AnkiWeb addon 852190629
Adds an alternative text importer that splits notes at blank lines, placing each multi-line block in the first field, leaving the second empty, and tagging imports for easy cleanup.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
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| 2.1.1 | + | 2026-09-13 |
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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.
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.
Imports and exports Markdown notes as Anki cards, converting Q/A entries into basic or reversed cards and mapping folders to decks.
Splits a video into frames and creates cards whose front is each frame and back is the video's title, tagged videotoframes in the default deck.
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.
Enables direct in-reviewer flashcard text editing with formatting, cloze and list tools, a medical spellchecker, and image resizing, avoiding the browser or edit window.
Anki's built-in text/CSV importer splits notes strictly by line and lets you choose a fixed field separator (Tab, Comma, Semicolon, Pipe). That doesn't work well if your source text has entries that span multiple lines — for example, dictionary/idiom notes with an example sentence, a note, and a source link all under one entry.
This add-on adds a simple alternative importer:
Tools → 2-Line-Break Importer...
How it works:
Your text file is split into notes wherever there is a blank line (two or more line breaks in a row).
Everything between two blank lines — even if it spans several single-line-broken lines — is kept together as one note, placed entirely in the note's first field. Line breaks inside that block are converted to
so the formatting is preserved.
The note's second field is left empty.
You choose the target deck and note type before importing.
Imported notes are tagged 2linebreak-import so you can easily find or undo them.
Example
Input text:
Carry coal to Newcastle Doing something that's completely unnecessary. You are running the sprinkler system when it's raining? That's like carrying coal to Newcastle.
It came back to haunt me A bad decision you made earlier now has consequences.
Result: 2 notes are created — each multi-line block becomes a single note with all its lines together in the first field, and the second field empty.
Why not just use the built-in importer's Field Separator option? Anki's Import screen is a built-in web page and its delimiter list is fixed inside Anki itself — add-ons can't add a new option to that specific dropdown. This add-on instead provides its own menu entry with the exact splitting behavior described above.
Notes
Works with .txt files (UTF-8 or UTF-8 with BOM). Requires Anki 2.1.50+ (uses the modern Collection.add_note API). Free and open, no external dependencies.