Overview

Lute doesn’t have built-in flashcards for various reasons¹, so it provides a way to export terms to Anki, a popular and free flashcard program.

In summary:

1. You install Anki desktop and the AnkiConnect add-on (see LINK HERE)
2. You define how Lute should export terms
3. You export selected terms from the term listing or while reading.

Anki exports will only work on a machine that has Anki desktop and AnkiConnect installed. It doesn’t work from a mobile device.

A quick sample

After telling Lute how to export data, from the reading screen, you can hover over a term:

and hit a hotkey you define:

The data is exported to Anki per your export specification (deck and field mappings):

and Anki handles the flashcard generation and scheduling, according to how you've set it up, e.g.:

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A disclaimer :-)

Anki exports are tricky to handle it a general way:

• Usually, language data is fairly unstructured.
• Many users will have different needs.
• Different kinds of terms will require different kinds of Anki cards (for example, cards to test gender, verb tenses, etc.)

There's no simple way to do perfect exports in a general way, and some things might not be possible at all, without custom code!

Given the above, it might be best to look at Lute's Anki exports as a "first draft" for some Anki cards, which you can further refine, suspend, or delete as needed. From my experience, the cards are usually just fine, and I can make any other cards outside of Lute as usual.