How would it save time or effort?

Ask a native speaker, and they'll tell you that Japanese TTS software is not quite natural.

And if you're just listening to the text rather than saying it yourself, you're just being passively exposed to it instead of actively practicing it. I don't think that would be good for your retention ratio.

I'm using Anki to review for the Kanken next month. I have run into some issues and would like to know if there are features that already solve them or ways to get around them. A lot of it revolves around having a lot of information simultaneously in multiple categories.

1. Is there any way to show tags in the review? I tag all my cards by jouyou level and also by parts of speech and would like to see them during reviews. I realize I can copy and paste them into a new custom field, but it would be much easier not to have to.

2. Can I rearrange the order fields are shown on the cards?

3. Reviewing by tags. Can I review a set of tags with all the others turned off, then turn that set off and review the others? For example, say I want to review jouyou 1 & 2 compounds, but seperately. Can I turn all but 1, review, turn off 1, and then review 2? Does that make sense?

4. Is there a way to copy/paste cards between decks? Is there a way to simply combine decks? If I can only combine, is there a way I can save several copies of a deck, delete the uneeded cards, and then combine the wanted cards with another deck?


A couple problems:

1. When I sort cards, they do not always sort perfectly by the desired method. For example, if I sort by Expression, I want to see all the kanji compounds grouped at the top or bottom of the list. Now, they are scattered around.

2. (Maybe directly related), I changed my model after I had already input some cards. I've tried to change the model to apply to all the cards in the deck, but some will not display the added fields. I've tried to change the model with both forms of cards but it will not apply throughout the deck.


Thanks for your help. I love Anki!

Thanks for the display tips.

Micromanaging a deck isn't a bad thing. I need it to focus on test materials. Here's a better description of my problem: every vocab I enter is tagged with their jouyou level. For example, 横断歩道 gets 8, 6, 9, 9. I am taking level 8 so I would like to review every compound that has a level 8 in it. But I want to exclude any words that do not include at least on level 8 kanji. More clearly, how do I study 8 and block 6 and 9 in other words without the above example being blocked?

So there's no way to apply model properties universally? I've applied the same characteristics to my models to make them the same, but they still don't sort correctly.

dingomick wrote:

Micromanaging a deck isn't a bad thing. I need it to focus on test materials. Here's a better description of my problem: every vocab I enter is tagged with their jouyou level. For example, 横断歩道 gets 8, 6, 9, 9. I am taking level 8 so I would like to review every compound that has a level 8 in it. But I want to exclude any words that do not include at least on level 8 kanji. More clearly, how do I study 8 and block 6 and 9 in other words without the above example being blocked?

Suspend all your cards.
In the edit deck window, use the Tags dropdown box to display only the cards with the certain tag(s) that you desire.
Un-suspend those cards.

Happy New Year to All!

A new year, new school term and a new Anki and I've decided to get on with studying and stop thinking about it so much.  My still new goal is to add the vocab from Kanji in Context to my Anki studies and I tried typing them up with about six fields. Tedious. Was trying to scan the book and although promising, I'd still have to add fields and I'm pretty lazy.

SO, back to Wakan. I look-up the words I want(don't already know) and save them to a list, KIC1, for example, for Chapter 1 words.  Afterwards, I wind up with WORD, PRONUNCIATION, MEANING, CHAPTER.  Also, it allows you to edit the meaning of each word while saving it to the list which came up quite a few times.

Then I set up the matching fields in Anki and imported them.  I figured out how to display other fields so on the front of the card is the Chapter and Word, while Pronunciation and Meaning are on the back. BTW, nice to know you can do that with tags.

I haven't really explored all Anki has to offer since I imported the entire Joyo list and have worked on that exclusively, previous false starts on other decks aside .

And this leads me to ask all of you not so much WHAT you study, but HOW are you getting your data in? Entire lists, card by card? Is there a better, less time consuming way I need to be aware of?

Cheers.

I basically do what wrightak does and just put in a file to import later. Recently I found a plugin for Firefox called Perapera-kun and I've decided to use it. It's basicly rikai-chan with the ability to save the highlighted entry to file.  It saves it in as a .csv, so I can import it with Anki. Sadly the file is sjis encoded, which anki doesn't like.  So I wrote a plugin (it's really hackish), that lets Anki import sjis .csv files. I suppose the next logical thing to do would be writing a plugin that auto-imports a specified file whenever Anki starts....

Here's a link to Perapera-kun: http://perapera.wordpress.com/perapera-kun/
Here's a link to the Anki plugin page: http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/Plugins

I'm pretty fast just entering by hand, but I'm working from a textbook so everything is already all in the same place. I look it up in Wakan, type my chosen definition, and enter the tags for kanken level, and part of speech. It's slow enough that I get review and benefit from doing it, but fast enough that it's not frustratring.

1. there is no 'reading field' in the search results - there is only the 'question' and the 'answer'. Fiddle with the question or answer format and figure out the problem (you're probably referencing a field which doesn't always exist, like %(myfield)s on a model with no 'myfield)

2. the furigana is already displayed in the answer. I don't see the need to include it in the question as well

Is there a way to find and replace a lot of values at once (in a particular field)? Sort of like the Find and Replace feature in a word processor.

And I get the follow error whenever I start Anki - "Missing msvcp71.dll"

Last edited by atreya (2008 January 09, 9:09 pm)

atreya: re the dll issue, http://repose.ath.cx/tracker/anki/issue303

As for bulk search and replace, you can do it programmatically with a plugin.

JimmySeal: you're welcome :-)

I'm running Anki on my PC, not the website.  At the bottom of the display it says "Remaining: 56".  When I go to the Charts display, today's "Due Cards" are between 50 and 60, could be 56.  Does this mean:
  a) Remaining cards and Due Cards are always equal?
  b) There are 56 cards due now and between 50 and 60 cards will become due later today?
  c) Of the 50-60 "Due Cards," 56 are due right now, and 2 or 3 will become due later today?

Thanks, sorry if this has been answered before.