Anki help with shared decks

[dhaubles]

Hello fellow forum members!

Let me first start by commending the owners here for providing such a wonderful resource for non-native mandarin (namely english) speakers! I have found this forum to be generally quite comprehensive and amongst the most up to date of the sites on offer today !

Now for the question,.. I have started using Anki today but cannot for the life of me figure out how to review only a section of a deck downloaded from the internet.

The deck in question is NPCR books1-5 obtained from here: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2651202916

All I want to do essentially is review only the vocabulary for the lessons i have completed thus far. So as I am at Lesson one I would like only to review the 11 words or so that i'm expected to memorise before going to lesson 2.

Any pointers?

On a side note what'd be really great would be if i could somehow combine handwriting recognition with the vocabulary of the NPCR books. This way I could get the computer to assess if I am writing accurately or not- Rosetta Stone style!!

[Ruben von Zwack]

If you do not have separate decks for every lesson, or at least, have every bit of vocabulary tagged with the corresponding lesson number, I'm afraid you will have to find a way to work around it.

Actually, are you sure your cards do not come with any lesson tag?

If they do, that's easy:

Create a new deck, name it either "lesson-1" (which is a bit ridiculous and will lead to 32 different decks in the end), or create a new deck "my-vocabulary" or something like that, and select all cards with the tag "lesson-1" and then send (re-place) them your new deck.

In the future, as you study along, do the same for all cards that have the tag for lesson 2, lesson 3, etc. So your deck will become bigger as you study along (and needless to say, your original downloaded deck will shrink, because you are subtracting cards from it by adding those to your own deck).

You can also select cards and create a temporary deck. But you can't save those, they are only good for one study session, and would have to repeat that step every single day, so temporary decks are a bit pointless in this context.

If the cards don't come with a tag (but I find that hard to imagine), you will have to find the vocabulary for each lesson by browsing "decks-browse all" and search each word and tag the card manually with something like "lesson-1", "lesson-2", etc.

It's a pain, but if you have like 10 cards every few days, it's manageable.

And I know some here are so versed, they know how to automatically do this in an Excel Sheet with the raw data, but that's like sorcery to me

[Guest realmayo]

You could select all the cards, press the suspend button. Then unsuspend the ones you want to learn.

[dhaubles]

Thanks for the suggestions fellas. I tried both methods and I think the latter might suit best. I went into the browser mode and pulled up the complete deck, luckily for me the cards were appropriately tagged according to lesson/book, then I ordered it by 'due' - which seems to correspond to the lesson order - and basically suspended all cards outside of the first 10 (for the first lesson). Just a final question does the due field mean the 'card number' or something else? The due numbers appeared to correspond exactly to the sequential progression of lessons (I cross-checked with the lesson tags) but I found it strange that for 3000 cards, the due numbers start at 3000 and end at 7000!

[Guest realmayo]

I think for new & unanswered cards the due field is simply a sequential ordering, so the card with the lowest "due number" will be the next new card you're shown.