having difficulty connecting to Anki on macOS

[paj80paj]

nice extension. I expect it to be very useful.
unfortunately right now I get the following error:

Deck not sent: request to http://127.0.0.1:8765/ failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:8765

my markdown looks like this

new deck title

first question

here is a bunch of text that's not very useful and is the answer to my first question

second question

here is some more text it's not very meaningful blah blah blah

[jasonwilliams]

@paj80paj silly question but is Anki running? And do you have AnkiConnect installed?

[paj80paj]

I didn't realize that you needed Ankiconnect and it works fine now

[paj80paj]

thank you for a prompt answer to an Anki Newbie