Improving my vocab. Tips and tricks?

WaniKani Tips & Tricks
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No problem! There’s definitely a learning curve with anki! And admittedly, I’ve only really learned enough to process my own workflow (which isn’t very customized).

First off, I can only speculate on the AnkiDroid aspect. Can you move the cards from the “Takoboto” deck to the one that you want, after it’s created?
If that’s possible, the easiest solution might be to import them to AnkiDroid directly and then just move all the cards out of the deck it creates.

As for my own process, here’s the steps:

  1. Read, and look up words when I need or want to, adding cards to a list related to that source, and a “to export to anki” list if I see I’ve looked it up multiple times (it’s already in a list) or I just like the word.
  2. In Takoboto, go to the list of word lists, then the options menu (three dots next to the plus) → “export to file”
    This generates the full csv.
  3. Connect phone to computer and choose to browse like a file directory
  4. get the csv from there and move it to my computer somewhere.
    It looks like for me it shows up in the “Download” folder
  5. open the csv in spreadsheet software, modify it how I want and save a copy:
    remove all data from lists I don’t want to import.
    Add “(NO KANJI)” etc. to items I want to label for myself when they come up in reviews.
    Make the “word” and “translation” columns the first two columns.
    (it might pop up a window when opening/saving the csv about how you want to open it. I think I had to specifically specify UTF-8 as the character set when doing so)
  6. From desktop Anki, File->import and select the to get the screen I showed before, make sure the deck and fields line up with what’s desired, click import.
  7. Study the deck, and when new cards show up, move the kana/kanji readings I don’t want on the front of the card to the back of the card with the English.
  8. In Takoboto, go to the “to export to Anki” list and click “move all to” to move everything to an “already exported to Anki” list, so I’m aware when I look those up + to cut down on potential duplicates.

Sorry if it sounds less convenient with the steps explained!
But I think it beats typing up thousands of cards, at least, and you just have to figure it out the first time.

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