Plugin rewrite

[reuseman]

This is to discuss the plugin rewrite #151.

[bytewife]

I'll outline a few ideas below:

[bytewife]

• Modular separation between PKB & flashcard review. Structure the project like:

PKB (i.e. Obsidian) 
|
PKB-to-plugin bridge
|
plugin (flashcards-obsidian)
|
plugin-to-reviewer bridge 
|
flashcard reviewer (i.e. Anki)

[reuseman]

The high level overview of the architecture is totally sound

[bytewife]

Remnote-like WYSIWYG for UI:

• Hide the flashcard ID from the user in Live Preview mode
• Hide the plugin's syntax (i.e. #card tags, {} clozes, etc) from the user in Live Preview mode. Alternatively, change it to a cleaner symbol that can be clicked on, like in Remnote

[reuseman]

• What do you mean by hiding the flashcard ID in preview mode? It should not be visible at the moment?
• How would you hide the #card tag? There should be something that makes clear that a specific block is a card, especially because nowadays on Obsidian you have the live preview mode where you can even write. Thus, if you don't see the flashcard tag there it may be misleading

[bytewife]

A few other ideas, such as

• Cloze Lists (drawing inspiration from Andy Matuschak's Prompts essay)
• User-chosen syntax for clozes & other similar features
• A way of attaching tags to Anki cards, so that you can filter out different cards from a single Anki deck
• Export notes, removing plugin-specific syntax from notes
• Fine-tune control of how much context in prior and following lines of text to include in each Anki card (in particular with cloze and similar features)
• Search for "orphaned" flashcards (flashcards that exist in Obsidian, but not in Anki)

[reuseman]

1. Need to read more about prompts essay, seems interesting. What would be needed in order to have it, that it's not available right now?
2. It makes sense, but I would always keep in mind as a goal that the less customization, the fewer bugs. Especially in the initial rewrite, let's focus on a specific syntax in order to deliver asap, and then we can tweak the custom stuff.
3. Right now you can use a specific tag for each question, what do you mean?
4. This would be nice, but I guess it should be compatible with Obsidian export command, if that's possible.
5. Like point number 2. It's ok, but let's focus on a quick deliver of the initial part of the rewrite.
6. I think it could be useful with the current plugin, but if you have a command that generates globally the flashcards, this would probably never be used.