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entropie ◴[] No.44020830[source]
Pretty OT: A few month ago I tried to marry my simple note system with anki. My goal was to be able to send simple front/backside cards to an api and it would get integrated and I can use it immediately. Ofc, when I edit cards via my notes-backend, the cards in anki should update too.

Long story short: not possible with anki. It took like an entire day for me to realize its just not possible without diving deep into ankis sqlitedb and having the client installed on my server to interact in a horrible way with decks. I wrote my own space repetition [1] backend in a week and never looked back to anki. Ill intergrate FSRS in my software.

1: https://github.com/entropie/ha2itat/tree/main/plugins/entrom...

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1. jwrallie ◴[] No.44021107[source]
Anki can import .csv files and if one of the column content is matching an existing item, it will update the contents of the card while keeping the repetition history. Think of it like including a column with unique keys.

I know this is not precisely what you wanted, but yes, Anki can update card contents.