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I would love to give this a shot. Is there any way I can upload my existing Anki decks?

No there is not. I have kind of the feeling that Anki users are tough to convince to switch to an online platform (judging by comments I've received so far). It's tough since you'd have to find a corresponding flash card for each flash card in Anki. But if there was enough interest I'd probably see what I can do. Maybe just provide a JS API so users can write an import script? Just a thought, not a promise.

Uploading Anki decks would be nice just to grow the corpus of cards available on the system.

It would be a bit of a copyright nightmare. My economics cards are _all_ copyright infringing, either copy and pasted summaries or definitions from different textbooks.

There is actually a CSV import at "Create flash cards" in SYL. Obviously no pictures/audio importing possible. But it's nice for some bulk data.

I love Anki because it has LateX support. I wish you did!

Also, I was not able to create a new category. I am learning Circuits right now, which is not an available category.

Please use the category "Engineering". Categories are currently hard coded and some have special handling in front-side code so categories will have to be manually requested.

I think Latex support is interesting. I could lazily load it and then render it. Something to think about for the future...

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