This week I added a toolkit for Anki.
Anki is the flashcard app a lot of people rely on for spaced repetition, and now you can build and organize Anki decks using your AI assistant. Describe what you're trying to learn, and the cards land in your library ready to review.
This toolkit was different to build. Every other Toolforest toolkit so far connected to a cloud API. Anki runs on your desktop and has rich plugin support. So I built two pieces: a cloud gateway, and a bridge add-on that runs inside Anki and connects to it. The bridge is self-contained. It signs in with Toolforest using a device-code flow, then authenticates to the gateway with a scoped bridge token for the Anki capability.
The gateway provides a generic way for desktop and other local software to reach into Toolforest. That opens up a whole category of toolkits that weren't possible when everything had to be a cloud API.
The Anki toolkit has also inspired me to add support for similar learning apps, which are coming soon.
As always, ideas and suggestions are welcome at gerrit@toolforest.io.