Highlight Search Results in the Browser for Anki

The quickest way to find information on your flashcards

This is an add-on for the spaced-repetition flashcard app Anki that extends Anki's card browser with the ability to highlight search terms found in notes.

Table of Contents

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

Installation

AnkiWeb

The easiest way to install Highlight Search Results in the Browser is through AnkiWeb.

Manual installation

Please click on the entry corresponding to your Anki version:

Recent Anki 2.1 versions

Note: These instructions only work on Anki 2.1.17 and up. For older Anki releases please see the next section.

1. Download the latest .ankiaddon file from the releases tab (you might need to click on Assets below the description to reveal the download links)
2. Open the folder where your downloads are located and double-click on the downloaded .ankiaddon file.
3. Follow the installation prompt and restart Anki if it asks you to

Older Anki 2.1 versions

1. Make sure you are using at least Anki 2.1.10. 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 Tools → Add-ons
4. Drag-and-drop the .ankiaddon package onto the add-ons list
5. Restart Anki

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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/highlight-search-results.git
cd highlight-search-results
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

Highlight Search Results in the Browser is Copyright © 2017-2020 Aristotelis P. (Glutanimate)

Highlight Search Results in the Browser 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.

Please note that this program uses the Libaddon library which comes with its own additional terms extending the GNU AGPLv3 license. You may only copy, distribute, or modify the present compilation of this program with Libaddon under the combined licensing terms specified by both licenses.

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

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