I'm passing from english definitions to monolingual ones. Problem: I've already my 10'000+ cards added and reviewing...
The solution would be a script that copies the monolingual definition of a word and puts it in a field of an already existing card.
I've already posted in the support section of the Anki site, and they told me that script doesn't exist yet.

If someone have the same issue we could unite and ask for a script for a fee.
(maybe a customization of Epwing2Anki or Rikaisama would suffice)

If you can get a dictionary in a text format, you could make a csv with word in one column and definition in another. Then you could import into anki and update your existing cards with a new japanese definition field.

How can I check how many new cards I have remaining in a new deck on Anki 2?

I knew how to check that on Anki 1 but on the new version I can't find it

The way I know how to do it is to click on the deck then click on the stats button up the top, and scroll down to the bottom of the stats page, and you'll dee a pie chart that'll show how many new cards you have.

Hi there, I'm new to the forum, but I'm currently at about number 1650 in RTK. It's a journey I've been enjoying very much, although I am wearying slightly! I've actually suspended any other type of Japanese language learning, other than conversation at the conversational level that I already possess, until I learn all the Joyo kanji.

I'm not very experienced with Anki. I've used it a little with Minna No Nihongo decks and found that pretty simple to use. My question is how do I set up the Anki so that it only shows me cards from the RTK deck, that I've already studied? Will it reveal them to me in order from the beginning of RTK? Or is it randomised from the whole of RTK?

Thank you, and apologies if this is a stupid question or if I'm repeating somebody else's.

Ziggaman.

Ziggaman Wrote:Hi there, I'm new to the forum, but I'm currently at about number 1650 in RTK. It's a journey I've been enjoying very much, although I am wearying slightly! I've actually suspended any other type of Japanese language learning, other than conversation at the conversational level that I already possess, until I learn all the Joyo kanji.

I'm not very experienced with Anki. I've used it a little with Minna No Nihongo decks and found that pretty simple to use. My question is how do I set up the Anki so that it only shows me cards from the RTK deck, that I've already studied? Will it reveal them to me in order from the beginning of RTK? Or is it randomised from the whole of RTK?

Thank you, and apologies if this is a stupid question or if I'm repeating somebody else's.

Ziggaman.

If you click on any deck, go to Options (bottom), New Cards tab, you'll see a drop-down menu called Order, and the default is "Show new cards in order added", which will show them from the beginning (unless the creator of the deck was very careless).

Is this what you mean? It sounds like you got to 1650 outside Anki and you want to tell Anki that you know the first 1650 all at once. If that's the case, then this is doable but complicated. But let us know more about your situation.

いらっしゃいいらっしゃい！

Ah yes, exactly Aldebrn!

Thank you for your reply. I have got to 1650 just using the RTK website, and my own reviewing technique as well (I've hand-made record cards, drawing the kanji with my shyodo writing brush, which has been laborious, but has really given me a flavour for writing in Japanese), but now there's so many kanji floating around my noggin I'd really like to use the spaced repetition method to review the ones I need to review more, and the ones I don't need to less.

So, unfortunately you're right, that's exactly what I want to do, but it seems like doing them in the RTK order at first may be the best option, though a little tiresome.

ありがとうございます！

It sounds like you want to start studying cards 1-1650 but you don't want to start out with an interval of 1 day, 3 days, 6 days.... If that's what you want, you can select cards anki's browser and choose "reschedule". If you enter 20 in the field, all the cards will be shown to you 20 days later and it will set the interval to 20 days. You can also choose a random range so they won't be all due on the same day. In my example, unfortunately you won't see any cards until 20 days later, but if you do it in batches (set #1-500 to 45-90 days because they are easier, #501-1000 to 10-44 days because you need to see those cards more frequently, etc...) you can get them pretty well spaced out that way. Once you study them all once and fail a few cards, anki's algorithm will start to take over and set more appropriate intervals moving forward.

I hope that's something like what you are asking for.

What is the difference between a "card" and a "note" aren't they the same thing? I notice that anki has the option to "suspend card" or "suspend note" and I'm wondering why that is.

A note is a fact. A card is a view of that fact generated by one of the note type's card templates - for example, you might have a Core6k note (well, 6000 notes) with a production card and a recognition card.

So if you suspend a note, you suspend all of its cards.

Thank you Yogert909, for your advice. I think I will maybe go through the entire lot with Anki in the order that they are presented, once I've finished RTK completely and, as you say, 'let the algorithm take over'.

Let the algorithm take over sounds like a progressive-house music album.

Thanks Vempele!

Ziggaman Wrote:Thank you Yogert909, for your advice. I think I will maybe go through the entire lot with Anki in the order that they are presented, once I've finished RTK completely and, as you say, 'let the algorithm take over'.

Let the algorithm take over sounds like a progressive-house music album.

