Notes? Spaced Repetition? Surely This Will Be Simple…

Oh, you sweet summer child. The idea was brilliant—nay, revolutionary: jot down a note (two fields, content and tags), slap on the right tags, and voilà, your Anki deck updates itself across all devices. Fast, clean, efficient. What could possibly go wrong?

“Anki is amazing!” they said. “It’ll change your life!” they lied. Turns out, Anki has the perfect system for making you question your life choices. Sure, you can create decks, and if you enjoy performing digital seppuku, you can sync them to the cloud via an inscrutable online service, then pull them back down like some medieval monk copying manuscripts. But updating decks? Forget it. Oh, and they have a sync server written in Rust (because, of course, they do). It’s fast, modern, and still completely useless since the issue is the same

you can’t update decks without a running anki application

After hours of research, gallons of tears, and the slow, soul-sucking realization that my dreams were crumbling into the void, I did the only sane thing: I poured a blood orange juice, explained the situation to my dogs and that it will take a few days, and wrote my own damn SM2 system.

It might be not as extensive as anki, but it will have MULTIPLE apis and many (!) different ways to access cards.