Core decks vs extensive reading

(2016-06-09, 4:54 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: (e.g. instead of having a color background button, you have to input the code and look up the proper color name or number... -.-). That should be an advanced feature, not a requirement.

I know, right! When Damien released Anki 2.0 like that I thought he'd lost the plot, and the fact there has never been a UI created to make that stuff more user friendly is baffling to me. I'm about as much of a power user of Anki as they come and that's entirely because I just kept bashing my head against these hurdles until I bled out and died on the sidewalk of life. A lot of people probably bang their head once and look elsewhere, which is a shame because I think an overhaul focused on making Anki more user friendly (without removing any functionality of course) would open it up to a lot more people who might make cool stuff for it. Be that in the form of add-ons or user shared decks, it'd be great for the whole Anki platform to benefit from an influx of users who weren't immediately turned off when they realized they had to actually type the name of a font. No software has ever made me do that... What the didgeridoo! I'm still perplexed by the fact it hasn't been changed. Maybe life got in the way of finding the time for that―the perils of a (largely) one man endeavor and all that.

(2016-06-09, 5:17 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: I think I understand how to set up the fields, but I have no idea how the tool identifies which deck the card goes into and which note type should be used. Do you need to use a specific note that the Anki add-on generates as you install it or something?

Are you following the instructions on http://rikaisama.sourceforge.net/ ? I remember really taking my time to read all that stuff carefully and go through it step by step when I finally decided I needed to get in on some of that hot import action.