Hey guys,

So I have decided I want to complete RTK Lite. I found a deck on Anki, but it doesn't have any stories included... I really like the stories from the site, and find it much easier to use those instead of coming up with them myself.

I also found another RTK deck which has stories included, but it's not the Lite version.

Question: Is there a way to take a normal RTK anki deck, and somehow suspend all the non-RTK lite cards without going through each one and suspending them manually?

Also what would be the best way to study the RTK Lite kanji since I can't go through the book order. Should I just start learning them in Anki fail them, and come back to them later?

Hopefully this made sense lol

Thanks

I'll make a deck with the top two stories if you like. It's just a matter of csv manipulation.

As for the best way to study it, I have idea since I do full RTK, but I presume you can just go through the book all the same, missing out the ones that aren't in your deck. That's what I would do...

Deck: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8980026/lite.anki

Wow this pretty much solves my problem! Cheers mate! : )

If you have the RTK 1 and 3 deck I posted, it should have index numbers for KO2k1 and also JLPT.

Say you want to learn KO2k1 book 1 in Heisig order. Sort by KO2k1, suspend anything that's above 555. Done. Now Anki will show you only the KO2k1 book 1 cards in Heisig's order. In addition, you can unsuspend cards that are not in 1-555 but act as primitives if you like

If you like what Frony offered, it's also simple to update your existing Anki file to add these stories. I can post steps if you need.

Nukemarine Wrote:I can post steps if you need.

That would be great if it's not too much trouble : ]

Sententeki Wrote:

Nukemarine Wrote:I can post steps if you need.

That would be great if it's not too much trouble : ]

Sorry for the late reply.

First, make sure your deck has a good identifier item. This is usually Heisig number. If not, this will be difficult.
Next, in a spreadsheet, match up the Heisig number with the double stories.
Highlight both columns, copy that into wordpad or notepad (the columns should appear as tab seperated).
Save this as something like "Temp Import.txt" with UTF-8 encoding.
In Anki, open up your kanji deck
If you have a field for you double stories, use that. OTherwise, make a field by editing your deck properties.
Under file select import.
You should have the option to select "update"
Select with field is the Heisig number or identifier for updating the facts
Map your two columns in field mapping.

Ok, so it actually wasn't that complicated. Still, if you mess up there should be back-up files in your .anki folder.

Nukemarine Wrote:

Sententeki Wrote:

Nukemarine Wrote:I can post steps if you need.

That would be great if it's not too much trouble : ]

Sorry for the late reply.

First, make sure your deck has a good identifier item. This is usually Heisig number. If not, this will be difficult.
Next, in a spreadsheet, match up the Heisig number with the double stories.
Highlight both columns, copy that into wordpad or notepad (the columns should appear as tab seperated).
Save this as something like "Temp Import.txt" with UTF-8 encoding.
In Anki, open up your kanji deck
If you have a field for you double stories, use that. OTherwise, make a field by editing your deck properties.
Under file select import.
You should have the option to select "update"
Select with field is the Heisig number or identifier for updating the facts
Map your two columns in field mapping.

Ok, so it actually wasn't that complicated. Still, if you mess up there should be back-up files in your .anki folder.

Most spreadsheet programs have an "export to CSV" function, which does the same as copying and pasting into notepad, but gives more customization and is less hackish.

NB: It's also possible to do all this with a text editor; I do all CSV work in vim because the macros, regex functions and advanced commands make all jobs so much faster. That's not for everyone though.

The deck that frony0 posted does not work on my desktop anki -the stories do not show up as clickable links on my desktop anki - it says 'story' on the card but when I click it nothing happens.

Any idea why the story link doesn't work for me? Using the latest version anki on a mac. Thanks!

I think this only happens on the first card, try another - The problem is the quotes on the story in the "story 1" field. As a fix, you can use the following in the question template:

Code:

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://kanji.koohii.com/study/?framenum={{text:Heisig number}}">{{{Keyword}}}</a><br><br><span onClick="this.firstChild.style.display='none';this.lastChild.style.display='';" style="cursor:pointer"><span>Story</span><span style="display:none">{{Story 1}}</span></span>

With your customisations of course

Alternatively this one I had a little more fun with:

Code:

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://kanji.koohii.com/study/?framenum={{text:Heisig number}}">{{{Keyword}}}</a><br><br><span onClick="this.firstChild.style.display='none';this.lastChild.style.display='';" style="cursor:pointer"><span>- Story -</span><span style="display:none">{{Story 1}}<br><span onClick="this.firstChild.style.display='none';this.lastChild.style.display='';"><span>- Other story -</span><span style="display:none">{{Story 2}}</span></span></span></span>

ファブリス the pre tags above aren't wrapping text, it goes way of screen in my browser (Chromium 21.0.1180.89-1)

If that's not intentional, you can fix it by making the scrollbox div "height: auto" and the child pre "white-space: pre-wrap;"...

EDIT: That probably is intentional. My bad. Ignore me.

Thanks frony0 it works now!