Importing cards

What a file needs to look like for Wordhoard to turn it into a deck.

In the app, open Decks, tap Import and choose a file on your phone. Every card in the file goes into one new deck, which you can rename, merge into another deck, or add words to afterwards.

Just a list of words?

Don't import it: paste it. Tap the + button to open Add words and paste the list, one word per line. Each word is looked up: you see the meaning its card will teach and can pick another, and every card gets a definition and, where the dictionary has one, an example sentence. An imported word list becomes cards with neither.

A spreadsheet (CSV)

Save the sheet as CSV from Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers (in Google Sheets: File, Download, Comma-separated values). The first row names the columns. Only word is required. The others are optional and can come in any order.

Column	What goes in it
`word`	The word or phrase to learn. Required.
`definition`	What it means.
`sentence`	An example sentence that uses the word. Wordhoard blanks the word out for you, or you can mark the blank yourself as `{{c1::word}}`.
`synonyms`	Separated by semicolons or commas.
`part of speech`	noun, verb, adjective and so on. `pos` works as the column name too.
`ipa`	The pronunciation, for example `/kiːn/`.

An example file:

word,definition,sentence,synonyms,part of speech
keen,Eager or enthusiastic,She was keen to start the course.,eager; enthusiastic,adjective
harbour,To keep a thought or feeling in your mind,He still harbours doubts about the plan.,hold; nurse,verb
give up,To stop trying,"Please, don't give up now.",quit; abandon,phrasal verb

Download this example as a file and open it in your spreadsheet app to see the layout.

Commas, semicolons and tabs all work as separators.
If a cell contains the separator, like a sentence with a comma in it, wrap the cell in double quotes, as in the last line above.
Without a first row of column names, the columns are read as word, then definition, then synonyms.

An Anki deck

Wordhoard reads cloze notes exported from Anki:

In Anki on your computer, choose File, Export.
Pick the deck and choose Notes in Plain Text (.txt).
Move the file to your phone, then import it in Wordhoard.

Each note's first field needs a cloze, such as She was {{c1::keen}} to start. The blanked word becomes the card's word. If the back of the note starts with the word and its pronunciation between slashes, both are used. Basic front and back notes, without a cloze, are skipped.

What gets skipped

Lines with no word.
Words longer than 60 characters.
Anki notes without a cloze.

Before anything is added, the import tells you how many cards it found and how many lines it skipped.

Still stuck?

Email dylann201909@gmail.com with a few lines of the file and what you expected to happen.