Anki: Searching, PDF Reading & Note-Taking in Add Dialog Add-on

This video talks about this amazing add-on and gives an introductory tutorial on how to use it for adding anki flashcards from pdfs, videos, and notes. This is an incredibly complex add-on, but this video should get you off to a good start!
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[@hightfly9300]

Definitely down for a few videos upon this add-on! All hail the AnKing!

[@Swanke]

Can you please make an advanced user video? For people that have been using Anki for a long time now? I wanna see the full power of this considering how frequently I read PDFs --> anki. TY.

[@Swanke]

And just collect your thoughts and what not. Doesn't have to be super coherent. I'll figure out the advanced stuff eventually but would be nice to be aware of em all before hand.

[@gijonize]

I dont understand why so many of these apps and addons do everything except the main thing they're meant for. I thought this addon would help make it easier to make flashcards from pdfs. But that's the only thing it doesn't do right. The cloze deletion is basically dysfunctional and you need another app to copy the text and then make the clozes yourself. The only app I've seen that does this properly is polar and that went out of business. I just need one app that lets u generate clozes from pdfs without u having to copy n paste stuff every time and click a million times. Such a simple task and so useful but no lets make something that looks like a flight deck and does everything in the world except this.

[@jihadszalloum]

Man u changed my life with your videos As soon as i can work i would definitely contribute to the cause God bless u

[@bigsing187]

Hey cheers for the video, I really liked this addon but I couldn't figure out how to tell if I was adding cards to my regular deck or if I was adding them to the "PDF review" custom study deck. Could you help me out with that please?

[@godfatha1]

This addon has potential, but imo it's not super time saving if your intent is to make cards from a pdf/webpage. You're still copying and pasting from the pdf. You can't do it on the go. It would fantastic to import PDFs you have prehighlighted and it automatically generate cards from those. It can either give you the option to determine all the clozed phrases or automatically do them with a text extraction tool (similar to polar bookshelf). I'd actually argue Polar Bookshelf does a better job of that at this moment. This addon DOES add great functionality for other things though! Like KZbin integration and spaced repetition for reviewing content and card creation (but I'm personally not interested in those features)

[@tarazwicker8113]

For PDFs prob not, but for videos, YES! there are a lot of interviews/ CE lectures I want to listen to and take notes on, but, I often don’t have time for a 2 hour lecture, so, being able to watch 10 min here and there and make Flashcards as I go and have anki keep track of which videos I’m watching, amazing! Same for webpages!

[@monteraid]

what do you think is the best add on for PDF >?

[@lep21382]

Yes, I would also like to know any add on recommendations for pdfs! :)

[@itssuhaibalrumi]

I just finished watching it. just wanna say I purchased the app textSniper about a year ago (without a discount so I paid like 10$) honestly it is worth every penny. It has additive capture, so I quickly capture like every 4 or 5 slides of text and then paste it in anki or anywhere else. It has line breaks so when you capture a text it copies the text + the line the way they are,it is so useful and u have to use keyboard shortcuts cuz the most time-saving is in using shortcuts. it also has importing from another device but I don't use .

[@4444hash]

more videos about this add-ons please :) thank you AnKing!

[@lucassampaio3471]

Loved the Video. I would very much like to see more videos of this Add-on!

[@katiaberrios6081]

I just discovered this Add-on , it looks really powerful! tysm for this tutorial , now I have a better idea of how to start using it!

[@conradl1550]

I looked into this add-on a few months ago when I was starting med school, and I just found the card-making too clunky. The text formatting was just too inconsistent with the automatically generated cards, and I found it frustrating to use. But maybe I'll give it another shot with Textsniper. I wonder if there's a setting (either in the add-on or in textsniper) to copy to clipboard without any newline (' ') characters because I think that might fix most of the problem. Great video!

[@jeffreyvedha4871]

I would really love for there to be a shortcut to the section of textbook which a cloze is based on.

[@cleofaspintolimalima1627]

I have several text to put in anki, you know how to do it automatically, because I want to do it like a movie, but I don't know how to do it automatically for text, I have text and queries to put it automatically.

[@TheVitamineE]

really nice need a lot more about this addon!

[@TurboExit]

Is there an addon that only has the search functionality in the "Add" window?

[@Swanke]

OMFG. I cannot believe that this is a thing. Thank you so much.

[@Joeydoesmedicine]

I’ve been debating using this add on the last few days but I’m not convinced this is better than just having notes open on the right side of the screen. I just have a “notes” field where I can take notes within anki, then I make cards from my notes. Also, I read and take notes on anki from my biochem textbook, so I don’t want to upload my entire textbook into this add on.

[@skoochiVAL]

Incremental reading

[@NicolasBrouard09]

Hello everyone, is there a good way to utilize this in an incremental reading process, where I would extract the important material first. This material will then be showed to me on a later date (a few days after maybe, depending on the priority) and from this material, now I can create my flashcard?

[@GalinaWalls]

I also want to now how to set up incremental reading with this add-on.

[@rramnarine8919]

Just discovered this Add On yesterday and made Anki a million times more powerful. The search , notes and pdf features hands down Amazing...

