A little background about me. I've been studying Japanese for about 6 months, and after all this time I thought it might be a good idea to start watching some anime with the intent to mine new vocab, expressions, etc.
I already had Yomichan set up, but didn't have an Anki card type so I set up one that I enjoyed, similar to the one Kaishi uses, but simpler for me. Also set up ASBPlayer.
Even though I have this set up, I still make sure that I don't mine repeat words. So usually I try to check Kaishi if I already have that word (I know if I mined everything to the same deck, this process would be way quicker), then correct the audio track, and sentence and reading and sentence translation…
As you can see 1 mined word takes me a few minutes out of the immersion. So I thought to give Migaku a try. I watched a few videos and they said it could work with Anki. Supposedly I don't really need to use Migaku Memory or whatever they call their SRS.
So I gave Migaku a try.
First thing that was a surprise, even though they say they have a free trial of 10 days. You can't create cards to Anki…
So I payed 10$ for 1 month to try it. So I have a 1 month trial now.
I don't want to use their specific SRS because I've learnt that you can't export your created cards there to .csv and export to Anki, nor keep the story of reviews. I don't want to be pay walled to use the cards I created, so Anki all the way… But then…
To export to Anki, they almost force you to use their way or no way. I tried mapping their fields to my simple note type, and most come in strange formats, and I quickly gave up and decided to use their format. I said OK, I'll live with their note type I guess…
When creating or exporting cards to Anki, there's no "sync" with Migaku… Like why? So I either use Migaku or use Migaku. And let's say I started mining to a deck that previously had notes that didn't follow migakus note type, now everytime I try to upload that deck I've to say that "My word" is "Target Word", "My sentence" is "Sentence" (they don't have My in the field name, surprisingly my field names had the same names that Migaku uses, but I still have to map it every time).
I mean are other Anki + Migaku users doing all this for their "sync"?
The feature that Migaku brings to the table that I found super useful is that it knows what you know (and it displays) but for all this work, I might as well just use ASBPlayer.
And to finish, why can't Migaku work on generic video websites, I was riding the high seas (if you know you know) and ASBPlayer just worked, I could upload an SRT and have JP subs on the spot. But Migaku can't, why?
Am I misusing Migaku?
Am I misunderstanding the purpose and use case of Migaku?
I'll be trying to use Migaku during this "month trial" and I'm waiting for some help/suggestions from other users, if I don't find it worth it I might as well not use it.
Edit and PS: I'm not trying to talk badly about Migaku as a tool. I'm mostly astonished because I've seen so many users and YouTubers talk wonders about the tool, and I seem either to not understand it or it doesn't do I want it to do.
by IgnitionZer0