Making great progress on the World Geography and History of Rome projects. The curation and card addition flows for both are refined to a point where adding new cards is rather straightforward.
World Geography
Added a whole new deck: World Countries covering 194 sovereign states, each card showing the highlighted country polygon on a map, flipping to reveal flag, capital, largest city, population, area, languages, and currency.
- Notable quality improvements to the Notable World Cities deck:
- Anki tags - cards tagged by Tier, Continent, Country, plus Capital/UNESCO/GaWC flags for easy filtering.
- Dedicated sort order - cards ordered by continent then country rather than letting Anki decide arbitrarily.
- Pixel-based label offsets - Labels at high latitudes no longer float away from their markers.
- Master CSV corrections - fixed city name discrepancies with Wikipedia, corrected coordinates and metadata.
- Majorly increased the scope of the Natural Earth Features deck. Now includes rivers, lakes and notable peaks as context, all using Natural Earth data. Improved the curation workflow a little bit to offset this.
- Immediately decreased the scope of the Natural Earth Features deck to just cover mountain ranges and created a prototype deck for it. Still many issues to iron out here before re-expanding scope to include everything else.
- Overhauled the pipeline generation script to use an interactive command line interface. No more memorising which flags to combine, just answer the prompts.
The History of Rome
Getting through about 6 episodes of The History of Rome podcast a week. Covered 50 out of 193 episodes so far. Roughly half a year to go.
- Added Roman History content up to the fall of Alesia.
- Coverage now spans from the founding of Rome (753 BC) up to 52 BC.
- Improved validation so card quality is a bit more consistent.
- Added a proper suite of unit tests since the generation scripts have gotten pretty complicated.
- Added a belligerents and outcome header to battle and war cards.
- The generated timeline now shows what events fall under a war much more cleanly.
- Did a full deck review pass to tighten card quality across all episodes added so far.
- Refined the importance scale to be clearer and more consistently applied across cards.
Untitled Writing Project
- Continued writing and worldbuilding.