Efficiently create Anki flashcards from your notes.

I created this package to facilitate faster creation of Anki cards while I study utilizing the fantastic text editing of Emacs.

• Installation
• Usage
• Development
  • Changelog
  • What’s Next?
• Acknowledgments
• Development

• expand-region.el (link).

Recommended package:

• anki-editor While not required, this is the anki-editor package that allows the output of my package to be sent to Anki (utilizing the AnkiConnect addon).

Then put this file in your load-path, and put this in your init file:

Clone the repository.

git clone https://www.github.com/adham-omran/ankifier

Load the package.

(load! "/path/to/ankifier/ankifier.el")
(require 'ankifier)

Run one of these commands on an active region:

• ankifier-create-basic-from-region: Create Basic question(s) from active region.
• ankifier-create-cloze-from-region: Create Cloze question(s) from active region.
• ankifier-create-from-region: Parse basic and cloze questions in the active region.

Variables

• Set ankifier-insert-elsewhere to t if you want the questions to be created under a * Cards org heading (This is what I mostly do).

  The name of the heading can be modified through ankifier-cards-heading.

• Set ankifier-context-question to t if you want to use contextual questions, see examples for uses.
• Set ankifier-feedback to t if you notes you ankify to have ANKIFIED at the start of the text to indicate that this has been ankified. Useful when you return to your notes after a while and wonder if you Ankified something or not.
• ankifier-anki-cloze-note-type sets the card type for cloze cards.
• ankifier-anki-basic-note-type sets the card type for basic cards.

For a basic question, the questions must be separated by two newlines and have a single question mark to indicate the Question part and the Answer part.

For a cloze question, the sentences must be separated by two new lines.

What is Emacs?
An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.

When was Emacs 27.2 released?
Mar 25, 2021.

Emacs is an {{c1::extensible}}, {{c2::customizable}}, free/libre {{c2::text
editor::application type}} — and more.

Context: Question?
Context: Cloze.

Geography: What's the capital of France?
Paris.

Geography: {{c1::Paris}} is the capital of France.

This results in the “:” being replaced with two newline characters.

This is the config I’m using at the moment.

(setq ankifier-insert-elsewhere t
      ankifier-anki-basic-note-type "E-Basic"
      ankifier-anki-cloze-note-type "E-Cloze"
      ankifier-feedback t
      ankifier-context-question t)

• You can customize settings in the ankifier group.
• Check out Power up Anki with Emacs, Org mode, anki-editor and more for ideas about general anki-editor use and how to get code highlighting working properly.

• 1.4.2: Fix a bug where a space after :: broke cloze deletion cards.
• 1.4.1: Fix bug with multiple ‘:’ in a question for the basic card type.
• 1.4.0: Add the function ankifier-find-to-be-ankified. Remove dependency on cl-lib.
• 1.3.0: Add the function ankifier-create-from-region.
• 1.2.0: Add the ability to include feedback for ankified notes.
• 1.1.0: Add the ability to format contextual questions.
• 1.0.0: Initial release.