I'm trying to pick kanji from the Core 2k/6k Optimized Japanese Vocabulary Deck
that are in a certain Genki Lesson for review so I get a more full feeling.
Honestly I can't see any way that people use the Vocabulary decks other than just picking from them. They're just too big...
For example, I want to search the field Vocabulary-English for the Japanese equivalent of "Now" then move it to a created deck named "Lesson 1 Vocabulary"

Hi BlueBomberXTJ

I'm no anki wizzard, so unfortunately i can't help u with the part ur asking for. However, wouldn't it be better to use the premade 'Genki Deck'?

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/942922371

Hi BlueBomber,

Instead of using a new deck for my textbook vocab, I just add tags to the cards.

I have the huge Core plus deck and I've gotten good at searching for fields using a combination of Kana, kanji, and English for the various fields (e.g. meaning (english), reading (kana), or expression (kanji/kana)). [For more searching tips, look at the Anki guide under "Searching".]

For instance, I'll search for let's say "baseball". When I find it, I'll add "JFE06" to the tags if it from Japanese for Everyone, Chapter 6. Then you can pull up the cards by tag. It's quite handy.

So my search would be:

deck:current meaning:baseball
or
deck:current reading:やきゅう

If you want to study cards in a certain order (i.e. study chapter by chapter): Suspend cards you haven't studied yet (sort based on "due" to find ones that just have numbers instead of dates). Then, I do a search with "tag:JFE06" (or JFE* if you want to be less specific), and then I unsuspend those new cards that I added. Makes it so much easier to study one chapter at a time. It's an alternative (or cheat), to creating a temporary cram deck too.

Hope that makes sense and is not confusing. Eventually, if you wanted, you could export all those textbook cards to a new deck by choosing tags with "Genki." I'm not sure how easy it would be to do this every time you add new cards though. That's why I recommend using tags to sort everything. It will save you lots of time!

I've followed the guides on searching but it's not helping.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong but no results come up but I search
"deck:Vocabulary-English:that kind of"
That should be the first card in every core deck because the Kana are ああ
I get no results.
I've also tried
"deck:Core 2k/6k Optimized Japanese Vocabulary:Vocabulary-English:that kind of"
to no avail. I've heard that you are supposed to quote when there are spaces but it still doesn't work if I remove them. Thanks for the advice on Tagging. I would tag them if I could find the specific ones. Ps. This is not just for Genki, but for Rosetta stone as well among some other books and programs that I need to study certain vocab for.

Try opening the deck as if you were going to review, then do search. That way it is easier to do

deck:current

I'm not sure what you are trying to search for. Are you searching literally for "that kind of"??

If so it would be something like:

deck:"Name of Deck" [field]:"that kind of"

For [field] just put whatever the name of the field is (meaning, definition, etc.). I'm not sure what your deck looks like. If the field is called "Vocabulary-English" then put

Vocabulary-English:"that kind of"

I'm not sure if your deck is called "Vocabulary", and "English" is the field? If that is the case, just do:

deck:Vocabulary English:"that kind of"

You are correct if there are spaces to use quotes, but don't put quotes around the entire thing, just each piece. You need to put spaces between each command like this:

deck:"Japanese Vocabulary" definition:"that kind of"

Make sense?

If you tell me the name of your deck, the name of the field, and the name of the term you are searching for, I can help you.

(EDIT: As it turns out, the Anki manual covers this: http://ankisrs.net/docs/manual.html#searching (under "limiting to a field"). Always read the manual, you guys...)

When you limit your search to a specific field, anki tries to come up with an exact match. So if you're looking for "english:apple", you will only get results from cards with precisely "apple" in the English field. you would NOT get results for:
"red apple"
"apple juice"
"ApplexApple"

To get around this, simply add wildcard characters to your search. for example, if you search for:

english:*apple*

you would get all the above cards.

Some notes that might be useful:
*To do a field search, there's no need to specify the deck (unless of course you want to limit results to that specific deck). FIELDNAME:*text* is all you really need to type in, as per the example above.
*Search is not case sensitive for any category (deck name, field name, text, etc.)
*you don't need quotations when using wildcards on both ends of the text. *red apple* and "*red apple*" translate logically to the exact same search.