Minor mode to synchronize your org-mode entries to Anki.
Works via AnkiConnect add-on to Anki.[fn:via]
- 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
- Start Anki with AnkiConnect installed
- Set destination deck name, either as:
(customize-set-variable 'org-anki-default-deck "my-target-deck")in your .emacs#+ANKI_DECK: my-target-deckon top of an .org file:ANKI_DECK: my-target-deckin the properties’ drawer of the item- Note that this deck has to be present (created separately in the Anki app)
- Run
anki-sync-entryon some org item you want to sync
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.
.. as there are anki-editor, pamparam, org-drill, org-fc?
Anki-editor requires subheadings for card front and card back, thus existing .org notes need to be modified to be ankified. This package takes the heading as card front and content as card back.
The other three are emacs or org-mode only[fn:others], so no spaced repetition from your phone or web.
See issues.
[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 5439 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 this just to use Anki?? :p