I've added the following features. My Obsidian plugin API knowledge is still limited so some of these may need to have their own settings entries but I've just implemented them as the default behaviour for the case of the link, everything else is backwards compatible and doesn't break the current way of doing things.

The features are as follows:

• frontmatter support (takes priority over the comment tags):

  • Instead of processing every file in the vault (which created a lot of false cards and littered some template files with card IDs) I added a boolean ankifiable frontmatter entry. only ankifiable files (with ankifiable: True) are scanned for cards.
  • deck: deck name
  • tags: file tags which are also passed on to obsidian. this may break inherited folder tags

• IDs double as Obsidian block ids.

  • new IDs are in the format (^ID\d+) Regex is modified to handle this new ID format as well as the old ones (minor draw back is that it looks weird with the comment wrapping is on (<--^ID\d+-->) so may need some setting magic or completely replace the comment option
  • this new format enables direct linking to the cards from other notes (e.g. I have a note to handle flagged cards which is populated exclusively by embedded card block links which makes it very convenient to go and directly edit the cards in question without having to scroll endlessly to look for them)

• To take full advantage of the previous feature, modified the default link to use the advanced-uri plugin link format so that cards are directly accessible from Anki.

  • One caveat with this is the the vault needs to be scanned twice (first is for the cards to be added and ids generated, then on the second one the ids are added to the links in the card), for me this is a simple case of pressing Alt+A twice, and in any case the default behaviour of linking only to the page still works as previously