-install-file.

The Syntax

Now you can compose Anki notes in Org syntax, e.g. lists, code blocks, tables, latex fragments / environments, 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 the Anki style.

The structure of contents is as follow, which is inspired by org-drill. See examples.org for reference.

* English                                           :deck:
** Vocabulary
*** Item                                            :note:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :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

• Headings of deck are tagged with deck
• Headings of note are tagged with note
• Levels are not significant, but note headings must be descendents of their deck headings
• Custom properties of a note heading can be used to specify note type and tags
• Subheadings of a note heading are fields of its note type

Command Cheatsheet

Command	Keybinding	Brief Description
anki-editor-setup-default-keybindings	N/A	Set up default keybindings.
anki-editor-submit	C-c a s	Send notes in current buffer to Anki.
anki-editor-insert-deck	C-c a i d	Insert a deck heading with the same level as current heading.
anki-editor-insert-note	C-c a i n	Insert the skeleton of a note.
anki-editor-export-heading-contents-to-html	C-c a e	Export the contents of the heading at point to HTML.
anki-editor-convert-region-to-html	N/A	Convert and replace region to HTML.
anki-editor-anki-connect-upgrade	N/A	Upgrade anki-connect to the latest version.

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

Demo