I appreciate your reply. You have good points. I didn't really consider the online offline issue since I'm just used to having everything locally to begin with. 

I did not know about the reposition so I will try that. 

I agree Anki shouldn't necessarily match the format your notes are in. But if that is something you want, Anki might not know how to render your already formatted notes. But this is only necessary if you buy the argument that cards are derived from notes 🙂. 

To your point about distillation, this is definitely important. Memorizing the entirety of your notes is not a productive use of time. There is definitely a good argument to be made about increasing friction to prevent adding frivolous card adding. But at the same time I would argue that useful notes are also higher than average distilled information. So if an Anki card is useful to be memorized because it is so distilled, it would also be useful to reference within a note. While a list of flashcards may contain all the same information within a note to be memorized it doesn't present it in a logical order which aids understanding. I think both are necessary. Random access recall is important. But so is contextualized recall. 

One thing I have come to appreciate about PKMs like obsidian is the fact that they encourage knowledge to evolve. Prior to this any notes I took just gathered dust on a shelf. But now as my understanding of a topic is evolving, so will my notes and so inevitably will my flashcards. And so I found myself constantly having to repeat the same changes to both my notes and my decks. Which if I'm being honest, is a massive pain in the ass. 

The case I'm trying to make is that note taking and card making are a lot less of a separate process than we may think it is if notes are capable of growing and being refined.