Vim

Quickly adding cards

@lervag (author of apy): This is my own workflow for quickly adding cards with apy + Vim.

I use a set of personalized "snippets" or mappings that I use to easily convert lists of questions and answers into proper markdown.

Example workflow

One example of the workflow is something like this:

1. vim notes.md

2. Write a list of new questions/answers, e.g.

   topic
   Q: question1
   continued lines (no blank lines)
   A: answer1
   Q: question2
   A: answer2
   long answer (no blank lines)
   Q: ...
   A: ...
   

3. With Vim cursor inside the above block of text, I type <space>aa to convert the notes. This executes the CreateNotes() function (see link above), with the result:

   # Note
   model: Basic
   tags: topic
   
   ## Front
   **topic**
   
   question1
   continued lines (no blank lines)
   
   ## Back
   answer1
   
   # Note
   model: Basic
   tags: topic
   
   ## Front
   **topic**
   
   question2
   
   ## Back
   answer2
   long answer (no blank lines)
   
   # Note
   model: Basic
   tags: topic
   
   ## Front
   **topic**
   
   ...
   
   ## Back
   ...

4. Now I save the file and do apy add-from-file notes.md. Done.

In practise, I use Vim also to take notes in general. I have my Vim based notes available with a simple shortcut, and so it is always easy to add a note whenever I work on something or read something. I tend to add questions and answers in a similar format as specified above to my Vim based notes, and then with regular intervals I convert them and add them to Anki.