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File ▸ Import Anki Deck… (⇧⌘I) converts an .apkg or .colpkg into Markdown files in the open folder’s cards folder, one per deck (Languages::Korean becomes cards/Languages/Korean.md). Existing files are never overwritten. Images and sounds are copied to a media folder at the root, and note tags become #tag lines.
  • Note types with more than two fields, such as vocabulary with word, meaning, audio, image and sentence, keep their fields: each note becomes an @ line and a block of Field: value lines, and the note type a file in note-types, with a rule per card type made from the fields its template shows on each side (see Notes with fields). A typing box, {{type:Word}}, makes its rule a typed one (=>) with that field first on the back, and fields the answer shows right after a question’s field, such as the word’s audio, come first on the back, so they don’t end up beside another field. A note type file already there with the same definition is shared; one that differs is kept, and the imported one is named Vocabulary 2 and so on.
  • Other note types become Q:/A: cards rendered from their templates: those with two fields, like Basic, and those whose questions a list of fields can’t describe, with text of their own (Plural of {{Word}}?), a script, or fields shown only when another field is filled. So does any note whose cards amgi’s rules wouldn’t make the same way, or whose cards are in different decks or only partly suspended.
  • Cloze notes become C: cards, with Back Extra kept as a note under the card. Anki can test several deletions together (c1 used twice); amgi gives each its own card.
  • Review history is replayed through amgi’s FSRS scheduler, and due dates follow Anki’s.
  • MathJax \(…\) and \[…\] become $…$ and $$…$$. A cloze inside math is taken out of it, so the gap holds its own math.
  • [sound:…] references become sound links. Text-to-speech ({{tts:…}}) is left out.
  • Suspended cards are imported with the #suspended tag and keep their history. amgi suspends a cloze as a whole, so when only some of a cloze’s deletions were suspended in Anki, those get a tagged copy of the cloze of their own.
  • Image occlusion notes are left out.