After my 4 pm–midnight shifts at the boardwalk café in Ocean City, I dump voice memos into Otter and then copy into Anki, but it’s clunky — any app or workflow that auto-builds vocab cards from transcripts? I want to review the exact phrases coworkers use without spending an hour cleaning text.
I use AnkiConnect with a tiny script: after Otter I paste the transcript, it strips filler and turns any quoted bits like ‘we’re 86’d on fries’ into cards in a Shift Phrases deck — GitHub - FooSoft/anki-connect: Anki plugin to expose a remote API for creating flash cards.; I still fix a couple lines but it’s under a minute. Are you on Mac or mostly phone at night?
I’ve had good luck with Obsidian + the Spaced Repetition plugin: share your Otter transcript into a note, run a quick cleaner to drop timestamps/fillers, then a macro makes one card per coworker line (speaker labels can be the back). First-time setup is 10–15 minutes, but after that it’s one tap — like skimming the fryer so you only keep the crispy bits. Plugin: GitHub - st3v3nmw/obsidian-spaced-repetition: Fight the forgetting curve by reviewing flashcards & entire notes on Obsidian; if you’re on iOS I can share the Shortcut that does the cleaning/append step.
Share your Otter export right after the midnight shift into Drafts, run a ‘Clean transcript → TSV’ action, then open the TSV in AnkiMobile to auto-add cards with a date tag; on Android, Tasker can do the same cleanup before a CSV import. Flip on Otter’s Export > punctuation and turn off summary keywords so your ‘exact phrases’ survive the noise. iOS or Android?
Skip the clipboard: on iOS, a Shortcut can regex out timestamps/fillers and send each line with quotes like ‘we’re 86’d on fries’ straight into AnkiMobile via x-callback-url, tagged with the shift date. It’s quicker than AnkiConnect after a 4 pm–midnight shift, but a bit brittle if Otter changes its export. I can share a version that only grabs quoted bits or also catches phrases with ‘86’/‘all day’, @nora_tho80.
I set Otter to auto‑export a TXT to Dropbox; Hazel (https://www.noodlesoft.com) watches the folder, strips timestamps/fillers, wraps coworker lines as cloze like ‘we’re on break till 10’ and sends them to Anki via AnkiConnect, so cards are ready when I get home. Small caveat: it’s Mac‑only unless you swap Hazel for a Make.com watch. Are you on Mac?