flashcards-obsidian VS Polar Bookshelf

There's an Obsidian plugin for Anki -- https://github.com/reuseman/flashcards-obsidian

It connects with your Anki desktop app. You create notes in Obsidian in a specific format, and they get converted to Anki flashcards. This way your flashcard creation process becomes much easier if you already use Obsidian for note-taking.

I want to create something like flashcard. Not like the usual flashcard with single line question and answer. I have already tried the famous plugins like obsidian-spaced-repetition, obsidian-recall and flashcards-obsidian. But all of them are designed to have multiple flashcards in a single note. Though spaced repetition plugin display my files, everything below white lines are discarded. Im looking for a solution where i can use my existing atomic notes as flashcards. Title of the note should be in the front side of the card and content in the back side. And it should use a similar algorithm and interface used by plugins like spaced repetition. obsidian-smart-random-note This is the only plugin close to what im looking. Unfortunately, it doesn't support Anki algorithm. How can i configure my atomic notes to be severed as flashcards?

I've personally settled on obsidian-flashcards as it allows me to write notes using standard syntax without too much extra markup, but the downside is that it litters block anchors all over the place and once in a while I'll trigger a bug that requires using the console to resolve. Major respect to all the plugin authors that open sourced their hard work -- I just wish that the overall flashcard experience was a bit more polished.

It would be nice to have a comparison between your project and obsidian-flashcards. The latter looks semi-abandoned on github, so you have a good chance to become the de-facto standard on obsidian if you can reach feature parity and have a relatively painless conversion. For example, I have some decks built with flashcards-obsidian. I would happily switch to your tool if it was better but I don't want to spend too much time converting my cards to a new format.

I'm not sure what you mean, but here's the link to the plugin: https://github.com/reuseman/flashcards-obsidian/wiki You can see the examples there and see if it's something you'd want to try.

Isn't this what the Obsidian Flashcards plug-in does?

I use this plugin: https://github.com/reuseman/flashcards-obsidian

I would suggest the flashcards plugin. It integrates with Anki, which is a great tool for spaced repetition.

Its creator planned once to make it properly selfhostable before making it kinda proprietary I think. Maybe you could ask him again about polar-bookshelf and his plans to make it fully selfhostable.

book annotations: polar (integrates well with SRS)

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” -- Francis Bacon

Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book provides a decent framework for dealing with the variety of books out there. There are also tools like Polar[1] that provide an easy way to do incremental reading[2] which may help when attacking a book piece by relevant piece.

[1] https://getpolarized.io/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_reading