[@mrparadox6878]

It's amazing man, it's amazing

[@SpManos-zeke]

3:17 About that priority thing. "You've got spaced repetition for how you are doing your flashcards. This add-on is going to do spaced repetition for adding flashcards."

[@wewjoj]

Does anybody know reasons why when reading a pdf it says "unable to load pdf - pdf seems invalid"?

[@trotamix8365]

It seems really cool, but I have a problem with the timer because I need that an audible alarm sound so I notice when I need to stop taking my break and I cannot find the settings to set the alarm in the add-on. Does someone knows how can I change the settings?

[@ozi98]

Why don't you just copy and paste it instead of using Text Sniper? You can disable the "Auto Search Function" with a button below, just the left side of the "Note" button.

[@KristelBaculi]

how to add SIAC on the note type?

[@sebastianalejomai9304]

Spectacular video, but it got stuck at the beginning. I uploaded the PDF, but then it said "queue empty", and I don't know what could be happening... any ideas? Great video, thanks.

[@edimarlon]

Same here! :\

[@edimarlon]

did you find any solution?

[@shresthprasad3483]

powerful tool with great video explanation only help I need is any alternative for text sniper for Linux user

[@Omar-gf1yb]

This is outdated now, a lot has changed, for e.g. the menu changed and the settings as well.

[@danieleduardojaramillopina8437]

Hi, first thanks for your videos, they are really helpful. I just have a question, how do you get that part that says "Total new cards Learned today" and "Total new cards learned this week". Sorry if its a nonsense question , but i am just curious how i can get those stats in my main deck screen. Again, really thanks for your videos, anking and anki are really helpful in my preparation for usmle step 1, and will be for the step 2 also.

[@AnKingMed]

That's an addon I currently have as an alpha test on our membership/Patreon: www.ankingmed.com/membership

[@danieleduardojaramillopina8437]

@@AnKingMed ohh thanks for the info, I am really considering to buy a membership, not only for learn for myself but also to learn more to teach others . I have to say tanks, I buy the anki mastery course, its awsome and really helps me to understand more the use of anki and shows the best and productive way to use it. (I want and wishing to get a very high score in my steps, so that I can apply or try to get into the anking team.) Really thanks because the course was a game changer for my preparation for usmle, now i can retain and remember more, rushing and destroying those Qbanks question, resulting that I even retain more knowledge from the qbank questions. Thanks from the bottom of my soul and keep doing these greats videos. Salutes and Greetings from Ecuador. I hope you are having a good day and thank you really.

[@HayyanKhaled]

It is another app next to anki 🙃. Can you please update it in your website with the other +40 add on to the 2.1.40 version? Thanks

[@Trucker_2_doctor]

Hey Nick! Do you have any instructions on how to get the nice bottom ”rebuild” ”empty” buttons?

[@AnKingMed]

Rebuild all empty all addon :)

[@Trucker_2_doctor]

@@AnKingMed Thx 🤩

[@lucasbruxelas1473]

Any chance you show how to use this add-on for learning languages in the future? This add-on or others in geral. Thanks AnKing, love ya videos.

[@dr.ahmedal-yousif7398]

Thank you , guy . would you make a video about ( how to memorize with method of loci in Anki ) , please ? such as : numbers ,Tissue functions and Tissue sites , that have similar function and site , because we can`t recognize them by time .

[@cesarernestogb]

it's amazing, Complex and amazing!. I would very much like to see more videos of this Add-on!

[@rusca8]

Oh my god. This is next level addons.

[@juliosubia2226]

how can I suggest to someone from the anki team an idea for an add-on that would be great for language learners, as the existing similar add-on is incomplete?

[@dantesvaljean1868]

Will Smith ain't nothing. You are the legend.

[@n30s4m]

Bug add-on

[@franciscoicarocs]

Thank u!

[@Blackjack_Kiriko]

splendid

[@renansales644]

Thanks for this video, Anking. Could you make a second one introducing more features?

[@46levanbinh23]

Thank for your helpful videos. Do you know how to set up shortcuts for tools such as screencutting in this add-on?

[@marcomarrero9473]

Such awesome add-on! It really simplified the work. Thanks for sharing this beauty!

[@ahmedmesbah7276]

Wow, this add-on is a game changer!!!!!

[@sheaxchen]

Looks similar to how MarginNote works

[@abdullahidris218]

This video just tempted me to get a Mac

[@eddek844]

use capture2text

[@kevinmoreno846]

Finally😊

[@eldher6278]

Thankssssssss I love that chanel

[@stephenaRichardson]

Thanks a lot from India ❤️

[@SuperDaniiXD]

Thank you for sharing this info

[@WhiteHurricane100]

This looks really good, thanks for sharing.

[@mohammadalattar7177]

This seems like it has so much potential

[@_karteam]

🇲🇽❤️

[@mansnou6129]

Superb 👏👏👏👏

[@michelsilva3072]

Terrific!!!

[@raonei]

I was having some issues importing my clippings from Kindle Mate to Anki, you solved all that. Plus, gave me a ton of ideas on how to study and teach languages (yes I make flashcards for my students)