Mnestic Bridge

The companion add-on for Mnestic, a browser extension that links the question you're studying in your question bank to your own AnKing cards.

This add-on does nothing on its own. It has no interface beyond one menu. It runs a small server on 127.0.0.1 that only the extension talks to, so the extension can search your collection, show you the matching card, and add your notes to it. Everything you actually do happens in the browser.

Get the extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mnestic/mdjekpfeinjdgkjbeaffbpfhodofhfhd

Setting it up

1. Install this add-on and restart Anki.
2. Tools > Mnestic Bridge > Pairing code... (it copies to your clipboard).
3. Paste it into the extension's popup. Done.

Every request needs that code, and requests coming from a website are refused outright.

The Tools menu

• Pairing code... - shows and copies your code.
• Issue a new pairing code... - replaces it, if it ever leaks.
• Status and deck check... - version, profile, and how many of your notes carry UWorld tags per step. The fastest way to tell whether a question isn't matching because of your deck.

What it can do

Search your notes, read a note's fields and tags, read card stats and maturity, list decks, read and write media, open Anki's Browse window (and bring it to the front), add tags, append to a field, create or copy a note, move cards into a deck, create a deck, unsuspend, re-suspend the cards a save unsuspended (when you undo it), and build a filtered deck.

What it will not do

• It will not delete your cards. There is exactly one delete operation. It exists so the extension can undo a "make a copy" save, and it refuses any note that is not a copy Mnestic itself created - the note must carry Mnestic's own marker tag and must not be AnkiHub-managed.
• It will not remove tags that aren't its own. Only tags under Mnestic::. Nothing can strip marked, leech, an AnKing tag, or the AnkiHub_Protect::Missed_Questions tag that stops a deck update overwriting notes you typed.
• It will not talk to the internet. Loopback only. No server, no account, no telemetry.

Those limits live in the add-on rather than in the extension that calls it, because the add-on is what a request actually reaches.

Notes

• Change the port under Tools > Add-ons > Mnestic Bridge > Config if 8790 is taken, and set the same port in the extension.
• Update the add-on and the extension together - the extension calls operations that only newer add-ons have. It degrades with a message rather than failing silently, but you want the pair.

Guide: https://github.com/KhaledMD4321/mnestic/blob/main/docs/addon-guide.md Source: https://github.com/KhaledMD4321/mnestic

Open source under the GNU GPL v3. Free, no ads, no paid tier. If it helps you: https://buymeacoffee.com/bnkhaled

An independent project. Not affiliated with Anki, AnKing, or any question bank.

Support: https://github.com/KhaledMD4321/mnestic/issues

**Supported Anki versions:** leave as-is unless you have tested a narrower range.
Tested on Anki 26.09.