This sucks... I was just taking a break from Trinity because I get overwhelmed by SRSs sometimes. I'm using Anki right now but...
Damn, I don't know anything about scripts or importing.

I wrote the export scripts and should update the site this weekend.

The vocab file format will be comma-separated CSV, with following column data:

* compound : as in JMDICT
* reading : as in JMDICT
* glossary : as in JMDICT, a concatenation of all definitions for given vocab item
* itemid : the dictionary id from JMDICT (ent_seq)
* dateadded
* lastreview
* leitnerbox : as on this site's review system, 1 is the first box so it means failed/red card if lastreview is not null, if lastreview is zero, it's a blue card
* failcount
* passcount

The sentences file format will be comma-separated CSV, with following column data:

* question : the sentence itself (normally this is japanese sentence)
* answer : any text you entered in the desription box, may be empty, or may be a translation if you inputted english text there
* spakid : sentence pack id, a number unique per sentence-pack
* spaktitle : title of the sentence collection this sentence belongs to
* lastedited
* dateadded
* lastreview
* leitnerbox : as on this site's review system, 1 is the first box so it means failed/red card if lastreview is not null, if lastreview is zero, it's a blue card
* failcount
* passcount


Here's a couple links to ease the transition:

Importing in Anki
Importing in Mnemosyne

The files will be comma-separated, I think Anki will recognise it. But in any case from OpenOffice Calc or other spreadsheet application you should be able to export/save as CSV and choose TAB separated fields.

Most likely you'll want to delete the extra columns which you won't need, but may want to use for other ends.

I selected the first two columns to match logical "question" and "answer" sides, so in the simplest case you'll probably delete all columns BUT the first two, save again or export to tab-separated + utf8 format, then import in the flashcard software.

PS: unfortunately that will reset your review status. I think in Anki you can import items   as if they were learned a while ago? I can't help much with that, but there are lots of people here who will be able to help.

MethodGT wrote:

I'm just hoping it'll automatically know when my next reviews are scheduled, so I don't have to start all over again with my thousands of cards.

You won't be able to, at least not easily I'm afraid. I don't think Anki imports review schedule or has a format for importing review schedule.

However members before have shared a script to import the RevTK review status into Anki.

The script assumes the RevTK export format for the kanji flashcards:

framenum    lastreview    expiredate    leitnerbox    failurecount  successcount

Perhaps someone here can help you with adapting the python script to use the format of the trinity exports above (the review schedule data works exactly the same way, but the displayed flashcard data is different).

PS: I will do some minor adaptations to more closely match the format which is expected by the python script Asriel shared. Maybe he'll be able to help. The blocker seems to be the assumption about a "Heisig model" and the fact that it reads a framenumber, where as with the exports above you will get a question and answer data for each card. I can't help with Python nor Anki I'm afraid, as I have no experience with them.

No worries, we'll sort you out. Once the export is live, we can try to contact the script author (Asriel), he actually had posted his gmail address in the topic.

Otherwise I'm pretty sure we have Python script Ninjas onboard who can adapt the script for you. It doesn't seem like it would require a lot of change to work.

Now that there are links up on the front page I figured out how to get my stuff into Anki. I thought I had to do something with those scripts posted above myself o_o;

Oops just noticed I left a "www.x.com" in the trinity message. It's a placeholder url that I forgot to replace with the proper link to this topic. Thankfully it points to a "regular" site.. o_O

Hmm, I see, I tried with Excel 2007 here, and it does not let you pick the character type. Furthermore, it doesn't support the BOM mark, so even when I manually added the BOM mark with UtlraEdit conversion features, it did not work. It seems Excel supports only certain encoding types. Wow.

Edit: We have two solutions!

Importing in OpenOffice
Make sure to select "CSV" file type in the drop down. Then you should get extra options after you pick the file : choose UTF-8, and separated by comma (not tabs). Now all Japanese characters should appear correctly. You will see that every time you change one of those options the preview will show you in real time, what the import will look like.

Importing in Google Spreadsheets
Tada! Google to the rescue. Select File > New > Spreadsheet, then Import, select the trinity_vocab.csv file (or sentences). Edit in there, or File > Download As > Excel, and voila monsieur! Google is smart enough to detect both the CSV format and the encoding.

Trinity gone?
EXtremely disappointed.
I didn't use it very much because I was too busy learning RTK.
But I'm through with that now and ready for Trinity.
It has some very nice features I do not see in other web pages.
Tried Anki, just confusion.
We want Trinity!  We want Trinity!
I guess you can't just create a Trinity webpage separate from this one and let it run itself with no forums and no corrections for hangups.
Darn!   I'll get over it.

I didn't want to discontinue Trinity but it was difficult to maintain it due to structural changes in the database to do with the refactored RevTK.

I want to refactor Trinity as well someday, and redesign its workflow.. but right now I need to focus on remaining issues with RevTK and missing functionality like custom keywords to support non-english users; and RevTH.

I haven't given up on Trinity but it will be on hold for a long while..