markdown-anki-decks VS mdanki

oh and one last thing. this issue which was opened on my project has a great list of features people seem to like in these tools. Might be a useful list!

Thank you for the compliment! You're clearly the resident expert in this area! I do think bidirectional syncing would be very cool but personally I'm happy with managing my cards completely in markdown. Unless other people really want that feature it sounds like it would be a lot of work and there might be more interesting or exciting features you could implement as an alternative. How do you manage mapping from markdown to anki currently? I use a hash of the deck title and the question text. Obviously this means you lose progress on a card if you change the question or the deck title. Wondering if you have a better solution.

I’ve recently had a go at writing loads of card in MarkDown and then converted them to Anki using “mdanki”: https://github.com/ashlinchak/mdanki

I have seen markdown parser tools and add-ons, eg * https://github.com/ashlinchak/mdanki * https://github.com/benwr/ankdown * https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2141874715

I've also created a similar tool using python. Markdown anki decks. It uses similar syntax to your tool. I've used it to create several hundred cards and it's quite convenient. One issue with mdanki is reimporting the same apkg creates duplicates. This basically makes mdanki useless since you can't track progress on cards you've created with markdown. Markdown-anki-decks gets around this by uniquely generating a hash for each question and using that as the unique id for the card. The limitation is if the question changes you lose progress but that seems reasonable. Markdown anki decks also handles some more advanced features of anki such as clozes. Lastly my tool can communicate with anki-connect which makes importing decks automatic. Anyway happy to see other people working on this. Just want to give you some sense of the features I've found useful.