As far as I can tell, Mnemosyne's three sided cards are really just a shortcut for making two cards (although I could be wrong): Card 1: front: kanji back: definition, pronounciation
Card 2: front: definition back: kanji, pronunciation So you could use Excel (or whatever) to make your list of three sided cards into a (twice as long) list of cards like this. If A is kanji, B is pronunciation, and C is meaning, then use [D1=A1] and [E1=C1 & ", " & B1]. Autofill down to the bottom of your list, then make D21 (if you have 21 cards, for instance) =C1 and [E21=A1 & ", " & B1], then autofill another 21 (or whatever). I'm not sure how to put a line break into a file for importing (instead of the comma). <br> perhaps, or (the excel formula) Char(10) (which is just a regular line break). On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 19:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all! I'm new to the program and to the group. > > This seems like it ought to be really easy, but I've run several > keyword searches on this group to no avail. On checking out Mnemosyne, > I really like what I've read about the algorithm and would like to > apply it to some of my flashcard collections that have way too many > items to repeat efficiently in a short time frame. However, I'd like > to be able to import the data I already have rather than recreating > it. > > I'm studying Japanese, and I like having multi-sided cards so that I > can separate kanji/pronunciation/English into progressive stages. I > understand that Mnemosyne can do this with three-sided cards. However, > I can't figure out for the life of me how to *import* three sided > cards. > > Most of my data is currently in Stackz, which provides for four data > fields. The fourth field is usually not crucial, so I could export the > data to Excel and get rid of the fourth field if necessary. But so > far, when I try to import my Stackz export files (tab-delimited) into > Mnemosyne, the second and third fields are automatically sent to the > "answer" field (the fourth field seems to be ignored). Creating a new > Mnemosyne file and trying to set it up as a three-field file before > importing doesn't seem to make any difference (though I may be doing > it wrong). Am I missing something obvious? Or is this something that > Mnemosyne just can't handle yet? > > Thanks for any help and advice you all can provide! > > Sara > > > -- Caleb Eggensperger http://calebegg.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
