
Making Laverna Anki Addon
Recently, I’ve been working on simplifying the Laverna CLI integration with Anki. What seemed challenging during the planning phase turned out to be elegant in execution. Here’s a summary of the challenges and takeaways. The Original Workflow Three months ago, I built an integration between Laverna CLI and Anki with this workflow: User downloads a custom Cloze note type (note-type.apkg) from the repository and then imports to Anki (one-time setup) User prepares CSV data in the expected format User runs Laverna CLI, which outputs enriched CSV User manually imports the CSV via Anki’s deck import tab Everything looked normal on the surface, but steps 1 and 4 were cumbersome and repetitive. Since Anki doesn’t provide an official SDK or REST API, I needed to find another approach. Step 1 and 4 were also more error prone since it contained my internal app logic. ...

