I've just started studying RTK Vol 1. As I study, I am trying to create an Anki deck corresponding to what I have studied. But in order to put the kanji in the "Kanji Field" of the Anki deck, I need to know how to pronounce it in order to type it in. This leaves me flipping through all the other Kanji books trying to find the kanji from stroke number or looking up the keyword in a dictionary to find the Kanji. It's seems a silly waste of time. Plus not all the RTK Kanji are represented exactly.

This cannot be right. What is the simplest way to create an Heisig Anki Card without going through every other book I own to do it? Someone out there must have a better answer than I have found. Help please.

Thanks,

Thomas

Anki comes with a Heisig deck. It's one of the sample decks.

I've been using wrightaks' JRtK deck here:

http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/ExtraDecks

I recommend using the flash card system we have on this site over using Anki, mostly because it's more convenient because it's very easy to add new stories, and to recall those stories when you're going through your flash card repetitions. I do recommend Anki for anything else you may be doing, though.

Anyway, what I did before using this site was use the IME pad to write in characters. You can do it with the mouse, but it's cumbersome and I usually used my graphics tablet instead. I imagine you probably don't have one unless you're an artist... using the mouse is still faster than looking it up in a book, though.

- Kef

Or you can just copy paste the kanji from this site. That's what I did before I realised there were premade decks. I use a full RTK1+3 deck and have all the cards tagged "suspended", then remove the suspended tag as I learn them.

A quick question: is the premade RTK 1 + 3 deck in heisig order, and is it possible to suspend all of the cards you have not learned yet in one go, without having to order them manually?

It is in Heisig order (it wouldn't really be a good Heisig deck if it weren't!), and the cards are easy to put in Heisig order in the editor, since all you have to do is sort them by the "Heisig Number" field. So, you can quickly scroll to the the first frame you haven't learned, and suspend it and everything after it.

Anki tests you on those cards in order as long as you don't have it set to random. Check Edit, Deck Properties, Scheduling, Show new cards in the order they were added.

Also, due cards are always tested before new cards so you can keep answering cards until you come to the frame number you're at, and then stop and come back when the cards you answered are due. You don't need to suspend.

That's true. I prefer to suspend though, so I can selectively add RTK3 cards or add cards out of order (which I needed to do for coursework kanji before I was finished RtK). Also doing it that way would mean you couldn't add any other cards until you finished RtK. I keep all my cards together.

And yeah, just sort by Heisig number, select the first one you don't know, scroll right down, hold shift and select the last one. Then you can tag them all suspended at once.

I have a quick question about Anki and RTK1.
I'm using both this site and anki to study, but I wanna go both ways. Right now my anki only uses production (from keyword to kanji), but I wanna use recognition (from kanji to keyword/story), too.
I've played around with my deck for a while, but I can't seem to activate this function. Can anybody help me out, please?!