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Creating Your Own Deck of Cards

This video shows how to create your own decks and cards in kanji Flow:

To create a new lesson, first, tap Lesson List on the Lessons tab in the upper left.

Near the top of the screen, select Create a New Lesson, enter a name, and then select Okay.

To create new cards, select the Edit tab and then select Add a New Card.

Enter information for the card in each field, and be sure to select Save when you’re done.

If you’d like to copy a card from the imiwa? Japanese dictionary, open imiwa?, find the entry you’d like to copy, tap the action button at the top, and then select Copy for the first entry.

For any subsequent entries you’d like to copy, be sure to select Copy & Add.

Back in kanji Flow, select Import Cards and cards will be automatically created for each entry you copied.

If you’d like to create a lot of cards at once, you can also copy a list, such as your History list, and then select Import Cards in kanji Flow to create your cards quickly and easily.

Happy Studies!

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Version 2.2.6 Released

  • Fixed document name behavior to make sure lessons with names that have special characters aren’t accidentally overwritten

This was covered in a previous post.

  • Fixed card study due date synching behavior on iPad

There may have been some strange behavior when syncing study dates on iPad but it should be inline with the iPhone version now.

  • Added an option to smooth card study dates from the Sync Study Dates button on the Lessons view

You can still turn smoothing on in the Settings app as well but you’ll now have the options to do a one-off smooth from the sync button should the need arise.

  • Added card number limits to Options so that you can set it individually for each lesson

This setting will remain in the Settings app as well, to be used as the default setting for new lessons but you’ll need to set this for your lessons that already exist.

  • Various fixes to ensure iOS 9 compatibility

I think there may have been some problems with font sizes but it should be fixed now.  If you feel that your font sizes are too small you can reset your font cache from the Settings app.  Just turn on the option at the very bottom and you’ll get a message that the cache was reset next time you launch the app.

Please let me know if you have any questions or notice anything strange with the app.

Happy studies!

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Version 2.2.3 Released

  • Single kanji words in reading mode will not display examples automatically

This was causing jukugo to appear which I and some other users found annoying so I turned it off. You’ll have to add your own examples if you want to see them for single kanji words in lessons set to reading mode.

  • Added an option to complete a study session early and mark the lesson as study completed for the day

You could basically do this before as well but now you’ll actually get to see the little green circle on the Lessons List screen. The circles and triangles should appear more consistently now too.

  • Added an option to export the examples database for each card from the Edit view

Just in case you’d like to use them to make new cards in other lessons. Be careful though, if you try to export too many cards at once you’ll definitely cause the app to crash due to device memory constraints.

  • The status bar will now properly use white text

I guess a change in iOS 8 caused the status bar to start showing up in black. It should turn white after launching now.

That’s it for now. As always, your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Happy studies!

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Version 2.1.3 Released

Version 2.1.3 is now available.

  • Updated example conjugation options. You can now use tildes (~), spaces, and new lines to separate possible conjugation forms and you can add an optional particle in parentheses. This will help in conjugating examples for grammatical phrases that are similar, for example: 〜た上(で) for verbs and の上(の) for nouns.

You can also conjugate examples that might have random phrases within the grammatical form such as 大して〜ない.

  • Added lesson markers to indicate if a study session has been completed today (green circle) or is in progress (yellow triangle) for each document on the Lesson List.

  • Added a complete Japanese character set; the app will now properly determine if imported text is Japanese even if it starts with a number or punctuation.

This means that you’ll now need to be more careful when importing; if you select “imiwa? Entries” when you actually have an imiwa? List on the clipboard, it will recognize the Japanese entries and import but you’ll also get some unwanted labeling.

  • Added the ability to search Apple’s Dictionary from the Study view popup menu and action sheet.

The first time you try this you’ll likely get “No definition found.” You’ll need to tap “Manage” and then download the Japanese dictionaries.

The next time you try it you’ll actually get some results. The two different dictionaries actually offer a fairly good amount of information for most entries:


IMPORTANT – This currently seems to be bugged and you might have to turn on the Japanese dictionaries every time you want to use the feature after relaunching the app. You won’t have to actually re-download the dictionaries; just tap to turn them on again. Setting your device’s language to Japanese might fix this problem. If this bothers you, you can submit feedback to Apple about it. The more people complain, the more likely it is to be fixed.

  • Added the ability to do a Google image search (explicit filter enabled) from the Study view action sheet.

  • Fixed sorting cards by creation date for study sessions.
  • Tweaked card sorting by difficulty.
  • Tweaked study date normalizing.

I think these are self-explanatory enough and not really so apparent to the average user but they should make things a bit better for those that use these features.

  • Added a slight margin to the Example view text views.
  • Added a check to prevent accidentally deleting translation examples if you hit done or back before inputting a Japanese entry.

If you accidentally leave the Example view before entering a Japanese entry the English entry will just get copied and still be saved.

The next update will coincide with iOS 8 and might include a new basic UI. I’m not really sure how much I’ll have time to do but I’ll have a better idea once I’m able to get into the new APIs and see how much work it will take. I’ll keep you posted on how things are going. Until next time…

Happy studies!