2023-07-12

ChatGPT Code Interpreter

src: 回到 Axton

I thought ChatGPT input of PDF files, MP3 audio, etc. is still a long ways away. I was so wrong.


Ankiweb delight

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Anki

Anki is the third PKM 個人知識管理 that I built, after DTSearch and Evernote. Today, it is my most frequently used and updated system. I almost stopped using DTSearch altogether for its being on the old Windows 10 VM, a resource hog on my Mid-2014 MacBook Pro (Intel)|2014年版MacBook Pro. As for Evernote, it is where garbage data goes to die. I still use it today, making most of the free 60MB storage per month to store random web content and short memos.
I started putting all my effort into Anki in ... 2019, when I successfully imported 200,000 English-Chinese dictionary entries into it and started liking its versatility. The rest is history.

Now I have this as my second weapon: My first Obsidian vault: EKLIAO.

Verdict: 4 stars

Pro

AnkiWeb surprisingly fast

  • Having experienced the awful slowness of Obsidian (iCloud and local) in handling 400K data, I gave AnkiWeb a try. It's already there, but I actually never used it, assuming it wasn't going to be fast compared to the desktop app. Gosh, I was so wrong. On 1.2 million entries, the search for a headword takes less than 5 seconds, sometimes only 1-2 seconds. What a surprise!
  • More about AnkiWeb (its pros and cons).
  • Truly hierarchical: searching for tag:A alone without saying tag:A:: or tag:A* will still get A::B and A::B::C, etc. Great!
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Custom fields

Cons

#Glasp

Searching - Anki Manual

Metadata

Highlights & Notes

  • "re:(some|another).*thing"

Page Comment

Despite Anki's official documentation, Anki does not support parentheses at all. I have tried many times and have given up. Parentheses for grouping (either capturing or non-capturing kind) is crucial in regex searching.

  • Simply put, Anki's search has the weirdest idea of what works and what doesn't. For example, a literal space won't work in a regex search. Don't get me started.

No "search as you type" functionality


Migrating to Obsidian

Anki hacks I've learned

(New to old)

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Add-ons

Issues

Desktop performance tracking

After Anki Issues of Slow Desktop App, I decided it was time to track every newly installed add-on to monitor for performance issues:


More ...

Ankification

Anki Export Considerations - text vs apkg

Anki data merging project (WIP w ongoing change log)

Refocusing on Glossary Management