org-anki

Minor mode to synchronize your org-mode entries to Anki.

Works via AnkiConnect add-on to Anki.[fn:1]

Creates “Basic” type of cords, heading of org entry is set as front, text content until next heading is set as back[fn:2]. See sample.org for how it looks like after all entries are synced to Anki.

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_ID property

Setup

• Start Anki with AnkiConnect installed
• Add #+ANKI_DECK: my-target-deck to top of the .org file
• Run anki-sync-entry on 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 anki-sync-entry to a key sequence, but not 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:3], so no spaced repetition from your phone or web.

Todo

• [ ] convert title and content to html when uploading
• [ ] target deck: read target deck name until found from
  1. entry property
  2. global property
  3. customized variable (i.e in .emacs)
  4. library default
• [ ] anki-sync-buffer: adds or updates all entries to Anki;
• [ ] anki-delete-buffer: deletes all entries from Anki which have ANKI_NOTE_ID property;

Footnotes

[fn:1] AnkiConnect starts a HTTP server on localhost:8765 which the current package talks to.

[fn:2] Even if the next heading is a sub-heading (you probably don’t want subheadings in card contents anyway).

[fn:3] I mean, do you really want to use thes just to use Anki?? :p