I mostly a fairly basic user of Anki. Notion is my go to place to for writing, notes, etc. Reading up on the manual will help me better plan the state management of the tool.

There are bugs here and there but I feel like the Markdown support is getting there. For the CSV, I have not really used the tables so much so need to look into this in Notion.

Phonetic alphabet d15616ddd1c34a90b6e509a2c61a9dde -> Phonetic alphabet

Related-to: #16

I am experiencing issues with Imba so can't really do this yet but either way I still need to finish reading the Anki manual but will use this issue to flesh out the details.

There are primarily three main states the application can be in

0. Ready to receive local uploads
   • User picks local file
   • User cancels local upload (leaving the page, closing tab, etc.)
1. Upload in progress
   • Decks being created
   • Error app crashes and hangs
2. Exported
   • Download of zip file is produced from the decks
   • Or app hangs due to crash

So the current flow is not so robust and makes it easy to leave the user hanging. There should be better transitions between the three and proper error handling.

Follow ups

• Should we prevent user from leaving the page when upload / processing is in progress?
• If subpages are detected should we ask user if they want to create multiple decks?

Related-to: #11

See screenshots below:

The current size of the built JavaScript is 6.1M which is a lot. This is likely due to the dependencies. Would be nice to get this resolved in web pack.

In Notion you can resize images, but those fields are not available in the Markdown, IIRC.

A couple of options I am thinking of doing:

• Let the user set a default size for a cards
• See previews of the cards and be able to overwrite the size individually also
• Provide option to import via HTML which would produce exactly the same as Notion

The current default is to make it a heading one.

https://fonts.google.com/

Suspect there is an encoding issue, see example deck.
missing-images.zip

I have started redesigning the app and it would be nice to be able to invert the colours when using it late at night.

We can probably do this straightforward with two pickers one for enabling TTS on either front, back and both. The other picker should expose the common TTS voices.

https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/templates/fields?id=text-to-speech

Will try out mailerlite for people wanting to receive email updates when I push changes

https://app.mailerlite.com/

I just get a blank page on the following setup

macOS 10.15.4
Firefox 75.0 (64bit)
MacBook Pro 13" 2019 i7 16Gb

however, I can confirm Safari is working.

Since it's taking a while to do the initial page render, the page is blank. Would be nice to give some feedback that something is happening.

Related-to: #6

https://highlightjs.org/usage/

Currently we only support the Markdown & CSV export which is very limiting with regards to styling. Sizes and colors won't match among other things.

Based on the emails I’ve been receiving recently, some crashes are occurring due to null related exceptions. I think we can handle these cases by not assuming stuff is defined.

People have been asking some similar questions. Will be good to put it up on the site.

/latex or /math blocks are imported however the prefix and suffix of the LaTeX string isn't picked up by Anki.

Example in Notion

Result in Anki

Expected (one of the following)
i.e requiring the square brackets and the closing forward slash.

Currently, only the first picture will display properly. For the second one, you can only see the path (?)

Reimporting causes the cards to be duplicated. Either we should have deeper support with Notion and do uni or bi-directional synchronisation.

vd on Discord says:

(3) As a student, I will be adding more cards to my Notion file as I learn more things. It would be awesome if I could upload my new Notion file with extra cards and NotionToAnki can add only the new/updated cards to my Anki deck, so I don't have to go back and delete duplicates or create a new Notion file with only new cards just for export.

This way the user does not have to restart from accidentally clicking any links on the page or other related things.

From Discord

Alpīnus Kānus Axuus:
Maybe you could create an add-on that works with notion2anki
Just create a deck with it (using the url)
And add-on checks if the notion page is changed
In case it is changed, it creates an updated deck and replaces it with the current deck

Would be nice to make it super easy to report issues on the sites or ask about stuff.
https://docs.netlify.com/forms/setup/#html-forms

Looks like they are treated as links. I suspect this has to be fixed upstream.

currently youtube embedded video is rendering as a link.

