Hey folks,

perhaps you have noticed there is an Anki deck on the book called "All about Particles" (highly recommended as it covers the huge topic of particles systematically and once and for all, hopefully!) around. But it contains typing mistakes. I corrected it (everything except the last chapter "Sentence final particles" or so) completely and added a new field called "note" containing the explanation for the example from the book, typed in.

Also I marked the particle which is supposed to be explained by the note in the sentence given on the question card bold. If anyone is interested in further improving it/helping me with the rest, please write in here and you'll get the link for the deck.

I have exams at the moment so I can't help for the next month or so but I was just wondering is there a lot of mistakes and typos in the public AAP deck? I just want to be careful when I use it.

You will recognise it. Quite a lot of "." are missing and make the sentences look ugly. Also it seems like the sentences were not typed in manually but using an OCR method, letting appear greek letters sometimes.

It was just a suggestion making this proper and releasing it for the community, as it's really handsome. Additionally I added the "Note" field which seems to be really useful to me at least as well as the bold-marking of the special particle/construction (idiomatic expressions f.e.) in the sentence being asked.

Hi Tori-kun,

Count me in for editing errors, typos etc.

I've send you a PM/mail.

I'll help out too. I won't be as quick this week since it's finals week and it's crazy, but otherwise, I can help.

I can help with some basic editing.

That sounds like something I can help out with. I'm studying Japanese full-time for the next 2 weeks.

Well, it looks like a few people found together and could make this somewhat perfect and complete.
Now I just need to find out how to make this public edittable, hm........

Edit: Public. Download it from the public deck repository in Anki. Cheers!

Tori-kun Wrote:Well, it looks like a few people found together and could make this somewhat perfect and complete.
Now I just need to find out how to make this public edittable, hm........

Edit: Public. Download it from the public deck repository in Anki. Cheers!

お疲れ様でした。

I have edited a lot of the English meaning fields. I uploaded the result as All About Particles Rev 3. Is there a better way to merge changes?

I have no idea how that works, to be honest. There is a key given for that upload I could distribute - is it that one one needs to change the file's content? I'm quite a noob concerning that part of anki haha, so please help!

Ok, I have created a spreadsheet only editable to those having the link. I've send it around to four people in this thread and I hope four are enough to make a the spreadsheet full very soon in order to get a perfect anki deck on this.
Currently I need to repair my windows computer. It seems like it crashed and everything is virtually gone including my thesis for biology I will need to hand in 4 weeks -.- (and yes, my anki decks as well I worked for almost 4 months with). I will need to fix it first, but i'm confident it'll work out. btw, I got my driver's license today \o/

Congratulations on the license.

Can you integrate my changes into the spreadsheet? We'll need some way to synchronize. The nice thing about the Anki deck is that I know more about how to handle it, and I use a Mac, so MicroSoft spreadsheets can be a conversion issue.

*push*
Hm, I had almost every card learnt of this deck and the last backup I did contained only 230 cards so far. All the progress I did in the holidays is gone now and I'm deeply frustrated, that I'm so dependant on these "bits and bytes" on harddisk. Since I installed the new OS and formatted my harddisk, I would like to in a way get the progress from the spreadsheet (all the notes for example! hell of a lot of work!) into my current anki deck without loosing any learning progress again. How's that done exactly/is that possible at all? Please help!

You can import a file of tab-separated facts into Anki. If you use the "update" button on the menu that pops up, you can tell it how to map the facts file onto the cards, and it'll update the text. Please note: the cards must have a unique key that you can specify (one field must be unique on every card). The update routine will delete duplicates.

Hm, since there was less progress on the spreadsheet the last days, I would suggest somebody (as I do not know how that works) compiles a new AAP.anki file and offers it to download..
Then I will try the "update" feature for sure

bertoni Wrote:You can import a file of tab-separated facts into Anki. If you use the "update" button on the menu that pops up, you can tell it how to map the facts file onto the cards, and it'll update the text. Please note: the cards must have a unique key that you can specify (one field must be unique on every card). The update routine will delete duplicates.

Seems like that does not work and I have to dispense with my AAP deck containing my progress (half of the deck! 316 cards) The updating with the new anki deck from the spreadsheet does not work for some reason (0 facts imported) and I cannot update properly. Can someone try? That's my anki deck with my progress already: http://www.multiupload.com/I08NI984SN

Thanks in advance!~

Hmm, I'm not sure what the problem is. I use the Import-><File>->Update feature frequently working on another deck. How did you specify the mapping?

Okay, I downloaded the deck you uploaded. Did you want that merged with the base deck, or what were you trying to do?

bertoni Wrote:Okay, I downloaded the deck you uploaded. Did you want that merged with the base deck, or what were you trying to do?

Erm, the deck I uploaded is the one telling me when the cards are "due", whereas the cards of the newest revision of our colloborational anki file (rev3 would be fine) aren't included in my deck.*

* I mean the "Note" field for example. And the markings in bold in the expression-sentence in the question field.

So my uploaded deck posted above has to be updated with the newest available version to maintain my progress. Thanks! Post the link in here, guess it's nothing secret, right?

I uploaded a new version of the deck as All About Particles Rev 3. I started with your deck, and added my changes, but I'm not sure what you might have changed. I don't think it probably discarded any changes you've made. You should check carefully.

What a pity.. The change from my old anki deck is not included/merged into that revision unfortunately, hm. I wonder why it does not work here?!? I open up my Anki deck for particles, click import, chose the new revision anki deck file and click import, but it does not import/update anything ("nothing imported" comes up only).. Mhh

I have this book at home somewhere, I haven't seen it in like a year.

In order to update, you need to specify the field on which to match cards. The field that works is the 'meaning' field, which is mapped to field 2 in the file. You specify this in the pop-up that shows up when you hit 'update'.