I was hoping someone more familiar with this would mention it, but there is an Anki addon that will "space out" your reviews over a specific time horizon, i.e., if you had 100 reviews due tomorrow, this add-on would dynamically space them over, say, the 4 days. I can't remember the name and my google-fu is spent today, maybe someone can point you to that add-on.

aldebrn Wrote:I was hoping someone more familiar with this would mention it, but there is an Anki addon that will "space out" your reviews over a specific time horizon, i.e., if you had 100 reviews due tomorrow, this add-on would dynamically space them over, say, the 4 days. I can't remember the name and my google-fu is spent today, maybe someone can point you to that add-on.

That might be the load balancer add-on. Although load balancer doesn't do it's thing at the press of a button. Instead, each time you do a review, load balancer will adjust the next review date forward or backward by a day or two in order to smooth out the curve a bit.

The "reschedule" function that I mentioned will spread out your reviews at the press of a button over a range that you specify.

About a month ago I started J-J, and it's always frustrated me when I forget the reading of a word in the definition and have to search for it throughout the deck. Today I tried making a copy of the "Japanese Support" plugin and changing some things in a attempt to make it work with different fields. However with my limited programming knowledge (0 of which is python) I couldn't get it to work, so that's why I'm turning here. If anyone would be so kind as to get this to work I would be forever grateful. I'm sure there must be other people that would find this useful as well.

If there happens to be a plugin that does this already then let me know. In the mean time I'll keep trying to figure this out, though I doubt I'll be able to.

[RawToast]

Personally, I'd go and download the plugin from github, the one on Ankiweb is dated and is harder to setup unless you are using the bundled "Japanese" notetype and fields. I submitted a fix to ease setup the plugin-in but it still hasn't ported to Ankiweb

Take a trip to: https://github.com/dae/ankiplugins/tree/master/japanese and replace the python (.py) files in Anki\addons\japanese with those. Don't bother with the support directory, as the files in that folder haven't changed in years.

With that version you only need to open notetypes.py add your note type to the NOTE_TYPES list e.g. NOTE_TYPES = ["japanese", "mynotetype"] and add your fields you wish to support to SOURCE_FIELDS.

Thank you so much for making this. I'm a little unsure however how to use this. I added the source field I wanted and added it to the back of the card the same way the others are, but it doesn't seem to work ;/

RawToast Wrote:Personally, I'd go and download the plugin from github, the one on Ankiweb is dated and is harder to setup unless you are using the bundled "Japanese" notetype and fields. I submitted a fix to ease setup the plugin-in but it still hasn't ported to Ankiweb

Take a trip to: https://github.com/dae/ankiplugins/tree/master/japanese and replace the python (.py) files in Anki\addons\japanese with those. Don't bother with the support directory, as the files in that folder haven't changed in years.

With that version you only need to open notetypes.py add your note type to the NOTE_TYPES list e.g. NOTE_TYPES = ["japanese", "mynotetype"] and add your fields you wish to support to SOURCE_FIELDS.

Was messing around with it, and it does work, but only if I automatically input it like "名前[なまえ]" in the correct field. Adding another Source field doesn't seem to actually do anything.

[RawToast]

Ah yes, that fixes the plugin to support the tags in your new field. So now 名前[なまえ] displays with kana if the template refers to it as {{furigana::field_name}}.

I guess you wish for the furigana to be automatically generated? I believe if you enter the card browser there should be a "bulk add readings" option, which will create the [abc] entries

Bulk add readings works for the normal Expression/Reading, but not for the other. I want it to have furigana for the definition that's on the back, as well as the normal front/back reading. I tried making a copy of your plugin and changing everything to the two other fields I'm using for my second Expression/Reading, but that didn't seem to work. It should be possible to do that right?

RawToast Wrote:Personally, I'd go and download the plugin from github, the one on Ankiweb is dated and is harder to setup unless you are using the bundled "Japanese" notetype and fields

What. The. F***. Why the hell does Ankiweb not mirror the Github repo??? I've never heard about it >.<

(Thanks @RawToast!)

[RawToast]

I just installed the plugin and noticed my changes weren't there, my patch was accepted back in June! I guess the authour only wishes to release 'stable' versions. I created that patch as I was as annoyed as everyone else on Ankiweb about the notetype/field support.

I have to nip off to 大学, but I'll have a look later/tomorrow. If the deck is on Ankiweb, give me a link and I'll download it and try to recreate what you want to achieve.

Deck is just a normal J-J deck. If you can figure this out that would be great, I've been trying to figure this out all night, and I'm out of things to try.

Dominic4774 Wrote:Bulk add readings works for the normal Expression/Reading, but not for the other. I want it to have furigana for the definition that's on the back, as well as the normal front/back reading. I tried making a copy of your plugin and changing everything to the two other fields I'm using for my second Expression/Reading, but that didn't seem to work. It should be possible to do that right?

Could it be as easy as (temporarily) changing the name of your Expression field, running 'Bulk add readings" and then changing it back?

Oh my god, it was. I can't believe I didn't think of that rofl