[fn-mote]

> Use Anki

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.

[cheesecakegood]

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?

[BeetleB]

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!

[fragmede]

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.

[rsanek]

I rarely make cards by hand anymore. I would recommend forking something like https://github.com/jasperket/clanki and editing it (perhaps with an agent) so that it works exactly to your liking.

[golem14]

> I found creating any custom card type immediately dropped me into the bowels of CSS.

Ah, LaTeX syndrome.