Importing cards

Plain text and Microsoft Office (Word and Excel)

Mnemosyne can import plain text files where each line contains a question/answer pair separated by a tab. So e.g. if you have such a list in Word, save it as plain text (*.txt), choose 'other encoding - Unicode (UTF-8)' if your data contains foreign characters, and then you get a file which you can import in Mnemosyne if you choose the 'Text with tab separated Q/A' format.

The same goes for Excel using 'save as', 'tab delimited (txt)'. However, Excel's unicode text format is not the standard UTF-8, so this only works for latin characters.

OpenOffice Calc

Choose File-> Save as and select csv as the format. Then click on the box that says edit filter options and choose utf-8 as the character set, tab as the field delimiter, and clear as the text delimiter. It works perfectly with unicode (a major advantage over Excel!).

SuperMemo 2006

To import text-only cards from SuperMemo 2006 (including Unicode/cards with foreign scripts), choose File-> Export-> Q&A Text from the SuperMemo menu. Make sure Allow HTML is checked and nothing else in the next box, then press OK. Import the file SuperMemo creates into Mnemosyne as a SuperMemo 7 text file, and choose a category if desired.

Unfortunately, Mnemosyne can only import question/answer cards, not incremental reading information or your repetition history.

SuperMemo for Palm

Mnemosyne can import Supermemo for Palm databases that have been converted to XML by the open source smconv.pl.

Additional file formats

Mnemosyne can also import Memaid's XML format (Mnemosyne's predecessor) and also Supermemo7's text format.

Importing three-sided cards

For each card, put 'written form', 'pronunciation', and 'translation' on a single line, separated by tabs.