org-drill-table

DEPRECATION NOTICE: I've found Anki to be significantly more practical than org-drill for language learning, so this package isn't getting a ton of love. 😅 I'm keeping this up in cos people might find it useful, but it's not actively updated.

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Easily generate org-drill cards using org-mode tables.

Summary

Some types of information, such as vocabulary lists, yearn to be represented in tables. However, org-drill requires individual headlines with the "drill" tag; creating these can be laborious and it is difficult to get an overview of your cards when the buffer is folded.

This package provides a command, org-drill-table-generate, that will generate drill cards based on an org-mode table in the current subtree. The cards will be inserted under a new "Cards" heading in the current tree.

For example, given the following org headline,

* Vocab
| English   | Spanish |
|-----------+---------|
| Today     | Hoy     |
| Yesterday | Ayer    |
| Tomorrow  | Mañana  |

invoking org-drill-table-generate will generate cards for each table row:

* Vocab
:PROPERTIES:
:DRILL_HEADING: Noun
:DRILL_CARD_TYPE: twosided
:DRILL_INSTRUCTIONS: Translate the following word.
:END:
| English   | Spanish |
|-----------+---------|
| Today     | Hoy     |
| Yesterday | Ayer    |
| Tomorrow  | Mañana  |
** Cards
*** Noun                                                            :drill:
:PROPERTIES:
:DRILL_CARD_TYPE: twosided
:END:
Translate the following word.
**** English
Today
**** Spanish
Hoy
*** Noun                                                            :drill:
:PROPERTIES:
:DRILL_CARD_TYPE: twosided
:END:
Translate the following word.
**** English
Yesterday
**** Spanish
Ayer
*** Noun                                                            :drill:
:PROPERTIES:
:DRILL_CARD_TYPE: twosided
:END:
Translate the following word.
**** English
Tomorrow
**** Spanish
Mañana

org-drill-table-generate checks the existing list of cards so it does not add duplicates.

This package provides an additional command, org-drill-table-update, which can be added to org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook.

Installing

You will need Emacs 24+, make and Cask to build the project.

cd org-drill-table
make && make install

Contributing

Yes, please do! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

License

See COPYING. Copyright (c) 2014 Chris Barrett.