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Anki is great for studying, but the card creation experience sucks. To be specific: I found creating any custom card type immediately dropped me into the bowels of CSS. It felt like writing HTML by hand.
Is there any facility for re-using shared pieces?
I felt like it needed a static site generator type tool to move up a layer of abstraction and reduce the copying of chunks into my card. Is there one? Please mention if so.
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Write a tool to reduce the friction.
I use an Emacs based SRS tool. I have a capture template to quickly make a card.
For anything tedious, it's critical to reduce the friction!
> I found creating any custom card type immediately dropped me into the bowels of CSS.
Ah, LaTeX syndrome.
It's rather nerdy, but QuickTurtle9 released mdfc on GitHub, https://github.com/bttger/markdown-flashcards a couple of years ago
Using that as the input file format standard, AI can generate what you're looking for, Android app, Webapp, iOS app, pdf.
I really never thought it would come up in a HN thread but I’m actually working on a modified version of Anki as a personal project (not quite ready yet though, but will open source probably in a few weeks) where improving the editing/curating/creating experience is a big focus. I’m trying to make it markdown-based too.
Just to pick your brain real fast, when creating new cards (from scratch?) what would a better experience look like for you?