One user suggested this since it's not clear that work is happening in the background. We can use the HTML tag progress but for it to work nicely it needs to be progressed and probably styled.

We could split the progress in four parts where increments of 25% are made
0. Reading Notion Export

1. Creating cards
2. Building Anki file
3. Preparing Anki file

If the file has no suffix then check the blob.

On the webpage https://notion2anki.alemayhu.com/ the button to show the video (How it works) in full screen is disable. I had to copy the link in another tab in order to see it full screen. Is there a way we can enable the Youtube full screen button instead?

Would be nice to be able to use this offline or in a closed environment where the network blocks certain ip ranges.

See this payload

HTML test-2.apkg.zip

Looks like they are being treated as YouTube URL's.

complete-blocks.zip

This should save confusion.

{{type:field name}}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYObQ3ocrw&yt%3Acc=on

Currently, everything is left-aligned + enumerations don't continue with the right number if there is a sub-bullet after the previous one

(1) I think when you place dividers in the Notion Toggle File, the NotionToAnki program isn't able to handle it. It thinks that line is a card and uses the next sub-bullet point to make a card out of context.

Suggested-by: vd on Discord

Looks like for some unknown reason the ol tag has list-style of none.

Reported-by: abi

Example Input

The Result

missing numbered-bullets.zip.zip

Got the below exception

Successfully compiled asm.js code (total compilation time 496ms) app.js
Successfully compiled asm.js code (total compilation time 507ms) app.js
Some cookies are misusing the recommended “sameSite“ attribute 2
warn Detected empty card, please report bug to developer with an example instrument.ts:129:35
writeStringToMemory is deprecated and should not be called! Use stringToUTF8() instead! instrument.ts:129:35
Uncaught (in promise) Error: NOT NULL constraint failed: notes.sfld
    handleError app.js line 11 > eval:20
    step app.js line 11 > eval:20
    get app.js line 11 > eval:20
    getAsObject app.js line 11 > eval:20
    value app.js:11
    value app.js:11
    build app.js:11
    X app.js:11
    fileuploaded app.js:11
    handleEvent app.js:11
    sentryWrapped helpers.ts:85
    Lt trycatch.ts:149
    dt instrument.ts:385
    on$ app.js:11
    render app.js:11
    commit app.js:11
    visit app.js:11
    end$ app.js:11
    render app.js:11
    commit app.js:11
    connectedCallback app.js:11
    define app.js:11
    <anonymous> app.js:11
    a app.js:1
    <anonymous> app.js:11
    a app.js:1
    <anonymous> app.js:1
    <anonymous> app.js:1
app.js line 11 > eval:20:16580
Successfully compiled asm.js code (total compilation time 514ms) app.js

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General Imba.zip

might also be good to link to them https://www.netlify.com/privacy/

keywords: anki, notion, notion to anki, notion 2 anki

https://www.wordstream.com/meta-tags

The current implementation is broken and should be updated to either work on the card level or removed entirely?

x.addCard(... { tags: ['cool', 'car'] });

If subpages are detected should we ask user if they want to create multiple decks?

We already have a module for handling markdown and the having the text in the markup is getting really ugly. Also translation can be easier with the markdown files.

From Discord

Quick newbie question: on Anki for desktop, all my cards are left-aligned as they should be but on my iPad they are centred. Do you guys know how I can change that globally? 😬

iOS

Desktop

These are the new templates I am considering of adding

• Programing / Coding
• Vocabulary
• Response design
• Chalkboard

Will be useful for maps, flags, etc.

Need to think through this before writing any line of code for it.

Reading material

https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/templates/generation?id=cloze-templates
https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/getting-started?id=note-types
https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/editing?id=cloze-deletion
https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/math?id=cloze-conflicts

• Text color, background

Suggested-by: vd on Discord

(2) It would be really cool to see background color added to the Anki cards, if there is background color that corresponds to the colored Notion Toggle Sections.

Would be amazing to have autoplay as a configuration similar to https://github.com/ninja33/anki-templates