Import an Anki deck

If your vocabulary lives in Anki, you can bring it across as an .apkg file.

Exporting from Anki

In Anki, choose the deck, then Export, and save it as an Anki Deck Package (.apkg). Keep scheduling information in the export if you want your review progress to come with you - Yalango will map each note's interval onto its own review schedule.

Review progress

If your .apkg includes scheduling, Yalango can seed each new word's level and next review date from Anki. Suspended or buried cards arrive as paused, so they stay out of the review queue the way you left them in Anki.

Progress only carries when a note maps to both a target and a source field - vocabulary items are where the schedule lives. Words you already study on Yalango keep their existing progress; only brand-new vocabulary items are seeded.

Importing

1. Open the deck you want to import into on Yalango.
2. Choose Import, then Anki.
3. Upload the .apkg file.

The file is read in your browser, so a large collection takes a moment to process.

Mapping fields

Anki notes often have many fields, and this is where Anki imports usually go wrong elsewhere. Yalango shows you each note type in the file and lets you decide what each field becomes:

• The target side of the card - the language you're learning.
• The source side - the meaning.
• A custom field, so extras like example sentences, gender or usage notes come across too. Yalango can create the custom field for you.
• Ignore, for fields you don't want.

If your export contains several note types, the first is ready to import and the others stay switched off until you enable them. This is deliberate - a collection with "Basic" and "Cloze" note types usually only has one you actually want.

Yalango suggests a mapping to start from, but check it. Anki field names are often generic, and the suggestion can't know which of "Front" and "Back" holds your target language.

Two limits

• Media is not imported. Audio and image references in your notes are stripped. On Premium, Yalango can generate its own audio for imported cards.
• Very large files are truncated. Files with more than 100,000 notes are read up to that point, and you'll be told if that happened.

After importing

Cards behave like any you typed in, and enter your vocabulary right away. If you kept scheduling in the export and mapped both a target and a source, new words also keep their Anki level and next review date. Imports count toward your card limit - on the free plan you'll be warned before an import would take you over.

For notes that had no schedule in Anki, or that you chose not to carry over, it's worth using the vocabulary bulk actions afterwards to mark the words you already know as Learnt, so your reviews start out useful.