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Support for easier Anki card creation (Annotation tags, multi-color highlighting maybe?) #623

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@21mi

Can you please consider adding support for a way to make Anki card creation more streamlined or at least easier for simple Templater scripts to Parse/automate the formatting?

My first idea was adding user-defined tags, kind of like Hypothesis does with annotation. Or the ability to define and configure your own custom delimiters, similar to how Obsidian_to_Anki plugin lets you input your custom START and END strings in the settings. This would allow us to wrap text in user-defined symbols to perform specific actions. A great use case is for users who want to replicate Anki's cloze deletion functionality, like {{c1::some text}}, but with their own preferred characters.

Another idea was "highlight colors" (e.g., yellow for Q&A fronts, blue for answers/backs, green for Cloze deletions, etc) in the Web Clipper. This would output unique HTML/CSS (e.g., <mark style="color: red">text</mark>) instead of just ==text==, making it easier to automate Anki card generation via plugins like Templater and Obsidian_to_Anki.

Reason for requesting this:
Currently, the single ==text== highlight works for basic markup but requires manual post-editing for Anki workflows: wrapping answers in custom symbols for Q&A cards or adding curly braces {} for Cloze cards.

I hope this request isn't asking too much or way out of the scope of Obsidian Web Clipper, but I just wanted to shine some light on this type of usecase.

Thanks

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