it's been a while (3 years omg) since my last entry, so I hope you have had a great time during the break :P.
Anyways, let's go on with the topic of this entry. Since I am studying a bit of Japanese in my free time, I stumbled upon an Android app called Obenkyo in my search for that "magic app that will teach me magically everything I need to know".
Well, the app is quite good. But, since I am a former Anki user, I thought about a way to import my custom deck into Obenkyo, because I am using the Japanese Level Up RTK Mod Anki Deck (based in Remember the Kanji, awesome book by the way).
And to my pleasant surprise, there's a method, which worked nicely for me.
How it works?
- Anki.
- Obenkyo.
- A File Manager of your preference in your Android. I use ES File Explorer File Manager.
- A Spreadsheet Processor. For example, Microsoft Excel or Libre Office Calc.
- A Text Editor. Notepad is fine.
Directions:
1. First, what you have to do is to export your current deck from Anki as plain text (excluding the tags). See the figure (ignore the Spanish :P).
2. Open the file in the Text Editor, and copy its content into the Spreadsheet Processor.
3. Then, copy the entire column that is filled with the kanji alone. A quick way to do it is to select the first cell of the column, and press Ctrl+Shift+Down and then Ctrl+C.
4. In a new sheet, paste the content but by using the Paste Special... (or Ctrl+Alt+V). Mark the option "Transpose" before pasting. The result that we are looking for can be seen in the following figure:
5. Without losing the selection, copy and paste once again this new content, but now into the Text Editor.
6. Now, you will have something like:
一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 ......
Notice the spaces? Let's remove them, by replacing the triple spaces by nothing at all. The result that we are aiming for is something like:
一二三四五六七八九 ......
7. We're almost done. According to the Obenkyo Team, you need to save all the kanjis without spaces into a new text file. Let's use the name "Anki_K.txt" (the suffix _K is a must). Then move the file from your computer to the folder Obenkyo_data in your Android device.
8. Finally, use the Import feature in Obenkyo to load your deck. If your file doesn't appear, check its location or its name. Remember the suffix! The process is illustrated below.
That's all. Now you have selected only those kanjis from your deck into Obenkyo. BTW, you can download my own RTK_K.txt from here.
Greetings or さようなら!
Note: Bear in mind that your deck is only pre-selecting the kanjis that are going to be tested from the Obenkyo's database. Right now, it just only does that.
Software used: Android 4.4.4, Anki 2.0.22, Obenkyo 3.3.2.2.



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