Cards and Anki

Every word you meet in a book or a video can become a card. You pick it where you read it, the card sheet opens already filled in, and the card goes where you send it: to Anki, as a note in one of your decks; to an exercise deck of this toolbox; or onto the clipboard as markdown, for a studio document. It can carry the word’s own sound, cut out of the book’s narration or the film, and — from a video — a frame of the picture.

The Anki side is a round trip. Parseh keeps every Anki card as a small file of its own, builds a deck package (.apkg) from those files, and you import that package into Anki. Once you have studied and edited the cards inside Anki, a sync brings those edits home before the next build, so that nothing you changed in Anki is ever overwritten.

1. The loop, in short#

Make cards while you read or watch: modifier-click a word (Alt, Ctrl or Cmd) and press save card.
Build the deck: build .apkg on the card sheet, and import the file into Anki (File → Import…).
Study in Anki, and edit there as you like.
Before the next build, sync: export the deck from Anki, drop the file on the Sync with Anki page, preview, apply — then rebuild and import again.

Steps 1 and 2 are all there is until you edit a card inside Anki. From then on, step 4 comes before every build.

2. Where it all is#

On the page	What it opens
a modifier-click on a word, or + card in a gloss cloud	the card sheet, in the book reader and in the video player
🔊 cut the audio… on the card sheet	the cut editor, which cuts the word’s sound into the clip tray
⇆ Anki on the hub	the Sync with Anki page (`/anki/sync/`)
⇆ Sync with Anki on the videos page	the same page
⇆ synced lately? beside a video’s build .apkg	the same page, in a new tab
✂ The clip tray on the hub	the clip tray’s own page (`/clips/`)

The hub’s ⇆ Anki door counts the cards and the decks in the store, and ✂ The clip tray says how many clips wait in the tray. Both doors, like the rest of what edits, are on the hub’s Browser layout only: the Mobile layout is made for reading and studying, so switch back to Browser in the hub’s top bar to reach them.

3. The pages of this section#

They follow the life of a card: where it is kept and what it is made of, making it and giving it its sound, building the deck, and the round trip with Anki once you study and edit it there.

The card storeWhere Parseh keeps your Anki cards — one file each, filed by language — and why a card's identifier never changes.
Note types and directionsThe two kinds of Anki card, the pair of note types each language has, and the Reverse and ReverseOnly fields that decide which cards a note makes.
Making a cardOpening the card sheet in a book or a video, what it fills in for you, and saving the card to Anki.
Where the card goesThe card sheet's three destinations — Anki, an exercise deck, markdown on the clipboard — and the jolly card, whose front and back are yours.
Cutting the audioThe cut editor — a word's sound cut out of the book's narration or the film by ear — where its edges start, and what can be cut.
A YouTube video's soundHow the cut editor records the stretch of a YouTube video from the browser tab, what Chrome asks, the reach row, and what each message means.
The clip trayWhere a recording or a frame waits between the card sheet it was made on and the card, deck or document it goes onto — and its own page.
Recordings and framesHow a recording rides on an Anki card without a field of its own, and how the video player captures a frame of the video for a card.
Building a deckThe build .apkg button, what the package holds, importing it into Anki, and why you sync before you build once you edit in Anki.
The round tripThe Sync with Anki page step by step — export, drop, preview, apply, rebuild — how to read its report, and how deletions are told apart from new cards.
Bringing decks inA deck the store has never held, a package built by another copy of Parseh, and the two things the sync refuses.
Editing inside AnkiWhich edits in Anki are always safe, the Reverse and ReverseOnly gates in practice, splitting a card's directions, and what hands a note to Anki for good.