CrowdAnki VS genanki

There's no easy way as of yet. The deck Ultimate Geography is made using CrowdAnki

You should take a look at this AddOn: https://github.com/Stvad/CrowdAnki

The collaboration is based on Github and the plugin CrowdAnki (Which I think is amazing).

There's a serious need for tools to collaboratively build community flash cards. See /r/medicalschoolanki. However the tools they have aren't great - right now they have to collect eratta in a literal google spreadsheet. There's no native way to sync changes from a master deck to any "follower" decks. I believe that Anking is also working on this problem by building a very fancy website and plugin, ETA sometime this year I think. However even with this solution, you are required to use that deck's notes and note types. You can customize it after downloading the update, but any subsequent updates will overwrite your customizations. There are custom fields that are intended to be customized by users, but now you're stuck on that note type. Also, every deck change has to go through some central committee, and I'm trying to build something more decentralized. I'm gonna assume that Anking doesn't really want to maintain a language learning deck. With my thing, anyone can publish any deck/card, and anyone can subscribe to it, receive notifications upon updates, and be able to merge changes without overwriting their customizations. (Or, if they do, it's easily undo-able. Yay event sourcing.) There are other ways to collaboratively build decks like CrowdAnki, but it means that people have to learn git. That's kinda a nonstarter. Also with Anki, you have to share decks, not cards.

However it isn't as powerful as what you're asking for. If you're looking for source control, this exists: https://github.com/Stvad/CrowdAnki

That's a pretty good idea. It's basically taking https://github.com/Stvad/CrowdAnki and giving it a better UI.

The templates included are more than just the ones that are shown. To use them, you simply have to get the deck, which you can either download from AnkiWeb, this is easier but might also be outdated, or you can use the CrowdAnki add-on and import straight from the GitHub repo of this project.

How do you make these and have you considered using something like crowdanki to host these on github? Based on your other comments it seems like you're relying on translators, which makes me think having some sort of verison control would be good. Similarly, it would let people make extended versions just by forking. You could also show the languages you're developing.

take a look at CrowdAnki

I'm working with ChatGPT to create python scripts that generate Anki decks with Genanki.

Use genanki to create a note for each street, and then two cards (name, direction -> gif, and gif -> name, direction) for each note.

Anki has many types of cards, the main ones being the basic (memory trigger + answer) and cloze (one or more memory triggers embedded in an outline). This example uses the basic and reversed card, because both the 'question' and 'answer' can be a memory trigger for each other; if you want a simple, basic card you should consult the example at Genanki's README. I hope this script serves as at least a starting point for your own applications of programmable Anki, it is probably my main study method nowadays, and it got a whole more powerful after ChatGPT. Have fun with your coding.

If you want to do something really custom you may want to look at something like https://github.com/kerrickstaley/genanki (I haven't tried it).

Many people consider the prep time to be valuable itself as it usually involves you gaining understanding. That said, I don't really buy that argument and the vast majority of my cards these days are auto-generated using https://github.com/kerrickstaley/genanki.

It makes use of these frequency lists (have to be manually downloaded). It will make a request to the tatoeba api to grab a sentence (or multiple) including this word and if you would like it will also request an audio file from google translate (while the code is running a temporary recordings folder is created). It then packages it up into an anki deck using the genanki python module.

In the end I feed the data together with audio to another script that generate the Anki deck using genanki.

Yes, it's actually pretty easy to automate the process with genanki.

Since it looks like the export to Anki is still in progress, I can recommend using https://github.com/kerrickstaley/genanki -- it's been very stable over the 2 years I've been using it. I think it's a much better solution than csv or AnkiConnect, since it requires no actual work from the user except for opening an apkg.

If you're comfortable with Python, https://github.com/kerrickstaley/genanki is amazing. You can pull your content from any source, use templates for the question and answer format, and even add media to each card (image, audio).