AnkiWeb addon 433734108
Creates multiple notes at once from a temporary note in the add window, splitting configured question/answer fields, with optional cloze support and cross-note links.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.35 | 2.1.54+ | 2023-03-19 |
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Copies the current note's contents into a new Add window via configurable shortcuts from the Add window, Edit Current, Browser, and Reviewer, requiring add-ons that support multiple add windows.
Opens a configured external editor, such as vim or VS Code, via a customizable shortcut to edit note fields, with configurable launch commands and temporary file extension.
Moves all field contents up or down using hotkeys, with configurable step size, fixed relative positions, and optional field splitting.
Bulk-creates Anki cards from pasted text, one card per line, with deck and note type selection, delimiter splitting, tab-separated fields, tags, and optional browser display or auto-close.
Converts videos or audio with subtitles into Anki cards split by scenes or phrases, with playback, mobile export and condensed audio support.
Opens field content in a separate dialog using a customized TinyMCE editor for advanced table editing, with configurable shortcuts and optional custom CSS.
My motivation is this: When putting some text (page) into Anki I often don't know the final number and wording of my qa-pairs/clozes so I don't like to add them one after another from the regular add window - instead I like to edit and rearrange multiple qa-pairs/clozes until I like all of them and then I want to add them all at once.
I didn't find another tool that I like: There many text-based (mostly markdown) solutions but when I process a html-document I don't want to convert to plain text and back and markdown is bad when working with tables (and also not ideal for images). Then there are also add-ons that sync with Excel, Google Docs or note taking services like notion which I didn't want to use either because these external solutions usually have problems with images and usually support fewer html tags than Anki.
In the config of my add-on for each note type I can select two fields that are used for the two columns q/a. From a technical point of view I use a regular editor with a temporary note. I.e. in the Add dialog I wrapped the function that's called when the user clicks the "add" button: If the note is of a certain type (I bundle a note type named "multi_source") the note is split up and my add-on adds multiple notes. When editing multiple notes from the browser my add-on copies the relevant fields to a temporary note, opens this in an EditCurrent window and when closing the window this temporary note is split up again.
This is complicated and slightly confusing but the upside is that by reusing the existing add window/editor all the usual other add-ons and shortcuts work and I should have less work with new anki versions.
I don't want to have one note with many fields that generates many cards because then finding content is more complicated etc.
# useful add-ons to make this add-on work better
This add-on works much better if you have an add-on installed that allows you to show two fields side by side in the editor: For Anki 2.1.39 or lower use Multi-column note editor. For Anki 2.1.42 or newer use the add-on Grid Fields.
This add-on does not work with Anki 2.1.40 or 2.1.41 because neither of the two aforementioned add-ons works with these versions.
For Anki 2.1.42+ with the add-on grid fields this add-on should have setup the bundled note type multi_source properly.
Also maybe useful: editor: move field contents down by one field
# versions
- 2023-03-19 add note type with field for rescheduling (quick and ugly...)
- 2022-12-29 fix for more than 10 source fields that are numbered
- 2022-08-16 more than two fields per note can be extracted. This breaks the following functionality I rarely use: No more fields down/up/switching, you can no longer edit multiple notes from the browser in one source note. I'll fix these later. ETA: within one year.
- 2022-07-14 easily create links between notes created at the same time: e.g. qqq1 in another field gets replaced with the actual note id of the first note created from the fields q1/a1 - the reference nidd1234567890123 can be quickly opened with the add-on, link Cards Notes and Preview them in extra window.
- 2022-07-11 allow to create cloze notes if "{{c1::" is in a field that would go to the front (like q1, q2, etc.)
- 2022-03-13 initial upload