AnkiWeb addon 541850746
Imports notes written in plain-text Markdown files from a chosen directory into Anki, recursively parsing records to create or update Basic and Cloze notes.
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Turns Anki into a markdown notebook where you write papers, organize them in folders, and generate Basic, reversible, and cloze cards from plain-text lines.
Imports and exports CSS and card templates for all note types via folders, with configurable delimiters, filenames, and optional global CSS handling.
Enables adding and editing Anki notes in extended CommonMark Markdown within fields or a separate window, using a CodeMirror editor with HTML conversion and configurable syntax extensions.
Batch exports Anki notes to .xlsx files organized by tag hierarchy and re-imports edits, preserving scheduling while allowing creation, modification, and deletion of cards.
Imports and exports Markdown notes as Anki cards, converting Q/A entries into basic or reversed cards and mapping folders to decks.
Imports and exports CSS and card templates for all note types, with configurable settings, last-directory memory, and common epilog support.
Create Anki notes using plain text files and Markdown, then import them directly into Anki.
This addon is designed for people who love Anki’s spaced repetition system but prefer writing and managing notes in a normal text editor instead of Anki’s built-in editor.
It enables a workflow where you:
This makes it possible to:
Anki is an excellent spaced repetition system, but creating and managing notes has several drawbacks:
.apkg format, which makes:
This addon solves those problems by allowing notes to be written in plain text files.
The addon imports notes from a directory containing text files written in a simple human-readable format.
Each file contains a list of note records.
Each record is written in Markdown, which allows:
The addon:
File astronomy.note:
!type: Basic
!deck: Astronomy
!front: The first planet from the Sun.
!back: Mercury
~~~
!front: The second planet from the Sun.
!back: Venus
~~~
!front: The largest planet in the Solar System.
!back: Jupiter
~~~
File geography.note:
!type: Cloze
!deck: Geography
!tags: Capitals
!text: The capital of {{c1::Mongolia::country}} is {{c2::Ulaanbaatar::city}}.
~~~
!text: The capital of {{c1::Syria::country}} is {{c2::Damascus::city}}.
~~~
File math.note:
!type: Basic
!deck: Math
!tags: Algebra
!front: Quadratic Formula
!back: $$ x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a} $$
~~~
!front: Euler's Formula
!back:
$$
\begin{align*}
e^{ix} &= \cos x + i \sin x \\
e^{-ix} &= \cos x - i \sin x
\end{align*}
$$
~~~
Typical workflow:
notes/
calculus.note
algebra.note
trigonometry.note
git add notes
git commit
File → Import Notatki...
The addon will parse and import everything.
To make writing notes easier, a companion VS Code extension is available.
The extension provides:
This makes writing Anki notes feel like writing documentation.
This is a collection of tools for maintaining custom collections of Anki notes in plain text files.
The tools include:
Anki is an excellent spaced repetition system, but creating and managing notes has several drawbacks:
.apkg format, which makes:
So we designed a set of tool for people who prefer writing and managing notes in a normal text editor instead of Anki’s built-in editor.
It enables a workflow where you:
This makes it possible to:
The notes are defined in a simple, human-readable text format that includes Markdown formatting and LaTeX math. Below are a few examples.
File astronomy.note:
!type: Basic
!deck: Astronomy
!front: The first planet from the Sun.
!back: Mercury
~~~
!front: The second planet from the Sun.
!back: Venus
~~~
!front: The largest planet in the Solar System.
!back: Jupiter
~~~
File geography.note:
!type: Cloze
!deck: Geography
!tags: Capitals
!text: The capital of {{c1::Mongolia::country}} is {{c2::Ulaanbaatar::city}}.
~~~
!text: The capital of {{c1::Syria::country}} is {{c2::Damascus::city}}.
~~~
File math.note:
!type: Basic
!deck: Math
!tags: Algebra
!front: Quadratic Formula
!back: $$ x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a} $$
~~~
!front: Euler's Formula
!back:
$$
\begin{align*}
e^{ix} &= \cos x + i \sin x \\
e^{-ix} &= \cos x - i \sin x
\end{align*}
$$
~~~
To simplify importing notes, we developed an Anki addon that imports all note files from a specified directory.
The addon:
To make writing notes easier, a companion VS Code extension is available.
The extension provides:
This makes writing Anki notes feel like writing documentation.
Typical workflow:
notes/
calculus.note
algebra.note
trigonometry.note
git add notes
git commit
File → Import Models and Notes...
The addon will parse and import everything.