I want to be able to add a new card by hitting a keyboard shortcut from anywhere on my Mac e.g while in the browser, reading a PDF, or editting a document. Is this possible with Anki or do I need an external program or automation?
Example: CMD + ‘,’ → The Anki new card window is opened or focussed.
hi, i don’t know any way to directly input it to anki but what I do is I copy a word I want to learn with cmd c and then have a gpt shortcut that I created that answers and formats the meaning of the word and also an example sentence. The gpt answer gets appended to a csv file or note and every once in a while i import the file into anki it’s quick and easy easy.
Here is my shortcut.
Here you can see where you can choose your own keyboard shortcut. I usually use shift control and then a letter on mac since this combination usually doesn’t overlap with any other shortcuts based on my experience.
Have a nice day.
As this is a task with multiple steps, I would try a tool like Keyboard Maestro (https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/).
This was super helpful thanks a lot I implemented it on my mac using an Apple Script within my created shortcut so now I only need to hit one key shift control c after having highlighted the word I want to learn.
The only problem is that I often read on my iPhone and Apple Script is not supported on iOS unfortunately. I tried to find a workaround with scriptable using javascript but it appears that Apple has blocked system level interaction and scripting like these on iPhones. Do you or anyone have any idea on how I could find a workaround to automate the steps copy to clipboard from the iPhone highlighted text menu?
So instead of highlighting selecting copy from menu and then triggering the shortcut i could just highlight and then the highlighted text would be automatically copied to the clipboard.
I would be greatful for any ideas.
The closest iOS offers to this is the “Shortcuts” app, and something like Looking for a Shortcut that will use ChatGPT to improve copied text : shortcuts
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