genanki VS brain-brew-starter

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).

I was able to use Brain Brew https://github.com/ohare93/brain-brew/ to import my CSV (eventually). You'll need some programming knowledge (I'm new to Python but I got it working). Basic steps for me was 1) Create a deck in Anki with 1 record; 2) export it in JSON (after installing CrowdAnki); 3) use Brain Brew to convert the JSON to files in a src directory - using the starter repo was helpful https://github.com/ohare93/brain-brew-starter; 4) include the CSV file in the project; 5) use Brain Brew to convert the src files into a deck that can be uploaded (a "build"); 6) use CrowdAnki to import the newly generated build.

A cloneable repo (with instructions for how to convert it to use your own cards) is available here: https://github.com/ohare93/brain-brew-starter I believe this is now the easiest way for users to get their cards into source control, that is actually editable (not 10,000 lines of json), with the added upside of also being able to sync in both directions 🔄