2023-05-10
Data Interoperability
Because I had liberally used # in Anki as a makeshift symbol to mark up headwords in the front and back, now I'm dealing with issue of not wanting # in OB after migration through Mochi. What a nightmare!
Reason for #: Could not use the underscore, as Anki treat _ as, believe it or not, a single-character wild card in search (almost universally known as ? elsewhere).
Reason against #: It is widely used as the symbol for a tag/hashtag. My newly developed mentality for tags in Obsidian is that it's meta: type of content, classification, and at most topics, not for vocabulary or technical terms, which easily number in 5- even 6- figures.
Other special characters:
/ → ⧸ (Big Solidus) 【巜full-width slash cannot be typed for some reason by Squirrel 】
> → ＞ OR full-width 〉
< → ＜ OR full-width 〈
: → ։ OR full-width ：
| → ┃ OR fulld-width ｜
\ → ⧵ OR full-width ＼
^ → ⌃ 【巜can't type full-width】
" → “ OR ”
* → ＊ (same as full-width ＊ ?)
[ → { OR full-width ［
] → } OR full-width ］
# → ⋕ OR full-width
Needless to say, I shouldn't attempt migration and also removal of the original Anki decks any time soon. Exploring while letting migration options develop organically is the safer bet.
Data Migration Note: New OB Vault
#data/migration
#Anki
I dumped 150K Anki notes (mostly legal glossaries) through Mochi into a new OB vault called Anki2 as the second exploration (the first being A-Mydict, about 25K). Don't change anything. Treat it as read-only.