Ok, so I've gone through the first 1k of the core decks on iknow.jp course list and
wrote down the word in hirigana + definition. Anyway, now I want anki for helping me review them. HOWEVER, I can't find a deck that contains the first 1000 words from that list. help me please. there are so many decks to download that finding a good one is not easy at all.

Decks made by Nukemarine are good, you can find them from shared decks by searching for "core 2k/6k". They have plenty of information on the words included (furigana, word type etc), and the words are presented in better order than the original Core series has.

If you want the original order, at least decks found by searching "japanese core 2000 step" have that. They also include audio/images, but other than that have limited information marked on them (no furigana, for example). I used them myself for Core 2k, and switched to Nukemarine decks on 6k. If I could pick again though, I'd use Nukemarine decks for Core 2k as well.

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5091&page=1

You'll to import it yourself, but this will let you view them in whatever order you want.

thanks I found a good one, nukemarine's basic part 1

Core 2k/6k Japanese Vocabulary - Basic pt 1


UHM I'm not sure these are all the same words though?

in the anki deck I found the word hayashi meaning woods or grove
same for some more,
アナウンサ, ボーイフレンド, ぺこぺこ, ぶどう
so not only are words in different order in lists but it switches some words from the later list to this one?

but I don't see the one in any of the first 10 pages on iknow's website

http://iknow.jp/courses/566932#!/