By living deck, I mean a deck that can grow as you grow in knowledge. This is not by adding more cards but by changing up the cards you are already reviewing, more specifically Kanji cards.
If anyone's seen the decks I post to Anki, you notice I try to include a large amount of information: Heisig Number, Heisig Keyword, RTK Number, Kanken Level, Stroke count, etc. Unfortunately, I think two important things were missing that prevented this from being a very good "living deck". There are no common Onyomi words (in kanji and kana), and the common Kunyomi words are do not have a block for their Kanji version.
Now, I manipulated Katsuo's spreadsheet to create the Kunyomi words (kana and kanji). Now I just need a spreadsheet of common onyomi words. For that I think three words max per kanji per yomi (ie if there's two yomi for a kanji then six onyomi words will be listed for that kanji).
With the above, a person can change up their RTK reviews in bits and pieces as time goes on with relative ease based on their individual learning situation.
Example: A person is studying via JLPT levels. She finishes level 4, so she uses Anki to sort by JLPT level, selects all the JLPT 4 kanji, then converts those cards to be cards that test Kana kunyomi+onyomi to Kanji. She can also create Kanji Kunyomi+Onyomi cards to test her knowledge of yomi.
Later she finds KO2001 and likes the set. She learns all the words, so she decides to pause any kanji that are in KO2001. If she wanted to, she could do like she did with JLPT 4 and simulate "Japanese Keywords" via the Kana Onyomi+Kunyomi cards.
Even later, she does Movie Method for all of RTK1 and RTK3. Wanted to keep that knowledge sharp, she creates Kanji Onyomi+Kunyomi cards (though she only cares about Onyomi) to see if she knows that Kanji's onyomi and basic meaning (via Keyword or kanji definition).
I've posted this elsewhere, but you're doing yourself a favor by starting off with a more verbose RTK deck. It allows you to modify quickly, specifically and in bulk. Hopefully RevTK will be adapted to allow users to do something similar.
If anyone's seen the decks I post to Anki, you notice I try to include a large amount of information: Heisig Number, Heisig Keyword, RTK Number, Kanken Level, Stroke count, etc. Unfortunately, I think two important things were missing that prevented this from being a very good "living deck". There are no common Onyomi words (in kanji and kana), and the common Kunyomi words are do not have a block for their Kanji version.
Now, I manipulated Katsuo's spreadsheet to create the Kunyomi words (kana and kanji). Now I just need a spreadsheet of common onyomi words. For that I think three words max per kanji per yomi (ie if there's two yomi for a kanji then six onyomi words will be listed for that kanji).
With the above, a person can change up their RTK reviews in bits and pieces as time goes on with relative ease based on their individual learning situation.
Example: A person is studying via JLPT levels. She finishes level 4, so she uses Anki to sort by JLPT level, selects all the JLPT 4 kanji, then converts those cards to be cards that test Kana kunyomi+onyomi to Kanji. She can also create Kanji Kunyomi+Onyomi cards to test her knowledge of yomi.
Later she finds KO2001 and likes the set. She learns all the words, so she decides to pause any kanji that are in KO2001. If she wanted to, she could do like she did with JLPT 4 and simulate "Japanese Keywords" via the Kana Onyomi+Kunyomi cards.
Even later, she does Movie Method for all of RTK1 and RTK3. Wanted to keep that knowledge sharp, she creates Kanji Onyomi+Kunyomi cards (though she only cares about Onyomi) to see if she knows that Kanji's onyomi and basic meaning (via Keyword or kanji definition).
I've posted this elsewhere, but you're doing yourself a favor by starting off with a more verbose RTK deck. It allows you to modify quickly, specifically and in bulk. Hopefully RevTK will be adapted to allow users to do something similar.
