Is it possible to do a heading without creating a card?

[davidh38]

I would like to categorize my questions. Is it possible to do a heading 1 without creating a card out of it?

Example:

• Heading 1
  ** Heading 2
  answer 2

Heading one should not create a card. Just Heading 2 and answer 2 should be a new card.

[eyeinsky]

Hi @davidh38, yes, that is how it works! You can create a card from any single heading/content pair with org-anki-sync-entry.

[davidh38]

@eyeinsky I appreciate your work, thanks a lot btw.

No, I want the Heading 1 not to create a card, it is just a heading, but when I sync it, it creates an entry, but it should not, because it is only a heading and thus a categorisation for my actual cards.

[eyeinsky]

What command do you use to create the card and where is your cursor when doing it? If you are within Heading 2 and run org-anki-sync-entry then it should just create a card where front is "Heading 2" and back is "answer 2".

[davidh38]

I run org-anki-sync-all with. If I use org-anki-sync-entry, I would have to do it for a lot of entries.

I just would like to run org-anki-sync-all and not have heading 1 create a card entry and not do org-anki-sync-entry for each of my approximately over 100 entries. Is that possible or can I not use headings for cards categorization?

[eyeinsky]

Yes, using the sync-all would make cards of all headings. I guess the improvement here would be to skip all headings that have no textual content.

The other way to do it at the moment would be to do all entries manually at first (i.e, use org-anki-sync-entry) and then use org-anki-update-all afterwards -- this would only sync again all cards which have been synced previously.

[davidh38]

Hello @eyeinsky,

is there any other way to have a delimiter, I don't want to sync everything like this, but in bulk. Is there some other delimiter, I could sue for example

this

or

because I would like to categorise by deck. How do you manage this categorisation?

[eyeinsky]

Github markup is making it hard to follow -- could you in-between code markers (three backticks) show what you mean? E.g

* Heading 1
** This I'd like to be card front
this I'd like to be the card back
---
this shouldn't be part of card back anymore, it's delimited by the "---" on the line above.

[davidh38]

@eyeinsky kk, will try it "---" would work great, because than I could make it visible, which deck is which. Thank you.

[davidh38]

--- does not work at all, because it is part of the card. How do you categorize the cards, when you have more than one deck or are you syncing each care one by one the first time?

edit: I now sync each one seperately and then use update all for now

[eyeinsky]

Hi, I may have solved your problem, please test latest master/v3.3.1!

What I do is I filter out all headings which have no immediate content (immediate in the sense that they only have sub-headings, but no body text).