This is an Anki plugin that can synchronize an Airtable to Anki. At the end of the day, Anki is just a flash-card frontend to a database. Why not use Airtable as that database? Airtable is much nicer to use as a database, and makes the data searchable outside of Anki.
I use this to organize and memorize things like the trees and flowers of Ontario, cheeses from around the world, macronutrients of various foods, how to make cocktails and learning new words.
Let's say you're dying to learn when all produce is in season to impress your friends and own the local farmer's market. While you're at it, why not learn the origin of all these vegetables too? 🍅 🌽 🍆 🍎
Having all that information is great. But you really want to have a full overview of all produce by season, and not just have it in your head. Airtable is fantastic for this!
Okay, so you spent the entire afternoon typing in all the produce that grows near you:
This is awesome. You've created some super complicated views in Airtable where you filter your recipes by seasonality, so it won't show you asparagus recipes in the winter, or butternut squash in the spring. Sick.
But back to learning this by heart. You want this table in your head. Unfortunately, Airtable doesn't have a brain interface and this is likely not happening anytime soon. Your best bet to learn this by heart so you can spot the seasonal restaurants and impress your local chefs are flash cards. Basically, you want to learn this table by heart.
This is where Airtable Anki wins. You install the extension by throwing
airtable.py in your Anki addon directory, located in
~/Documents/Anki/addons. Put settings.json in that directory as well. A
quick command that'll work for most (you may have to adjust the username, but
default is User 1):
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sirupsen/anki-airtable/master/airtable.py \
-o ~/Documents/Anki/User\ 1/addons/airtable.py
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sirupsen/anki-airtable/master/settings.example.json \
-o ~/Documents/Anki/User\ 1/addons/settings.jsonThen open settings.json with an editor and configure it:
{
"key": "your api key from api.airtable.com",
"media_path": "/Users/YOUR NAME/Documents/Anki/YOUR ANKI NAME/collection.media/{}",
"tables": [
{
"anki_deck": "NerdCooking",
"anki_model": "Produce",
"airtable_table": "Produce",
"airtable_view": "All",
"airtable_key": "base key from api.airtable.com"
}
]This extension will automatically create a "Produce" model if it doesn't exist, but there will be no cards. You can also create the model yourself beforehand with all the fields you'd like to include from the Airtable records.
Note that Anki will NOT import Airtable records that don't generate any cards, so you'll have to restart Anki after creating cards for your new model, whether or not it was created manually or with Airtable Anki.
Once you've created some cards for the new model, you'll see some brand new cards:
There's bound to be many.. this doesn't use any proper Airtable client for Python because dependencies are hard in Anki and I don't know anything about Anki. To my knowledge no-one but me is using this. If you use it or have trouble getting it running, let me know!
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