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ElGalambo comments on Is there an automatic Chrome-to-Anki-2 extension or solution? - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Mark_Eichenlaub 16 January 2013 05:26AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 January 2013 10:27:53AM 0 points [-]

Each time you find content you like, just copy-paste it in its raw form to a new Anki card and don't do further processing. Eventually, when you are studying Anki and this card shows up, you can then edit it and turn it into a properly formatted card that can be studied.

Comment author: Ratcourse 16 January 2013 12:53:36PM 2 points [-]

highly discourage this method. "reviewing" starts taking too long and one starts procrastinating.

i copy and paste stuff i want to learn to a text file, and when i have down time go into it and turn it into question/answer/tag.

once everything is done i import it into anki

Comment author: [deleted] 17 January 2013 05:56:40PM *  0 points [-]

highly discourage this method. "reviewing" starts taking too long and one starts procrastinating.

My method is better than processing each card you decide to add, which breaks your reading workflow and discourages you from adding more cards.

i copy and paste stuff i want to learn to a text file, and when i have down time go into it and turn it into question/answer/tag.

once everything is done i import it into anki

This is a good workflow. Definitely better than mine. However, I don't think it will work well for cloze cards.

Comment author: Antisuji 16 January 2013 09:43:42PM *  0 points [-]

I do this too, but I find I rarely have time for importing.

Edit to add: for vocabulary words I've come up with a set of scripts and vim macros that put the definition (from wiktionary) and some tags into a csv file for importing into Anki. But even with this amount of automation it's more work than I normally want to deal with.

Comment author: Ratcourse 17 January 2013 01:02:45PM 0 points [-]

what do you mean rarely have time for importing? going to anki import file it takes maybe 30 secs?