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Import from Mochi

Bring your Mochi decks into Lymi with their cards, tags, pictures and review history. Your cards keep the due dates they had in Mochi, so nothing you already learned starts over. Mochi itself is not changed.

Import in four steps

  1. Export from Mochi

    In Mochi, open the deck you want to bring, open its … menu and choose Export deck. To bring every deck at once, open Settings and choose Export everything instead.

    Save the .mochi file where you can find it. Use this format: Mochi’s Markdown and CSV exports leave out review history and tags, and Lymi cannot import them.

  2. Open the import in Lymi

    In Lymi, open Settings from the menu under your name, and under Import choose Mochi. Choose the file, or drop it on the page. Keep Lymi open while the file uploads.

  3. Check what comes across

    Lymi reads the file and shows what it found: how many cards, decks, pictures and past reviews, and which words you already have. Check two things.

    • The language of each deck. Mochi does not store a language, so Lymi guesses from the deck name. Lymi needs the language to find duplicates and to say words out loud.
    • How a card will look. Lymi shows one card of each kind as it will arrive. If the word and its meaning are the wrong way round, change which field is which.

  4. Import

    Press Import. Lymi writes the cards on its server, so you can close the app. When it finishes, your decks are in Library and the import is listed in Activity.

What comes across

Decks
Every deck that holds cards becomes a Lymi deck named by its place in Mochi: Verbs inside Spanish becomes Spanish / Verbs. A deck that only holds other decks is not made.
Cards without a template
Mochi splits a card into sides at a --- line. The first side becomes the term and everything after it becomes the meaning. A card with no --- line comes across with a term only, and the preview counts those.
Cards with a template
Each field is matched by its name, and the field on the first side is usually the term. You can change what each field becomes before you import.
Reversed cards
A card with Review reverse turned on becomes one Lymi card asked both ways. Each way keeps its own history.
Readings
Furigana such as 漢字(かんじ) becomes the term 漢字 with the pronunciation かんじ.
Formatting
Markdown, such as bold text, headings and links, becomes plain text with line breaks.
Tags
Tags come across, up to 20 on a card.
Pictures
The first picture attached to a card becomes the card’s picture. Picture review waits until you describe it.
Review history
Every past review comes across on its original day and shows in Insights. Remembered counts as Good and Forgot as Again. Each card keeps the due date it had in Mochi.
Archived cards
They arrive archived. Cards and decks in Mochi’s trash are not imported.

What stays behind

  • Audio. Lymi makes its own pronunciation for words in a language. The preview counts the sounds that are left out.
  • What Mochi generated. Speech, image search results and AI text that Mochi made for template fields are not part of your cards in Lymi. Lymi can enrich a card itself.
  • Extra pictures. A card has one picture in Lymi, so only the first comes across.
  • Templates, styles and deck settings. Cloze gaps come across as plain text, and links to other cards keep only their text.
  • Very long text. A meaning longer than 1,000 characters moves to the card’s notes. The preview counts every card with text that was cut or moved.

Your streak and today’s goal

Reviews you did in Mochi count as history, not as reviews done in Lymi. They light up the days you studied in Insights, but they never count toward today’s goal and never change your streak, even if you reviewed in Mochi this morning.

Words you already have

If a word is already in Lymi in the same language, the import skips it and keeps your card. The preview lists the words it will skip and the decks they are in.

Importing the same file again

Import the same deck again and Lymi recognises the cards it already brought across. It adds no copies. It adds cards that are new in Mochi, and fills a field on a card only if that field is empty in Lymi, so your edits stay. Reviews you did in Mochi after the first import do not come across, so review each deck in one app.

Undo an import

Open Activity, choose the import and press Archive import. Every card the import added is archived, and so is every deck it made that has no other cards. Restore brings back exactly those. Nothing is deleted.

If something goes wrong

The file is too large

Lymi imports files up to 1 GB, with up to 20 MB of cards and review history. If Export everything is too large, export one deck at a time.

Lymi can’t read the file

Export again from Mochi and choose the .mochi file. A Markdown or CSV export cannot be imported.

The upload stopped

Try again on a steadier connection and keep Lymi open until the upload finishes. After that you can close it.