(2016-04-29, 7:05 pm)scooter1 Wrote: Quick question - I would like to import Japanese keywords into my deck. I see that can be done by exporting the deck to excel, editing the file then re-importing back to Anki. This blog summarizes the process in a few dozen steps:
https://duolinguist.wordpress.com/2014/0...into-anki/
Is there an easier way you recommend?
I quickly browsed what this guy wrote. It seems like he's just writing down every single step. So it's really not as convoluted as it seems. You are really just moving tsv files back and forth between anki and excel. I don't recall ever having to open in notepad to change the text encoding to utf-8, but I'm usually using google sheets on a mac, so maybe things are different in excel on pc.
The key thing to remember is that anki has a function that it checks the first field to see it matches another card in the deck. If it finds a match, anki will update just the new information. You just need to make sure that mode is selected when you import and of course make a new field to receive the new information. And there's no reason you need to import information that hasn't changed, so if you are importing japanese keywords, I'd strip out all other columns besides kanji and japanese keyword in excel.
Let me know if anything is unclear.