MiGRATiNG FROM REViEWiNG THE KANJi TO ANKi

Migrating your stories from Reviewing the Kanji to Anki is a fairly simple process.

EXPORTING YOUR STORIES
STEP 1: Log in to Reviewing the Kanji
STEP 2: Select: Study>All my stories>Export to CSV
STEP 3a: Saving for MS Excel

• Open with Notepad
• File>Save As
• set the encoding to Unicode (UTF-8)
• save as “my_stories.txt” (not .csv)

STEP 3b: Saving for other spreadsheet programs (OpenOffice, Google)

• Save “my_stories.csv”

STEP 4: Importing into a spreadsheet program

• Import into your spreadsheet program
• Select Unicode (UTF-8)
• Select > (Delimited/Fields) > Separated by Comma > Import/Finish

FORMATTING YOUR EXPORTED STORIES FOR ANKI
If you are using Anki’s default Japanese Model then you have only 4 Fields to work with.

Field 1	Expression	Column 1	Keyword
Field 2	Meaning	Column 2	Kanji
Field 3	Reading	Column 3	Your Story
Field 4	Tag (Default)	Column 4	Kanji, RtK1, etc

Format the columns of your spreadsheet by following the example above.

If you want to include other fields (ie. chapter, reading)
see Configuring Anki for RtK

IMPORT YOUR STORIES INTO ANKI
STEP 1: Select & Copy the Rows & Columns that you want to export.

• Do NOT select extra Rows/Columns/Cells (ie. headers)

STEP 2: Open Notepad > Paste > Save As: Select Encoding: UTF-8
STEP 3: In Anki

• File > Import > Select File > Open > Select a Model > Import

Further Reading:
Guide to Learning Japanese
Spaced Repetition Software
Outgrowing Reviewing the Kanji
How to Review Kanji & Sentences in Anki
Learning Kanji
Remembering the Kanji Method
Sentence Method

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