apy VS genanki

FYI, you may be interested to know there are other alternatives. I made apy, which is a cli tool in a similar spirit to yours, except it does not rely on AnkiConnect. I've also written a section in the README where I list other similar tools.

That's reasonable. I use Vim with apy, of course, but my workflow is CLI centerred: I run the apy commands in the terminal, but for editing and adding cards, I use Vim. I believe I've described my workflow... ah, yes, here: https://github.com/lervag/apy/wiki/Vim

Since you use Vim and Anki, you may also be interested in apy. I made it to simplify creating and editing Anki cards. It relies on Markdown and makes it easy to add code snippets in questions and answers.

I've made apy to make it easier for people who like to work in a terminal and with Vim/neovim to make and maintain flashcards in Anki. I combine it with some utility functions within neovim.

Cool! I'm an avid user of neovim and Anki, and I did something similar. I created apy. It skips the Connect-plugin and manipulates the Anki database directly through the Python APIs, and it allows to modify existing cards and to add new cards by use of a simple Markdown like syntax. I wrote a little bit of how I use Vim/neovim together with apy here.

There is also apy[1] which needs an Anki installation but at least doesn't actually run the Anki process.

[1]https://github.com/lervag/apy

It does not yet, it is missing way to many features, and also it requires anki to be open. I've never tried it, but someone in the comments mentioned apy which seems to do that :)

I've developed apy out of the similar desire to build and manage my Anki decks from a CLI (without keeping Anki open in the background). But it does not allow actually reviewing the cards. Personally, I'm fine with that, since I study all my cards from my phone (Ankidroid).

Thanks, this looks interesting. Good work! In case you were not aware of it, I'll be shameless and mention my similar tool apy. Similar, but also clearly different in functionality and goal, just to make that clear.

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).