Package names, trees, delimiters and containers

[langfield]

Hey! Love the project! 😀 I made a work-in-progress PR, but feel free to ignore any or all of my suggestions and soldier on how you will!

I don't think I have a ton of time to mess with this at the moment, but I have a couple of notes you might be interested in.

• There exist things like pptree and treelib which allow nice visualizations. There are probably libraries out there that will do a topological sort for you. No sense implementing this yourself.
• Alternatively, you could roll your own Node type, possible using dataclasses.
• The anki API is such that I am not sure you need to be dealing with tag delimiters at all. Take a look at Note.tags, which is just a list[str].
• Since for our purposes tags are probably functionally unordered, you may want to look into using set in certain places instead of list. This may make things easier to reason about.

I appreciate the shout-out in your repository name, haha! Some alternatives you might consider if you feel like distinguishing your project from ki:

• topsort
• ord
• notesort
• prerequisites
• prereqs
• note-dependencies

[pwintz]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll look into the libraries.

I'm still thinking about alternative names. I'd like to find a relevant Anki-based pun that works. For now, beyondki ('be-(y)an(d)ki") was the best I could come up with.

Maybe ankiwords ("anki keywords") would be a decent alternative, since prerequisites are, in a sense, keywords. Another fun Anki pun is ankixote (after "Don Quixote") ...but, unfortunately, it doesn't fit the theme of the project.

[pwintz]

Another decent name option would be planki since we are making a tool to plan out when cards are introduced in Anki.

[langfield]

Another decent name option would be planki since we are making a tool to plan out when cards are introduced in Anki.

This is my favorite of the ones you proposed, but it does bring to mind lumber-related things, lol. 🪵 🌳

[pwintz]

I'm on board with lumber-based branding. That wood be a tree-t, in fact.

[langfield]

You could sort of add a degree of separation and just pick something lumber-themed that doesn't contain the anki substring. That's sort of what I did with ki. I searched for tokens containing ki, found kakigori, which is a kind of Japanese shaved-ice, and then came up with ankigori. But I thought that was dumb, so just shortened it to ki. I still think ki is kind of dumb. 🤷🏻

You could just call it lumber, or name it after a tree? There's lots of good tree names. Maybe bristlecone, since that is the longest living tree, and the whole idea is to retain information long-term. Or just call it plank? These are just ideas.