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Anki can import csv files. That said, making decks is extremely tedious. It’s better than a premade deck for learning language vocabulary, but it’s time consum

Anki can import csv files. That said, making decks is extremely tedious. It’s better than a premade deck for learning language vocabulary, but it’s time consuming. You shouldn’t make vocabulary cards programmatically. If you’re going to invest time into learning a card, you need to be absolutely sure that it’s correct. Otherwise you’ve wasted your own time. When I was using Anki daily, I’d reserve about 20 mins or so in the evening to input new words.

liendolucas 4y ago
I heard this many times before... If there's an easy way to create the cards I'm willing to put some effort on it. Italian and spanish are not that far away languages so most of the time I really know the meaning of the words (with of course the help of translation and a dictionary sometimes) I learn but I need to remember them.
- rtpg 4y ago
  Well if you have a source of vocab you can do it. Honestly CSV import is the way to go. That leaves you with how to get cards in. That depends largely on how you are working with stuff. Some bespoke options include: - The Kindle dictionary lookup history is an SQLite file on the kindle. Scrape that and pull it out - Write a CLI command to lookup words in some dictionary website and stick that somewhere - Just have a text file open somewhere where you paste words, and then you do the lookup later. I think there's a lot of ways to make things easier, especially if you're working with another language with an open source dictionary. You need to do some one-time elbow grease to get it in, cuz what people want is different. Another thing you can do if you like just going wild: just download somebody else's card deck. You can set things up to show you (for example) 10 or 5 or even 2 new cards a day. You will end up being shown a bunch of new words. You can just absorb those over time and see how that helps.

liendolucas 4y ago

I heard this many times before... If there's an easy way to create the cards I'm willing to put some effort on it. Italian and spanish are not that far away languages so most of the time I really know the meaning of the words (with of course the help of translation and a dictionary sometimes) I learn but I need to remember them.

rtpg 4y ago
Well if you have a source of vocab you can do it. Honestly CSV import is the way to go. That leaves you with how to get cards in. That depends largely on how you are working with stuff. Some bespoke options include: - The Kindle dictionary lookup history is an SQLite file on the kindle. Scrape that and pull it out - Write a CLI command to lookup words in some dictionary website and stick that somewhere - Just have a text file open somewhere where you paste words, and then you do the lookup later. I think there's a lot of ways to make things easier, especially if you're working with another language with an open source dictionary. You need to do some one-time elbow grease to get it in, cuz what people want is different. Another thing you can do if you like just going wild: just download somebody else's card deck. You can set things up to show you (for example) 10 or 5 or even 2 new cards a day. You will end up being shown a bunch of new words. You can just absorb those over time and see how that helps.