org-noter VS org-anki

I use org-noter: Emacs document annotator, using Org-mode.

Well, for me personally, I get a lot out of org-noter. I like to write in org-mode but frequently find my editing skills are improved by exporting it to a more "readable" format. I then like to use the specific-note function to click on the exported pdf/whatever to add highly localized notes for myself, which are collected in a bidirectionally-linked org file for later review.

An alternative is to open PDFs, from Zotero or from anywhere else, with Emacs' pdf-tools (https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools). If you annotate the pdf, those annotations are part of the pdf. And you can also use org-noter (https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter) and org-noter-pdftools (https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools; but see https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools/issues/93#issuecomment-1493314118 if you use the new org-noter from https://github.com/org-noter/org-noter).

I created a new user, did a fresh git clone https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter.gi and used use-package to install nov.el.

See the original repo, which links to a video demonstration.

There are some Emacs org-mode plugins (for example org-noter) that do exactly this. But this is just me pointing this out as something as exists, and not really a recommendation - Emacs is really intense to get into with a Steep learning curve.

Nothing special. Assuming you have org-noter installed, create your org-roam node. Then create a headline. Run M-x org-noter (or whatever shortcut you have bound this to) on the headline. Emacs will prompt you to fill in your /path/to/pdf. It creates a property to save the file and page location.

Moreover, no changes have been made for about 3 years in its github repo..

I use org-noter for emacs to do something similar to what you are wanting. But emacs isn’t for the faint hearted so probably not the best choice.

I have tried org-drill but decided against it and other Emacs options including chenyanming/anki.el, eyeinsky/org-anki, l3kn/org-fc and abo-abo/pamparam in the end. They all work as advertised and all use or a slight variation of the same SM2 algorithm used by Anki. They all use this one as it is publicly available.

Not the person you asked, but here are the repositories and some relevant posts:

https://github.com/eyeinsky/org-anki

There's org-anki that bridges cards from emacs to Anki.

Didn't try myself, but read about org-anki. It provides org-anki-import-deck and org-anki-sync-all commands to round-trip cards.

https://github.com/eyeinsky/org-anki

Write your notes to org-mode in a git repo, sync these (selectively) to Anki. No need to depend on proprietary services.