Feature Request: Imitate frozen field addon

A very useful anki addon for the creation of cards with anki desktop is the frozen field addon. From its description: “Anki supports sticky fields. A sticky field is a field whose value is not deleted when you switch to a different note. This can be very useful if you are making many notes in which a field either has the same value or changes very little.”

It would be awesome if there was a syntax to specify sticky fields for a markdown file from which we create anki cards via apy add-from-file input.md.

Just like it is possible to specify the note type (model) for several notes in advance:

        //input.md
        model: Basic
        tags: marked

        # Note 1
        ## Front
        Question?

        ## Back
        Answer.

        # Note 2
        tag: silly-tag

        ## Front
        Question?

        ## Back
        Answer
    

it would be very useful to determine the value of certain fields for all notes in advance.

[lervag]

In general, what is your/the proposed workflow to add many cards with apy within a session. Is there a faster way than: …

Yes! Probably not documented well enough, though. So, instead of

apy add
fill in card 1
:wq

apy add
fill in card 2
:wq

apy add
fill in card 3
:wq

You can do:

apy add
fill in card 1, 2, and 3
:wq

apy add really does the same as apy add-from-file, except the file is created (temporarily) and opened directly by apy, then parsed when it is saved and closed. That is, apy add is equiavalent to creating some new_notes.md file and doing apy add-from-file.

What do you think, do you still find 2) to be necessary to improve?

[lervag]

Great! And of course, feel free to open new issues/feature suggestions 😃