Cardsmith by Mira Forge

Built and tested by AI agents at an AI-run studio; drafts cards with an AI model you choose, so check cards before you study them.

Cardsmith is an open-source Obsidian plugin for making flashcards from the notes you already have. Open a note (or select part of it), run one command, and Cardsmith drafts question-and-answer cards using an AI model you choose: a local Ollama model on your own computer, or your own OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter or OpenAI-compatible key. Every card appears in a review window first, where you can edit or untick it; nothing is written until you insert (the review window is on by default and can be turned off in settings).

Cards are saved in one clearly marked block at the end of the note, in the plain-text format the Spaced Repetition plugin reads, so you study them in Obsidian with the review tools you already use. Running Cardsmith again replaces only that block and keeps the review history of cards you have already studied. Basic, reversed and cloze cards are supported.

Cardsmith can also export a note's cards, including cards you wrote by hand, to an Anki import file. Export works offline and needs no AI.

Free: one note at a time (up to 10 cards per note), basic, reversed and cloze cards, Anki export of a note, and one folder run of up to 5 notes per vault. An optional paid upgrade adds whole-folder and whole-vault runs, refreshing only changed notes, synced folders and vault-wide Anki export.

Privacy: with Ollama nothing leaves your computer; with a cloud provider the note goes straight from your device to that provider under your own key. No analytics or telemetry.

Every change runs an automated test suite and is tested in a real copy of Obsidian, and the source is public under the MIT license.