Ask HN: Better way to create Anki cards?

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  • ankidown

    Easily make Anki flash cards in markdown

  • Ankidown [1] lets you create cards in Markdown using a text editor.

    [1] https://github.com/ankicommunity/ankidown/

  • genanki

    A Python 3 library for generating Anki decks

  • 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).

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  • anki-connect

    Discontinued Anki plugin to expose a remote API for creating flash cards.

  • Another tool I've used if you have the Anki app is the Anki-Connect plugin https://github.com/FooSoft/anki-connect

    It supports curl, python, javascript, etc to add cards and supports an incredible amount of actions to interact with Anki.

    Example:

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