org-anki
Minor mode to synchronize your org-mode entries to Anki.
Works via AnkiConnect add-on to Anki.[fn:via]
How
- creates “Basic” type of cards
- heading of org entry is set as card front
- text content until next heading is set as card back[fn:how]
See example.org and the resulting screenshots for how the cards look after being synced to Anki.
Both front and back are converted to html.[fn:html-export]
Exposes these commands:
org-anki-sync-entry- adds or updates the current org-entry under cursor
org-anki-delete-entry- deletes entry from Anki. Entry must have
ANKI_NOTE_IDproperty
Setup
- Start Anki with AnkiConnect installed
- Add
#+ANKI_DECK: my-target-deckto top of the .org file- Also, make sure this deck exists
- Run
anki-sync-entryon some heading with content
Note: the card browser must be closed while synchronizing, as it won’t update the note otherwise (issue).
You probably want to bind org-anki-sync-entry to a key sequence, but not
org-anki-delete-entry – as accidentally deleting notes will become too
easy.
In any case, don’t forget to create backups, as deleting notes will lose their scheduling information.
Why
.. as there are anki-editor, pamparam, org-drill, org-fc?
Anki-editor requires subheadings for fields, so existing .org notes need to be modified to be ankified.
The other three are emacs or org-mode only[fn:others], so no spaced repetition from your phone or web.
Todo
See issues.
Footnotes
[fn:via] AnkiConnect starts a HTTP server on localhost:8765 which the current package talks to.
[fn:how] It does this even if the next heading is a sub-heading (you probably don’t want subheadings in card contents anyway).
[fn:html-export] Plain org-mode can export to html too but there didn’t appear to be a plain string-to-basic-html function.
[fn:others] I mean, do you really want to use thes just to use Anki?? :p