I have this Anki deck of 1478 notes that I use to practice reading, speaking, and listening. https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3355859590 With one reading, one listening and one speaking card for each note, the deck turns into 1478*3 = 4434 actual flash cards.
The cards are all in hirigana and katakana and it makes it very hard to read when its more than ten kana. I want to convert all 1478 cards into kanji where appropriate.
For example, I would like this:
せんしゅう とうきょうで じしんが ありました
turned into this:
先週東京で地震がありました
ideally with furigana too, inserted like this with Anki square brackets:
先[せん]週[しゅう]東京[とうきょう]で地震[じしん]がありました
I think Anki automatically generates the furigana like I did in sentence 3 above, but only if you type each note in the actual Anki deck editor, manually.
If I cannot convert the kana, I should probably disable all my "reading" flash cards because it's pointless to read all kana. Arguably I would read kana faster, but it's very difficult and my energy would be better spent specializing in listening and speaking.
My first thought was to select all the "kana" entries in the Anki SQlite database directly and use some kanaToKanji() function. I could not find this function. I found one online but it didn't work with my test case above.
My second thought was to use the built-in Mac OS X Japanese input which converts kana to kanji and write a keyboard script that iterates through the actual Anki deck editor and types each sentence keystroke by keystroke. That way Anki would automatically insert furigana at the same time.
Is this the best approach?
