Is there a way to import words from Anki? I have over 2,500 cards that I want to move into a list in Renshuu so I can see which ones I already have when looking up new words.
i havent done this (only done in other direction), but what i'd do is export from anki to a csv (actualy i think it's tab separated file), then parse that into just term carriage return term carriage return like that (u can use whatever tool u want like sed or even python or something) and then copy that list of just the words no definition into the word list/lookup importer screen here on renshuu and you're done
then under one of ur custom lists in renshuu theres box on left for adding terms called Search for Words and just paste in the list of terms and you're finished.
just so you know, i dont think you cant import custom things like custom definitions or anything like that. the words need to correspond to with words here in renshuu's dictionary, i think. idk how mass importation works with telling u if there are missing words. like idk if it fails silently or says like "the following 15 terms were not found in renshuu's dictionary and therefore have been excluded from import".
You can dump them and import into a list or schedule - the main issue is that there is no universal list of ids that can be used to reliably match words from one system to another, especially if it's a "neutral" source like anki. So if you, for example, have a card that says こと on it, there are several possible entries in the dictionary, even if you restrict it just to the more common ones.
So while I *would* like to add more import tools (we have one for wanikani) to renshuu, with most of them, there is still going to need to have a human in the loop to verify many of the matches when there is not a specific entry that we can reliably say is the same one.
I tried copying and pasting a list of just regular vocabulary words into the “add terms individually” area, but only about 600 of the 2.5k words I pasted were added when I selected “add all without duplicates.” I tried the “add all” button instead, but there were still only about 1.8k added. I even tried copying and pasting the words by sections instead, ~500 at a time, but I still got the same results. I don’t know if it’s something wrong with my list of words or something else.
I do not recall the actual number, but there is a hard cap for dumping words into that search box. You should (and if you cannot, I'd love to hear more about it) be able to *Save* any number of terms at once, but in the searching/adding, it is limited so that it doesn't take too long to process.
I do not recall the actual number, but there is a hard cap for dumping words into that search box. You should (and if you cannot, I'd love to hear more about it) be able to *Save* any number of terms at once, but in the searching/adding, it is limited so that it doesn't take too long to process.
I was able to save all of the words I had added, but the problem lied in the adding of the cards. I’ll try it once more later and let you know if it works out.
