Hi, I’ve been using the SPACED REPETITION Plugin by Stephen Mwangi which is simple and elegant, but for a number of reasons have decided to use the separate Anki web app for my flashcards.
Obsidian seems to have dozens of Anki plugins, and it’s difficult to know which are the most useful and reliable, without already being very familiar with the Anki app.
Can anyone recommend some of their favourite Anki plugins and why? Or can anyone recommend a deep dive anywhere on using obsidian and Anki (preferably without generative AI). I hope this is the right section to post in, but apologies if I got it wrong (currently on a tiny smartphone)
For anyone else looking for a solution, “Yanki” Link seems to offer the best case for ease, and has also been recently updated. You can sync from a watched folder (and sub-folders) and it makes one card per note (suitable for fans of atomic notes methods). I’m going to try this plug-in for a few days and see how it goes.
I also moved from the ‘Spaced Repetition’ plugin to Anki. But I didn’t find any obsidian plugin linking to Anki that satisfied me, so now I don’t use any.
I just add a #anki inline hashtag near the point in the note where I’m making the flashcard from.
On Anki, I have a custom field called ‘Source’ setup so I can just paste the note URI link there it will show as a clickable link. It will open obsidian to the source note on both my PC and my phone.
Hi, I’m the author of a small plugin called AnkiHeadingSync （in GitHub）, so this is more of a self-recommendation than a neutral recommendation.
I built it because my main problem was not only creating Anki cards from Obsidian, but keeping each card connected to the original note context.
The workflow I wanted was:
Obsidian note → Anki card → review in Anki → jump back to the exact source note / heading in Obsidian → edit the note → sync again.
So the focus is “card-level backlink / context recovery” rather than just bulk card generation.
It may be useful if you care about reviewing in Anki while still being able to return to the original Obsidian context.
That said, it is still a new plugin, so I would not claim it is as mature as the older options yet. If you mainly want a long-tested solution, it’s probably still worth comparing it with the more established Obsidian-to-Anki workflows.
A bit more context: before this, I used 「Obsidian_to_Anki」 together with 「Anki Helper」（ a plugin I developed and published in the Obsidian community plugin directory.）
That workflow worked, but it never felt elegant enough for card-level backlinks from Anki back to Obsidian.
That’s why I started building AnkiHeadingSync. It uses heading-based links, and for my own workflow it already solves the “jump back to the exact Obsidian context from Anki” problem much more cleanly.
It’s still new, and I’m currently working through the Obsidian community plugin submission process, so it may take a while before it appears in the official directory.
Thanks for both your answers. I’m happy enough with the solution I found, but @dmantisk having the ability to link back to the Obsidian note is a great idea (I use the Johnny Decimal system for my vault and I’ve already manually linked to a dropbox duplicate of each folder outside the vault, and vice-versa using Obsidian URIs - I like having the redundacy), and @Dusk17 you seem to have a great solution which I might try in a few days
