gmcmanus/anki-roam-import

False positives

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houshuang commented

Attached is a deck of cards generated by my Roam db. Tons of false positives - things like documenting Roam syntax, queries, Latex fragments etc. The safest might be to try to choose another syntax which is not widely used... Not easy in practice. One idea I had was << >> ...
Selected Notes.apkg.zip

gmcmanus commented

I agree it's annoying for this add-on to import notes you didn't intend to be notes. Note that you can delete the unwanted notes from Anki after import - even if you import your entire Roam database again, it shouldn't import the unwanted notes twice (the add-on remembers what it imported already). This means each false positive you only need to delete once.

Looking at the examples, I see false positives in these categories which I think I can filter out:

  • LaTeX ($$)
  • Roam commands like :hiccup, :q
  • curly brackets in code (single and triple backticks)
  • single curly brackets inside double curly brackets like: {{query: {and: [[TODO]]}}}
  • opening single curly bracket but closing double curly brackets (e.g. { {count}} - for documenting Roam syntax)

There were also some false positives from copy-pasted HTML which I don't think will be easy to filter out.

Also, I much prefer {this} to <<this>> because if you select some text in Roam and then press the { key it wraps the text in curly brackets, but this doesn't work when pressing the < key. Does this make a difference to you?

gmcmanus commented

The bullet points listed above should all be fixed in the latest version. Let me know if there are any other issues.