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A fork of Tiago Barroso's Frozen Fields add-on with support for Anki 2.1

Frozen Fields for Anki


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Frozen Fields is an add-on for the spaced-repetition flashcard app Anki. It allows you to conveniently sticky and unsticky a field right from within the note editor, saving you precious keystrokes when processing repetitive information.

Table of Contents

  • Installation
  • Documentation
  • Building
  • Contributing
  • License and Credits

Installation

AnkiWeb

The easiest way to install Frozen Fields is through AnkiWeb.

Manual installation

Please click on the entry corresponding to your Anki version:

Anki 2.1
  1. Make sure you have the latest version of Anki 2.1 installed. Earlier releases (e.g. found in various Linux distros) do not support .ankiaddon packages.
  2. Download the latest .ankiaddon package from the releases tab (you might need to click on Assets below the description to reveal the download links)
  3. From Anki's main window, head to ToolsAdd-ons
  4. Drag-and-drop the .ankiaddon package onto the add-ons list
  5. Restart Anki
Anki 2.0
  1. Go to ToolsAdd-onsOpen add-ons folder
  2. Find and delete the Frozen Fields.py file if it already exists.
  3. See if you can find a frozen_fields folder. If so:
    1. If the folder contains a meta.json file, copy the file to a safe location. This will allow you to preserve your current settings.
    2. Proceed to delete the frozen_fields folder
  4. Download and extract the latest Anki 2.0 add-on release from the releases tab (you might need to click on Assets below the description to reveal the download links)
  5. Move the extracted Frozen Fields.py and frozen_fields into the add-ons folder
  6. Optional: Place the meta.json file back into the directory if you created a copy beforehand.
  7. Restart Anki

Documentation

For further information on the use of this add-on please check out the description text for AnkiWeb.

Building

With Anki add-on builder installed:

git clone https://github.com/glutanimate/frozen-fields.git
cd frozen-fields
aab build

For more information on the build process please refer to aab's documentation.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please review the contribution guidelines on how to:

  • Report issues
  • File pull requests
  • Support the project as a non-developer

License and Credits

Frozen Fields is

Copyright © 2012-2015 Tiago Barroso

Copyright © 2015-2019 Aristotelis P. (Glutanimate)

With code contributions by: ankitest, Arthur Milchior, BlueGreenMagick (thanks!)

The present fork is based on Frozen Fields by Tiago Barroso. All credit for the original idea and implementation goes to him. Initial work on this fork and the port to Anki 2.1 was made possible thanks to the generous support of a fellow Anki user who would like to remain anonymous.

Frozen Fields is free and open-source software. The add-on code that runs within Anki is released under the GNU AGPLv3 license, extended by a number of additional terms. For more information please see the LICENSE file that accompanied this program.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.


The continued development of this add-on is made possible
thanks to my Patreon and Ko-Fi supporters.
You guys rock ❤️ !