>>> I’d suggest you post this on the Anki forums at https://forums.ankiweb.net since it’s an Anki issue at this point.
Will do. Thanks for your help. On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 18:10:15 UTC [email protected] wrote: > Pretty sure it’s 64-bit. VM on Parallels on my MacBook with the > default license and settings. Can’t imagine why it would matter anyway. > > I’m stumped. I’d suggest you post this on the Anki forums at > https://forums.ankiweb.net since it’s an Anki issue at this point. > > > On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 9:42:30 AM UTC-6 si wrote: > >> Hi Soren. >> >> >>> Do other links to websites work in Anki? Perhaps your default browser >> is configured wrong and Anki can't figure out what to do with links. >> >> I have no problem with Anki opening websites. Anything with the prefix >> "https://"; will open in the browser, but when I use "file://" nothing >> happens. >> >> I also tried this on a totally different Windows 10 machine with an >> almost fresh install and still it wouldn't work. It also didn't work when I >> tried clicking the link from AnkiWeb. This was all with me creating the >> link exactly as you describe above (the file opens if I copy the path >> directly into the browser). >> >> Did you try it on a 64 bit Windows 10, or some earlier version (no idea >> if that would matter)? >> >> On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 13:20:43 UTC [email protected] wrote: >> >>> I just tried it on Windows and it works fine for me. Downloaded an HTML >>> to my desktop and added to the card: >>> >>> <a href="file://C:/Users/soren/Desktop/test.html">link</a> >>> >>> Click the link and test.html opens in the browser. >>> >>> I'm on Anki 2.1.34 (a couple versions behind, but can't think of >>> anything that would have changed here). >>> >>> Do other links to websites work in Anki? Perhaps your default browser is >>> configured wrong and Anki can't figure out what to do with links. >>> >>> On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 6:18:22 AM UTC-6 si wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Soren thanks for your reply. >>>> >>>> >>> The URL you list is not a valid file: URL, however -- it needs to >>>> use forward slashes even on Windows. >>>> >>>> Thanks, I wasn't sure which to use here but I had tried every >>>> combination and it still didn't work. >>>> >>>> >>> It does appear that the permalink generation in TiddlyRemember >>>> applied during the sync is incorrectly putting a backslash at the end of >>>> URLs that can't accept one there. >>>> >>>> I had noticed this, but I have tested with the correct permalink and it >>>> still won't work. I've also tried putting the HTML directly into the card >>>> (<a >>>> href="file:///C:/Users/Si/Desktop/file.html">link</a> using >>>> Ctrl+Shift+X), but again when I click the link while viewing the card >>>> nothing happens. >>>> >>>> I've noticed that there is an add-on >>>> <https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/879473266> for opening files in an >>>> external program. I got it to work with an HTML file, but because it looks >>>> for a specific extension at the end of the path, it doesn't work with >>>> permalinks that end in "#tiddler". >>>> >>>> Is it possible that Anki just can't open external HTML files on Windows? >>>> On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 00:08:42 UTC [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>>> Si, >>>>> >>>>> It works for me when I just paste an <a href> tag into the HTML editor >>>>> directly on a card (Ctrl-Shift-X while you have a field selected). The >>>>> URL >>>>> you list is not a valid file: URL, however -- it needs to use forward >>>>> slashes even on Windows. It's possible that is the issue, but I don't >>>>> have >>>>> a Windows machine handy at the moment to test on and see if that breaks >>>>> something. >>>>> >>>>> It does appear that the permalink generation in TiddlyRemember applied >>>>> during the sync is incorrectly putting a backslash at the end of URLs >>>>> that >>>>> can't accept one there. On my first try I ended up with >>>>> "/home/soren/test.html/#TiddlerName" as the permalink, which is invalid >>>>> since an HTML file is not a directory, and this resulted in nothing >>>>> happening when I clicked the link. I opened an issue >>>>> <https://github.com/sobjornstad/TiddlyRemember/issues/31> for that. >>>>> To see if this is what's causing your problem, you can try manually >>>>> changing the text in the Permalink field of a card and removing that >>>>> extra >>>>> slash. >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 3:55:47 PM UTC-6 si wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Soren. >>>>>> >>>>>> This might be more of an Anki question, but I have been unable to get >>>>>> permalinks to work in the way that you describe here >>>>>> <https://sobjornstad.github.io/TiddlyRemember/#Configuring%20the%20Anki%20add-on> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>>> It seems to me that Anki won't open files that are outside of the >>>>>> "collection.media" folder. I've been trying all sorts of permutations of >>>>>> <a >>>>>> href="file:///C:\path\to\file.html">link</a> but when I click the >>>>>> link nothing happens. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there some trick to get this to work that I'm not aware of? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 14:13:39 UTC+1 [email protected] >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> It's a thought. A simple SR algorithm is not particularly hard, so >>>>>>> that would be doable. But recently I've been seeing sites pop up that >>>>>>> all >>>>>>> do their own spaced-repetition implementation, and the result is if you >>>>>>> use >>>>>>> more than one of them, pretty soon you have 8 places to go every day to >>>>>>> review flashcards. I'd rather not be responsible for a fifteenth >>>>>>> competing standard <https://xkcd.com/927/>. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Anki also has a really nice mobile app, which is something TW still >>>>>>> struggles with. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 5:07:12 AM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Build the whole solution in tiddlywiki would do it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Tony >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/bb4a3e81-5d74-479c-ad9e-522ae2e3ba0en%40googlegroups.com.
