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by DecayingOrganic 2147 days ago
I take advantage of that complexity though. For example, I practice intentional vocabulary acquisition by adding cards in my own custom note type called 'Vocab.'

I installed AnkiConnect add-on which allows me to communicate with Anki over a simple HTTP API and complimented it with a CLI tool which automatically fetches the audio or whatever is needed to fill in the fields for the card and adds it to Anki.

So all you have to do is open the terminal and write "add [word]". And the magic happens:

1. A card which the agent is prompted to pronounce the word, followed by the correct pronunciation.

2. A card which the agent is prompted to write down the word after hearing the pronunciation.

3. A card which requests a random example sentence featuring the word, served by a local server. (https://i.imgur.com/11E3IqE.png)

The last card is the most helpful, it provides comprehensible input in the form of unique sentences that uses that word, so you get acquainted with the word's collocations, the context in which it is used and etc.

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> I take advantage of that complexity though.

So do I. I suspect we're not the target users of the app then.

The target user is probably someone who'd write math equations as "a^2 + b^2 = ?" instead of learning how to use LaTeX in Anki.