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Import and export

Import from Noji

Bring your Noji decks into Lymi with their sub-decks, pictures and learning progress. Cards you already know keep the due dates they had in Noji, so nothing you learned starts over. Noji itself is not changed.

Import in four steps

  1. Export from Noji

    In Noji, open the deck you want to bring, open its Settings and choose Export deck. Choose the OFC format, turn on the option to include your learning progress, and enter your email address. Its sub-decks come with it.

    Noji emails you a link to the .ofc file. Download it within 24 hours, after which Noji deletes it. Noji only exports decks you made yourself, not decks you added from someone else or copied. Its CSV export leaves out pictures and progress, so use OFC.

  2. Open the import in Lymi

    In Lymi, open Settings from the menu under your name, and under Import choose Noji. 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 and decks, how many you already know, and which words you already have. Check two things.

    • The language of each deck. Noji’s file does not say a language, so Lymi guesses from the deck name and its cards. Lymi needs the language to find duplicates and to say words out loud.
    • How a card will look. The front of a Noji card becomes the term and the back becomes the meaning. If they are the wrong way round, swap them.

  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 Noji: Verbs inside Spanish becomes Spanish / Verbs. A deck that only holds other decks is not made.
Cards
The front becomes the term and the back becomes the meaning. You can swap them before you import.
Cloze cards
Each gap becomes its own card: the hidden word is the term and the full sentence is the example.
Formatting
Bold text, lists and line breaks become plain text with line breaks.
Pictures
The first picture on a card becomes the card’s picture. Picture review waits until you describe it.
Learning progress
A card you have learned keeps its due date and comes in as Known. A card still in its first learning steps starts as new.
Frozen cards
They arrive archived.

What stays behind

  • Past reviews. Noji’s file says where each card stands today, not when you reviewed it, so Insights shows no history from Noji.
  • Image occlusion. Lymi cannot ask these cards. The preview counts them.
  • Audio. Lymi makes its own pronunciation for words in a language.
  • Extra pictures. A card has one picture in Lymi, so only the first comes across.
  • Styles and deck settings. Colours, fonts and Noji’s study settings stay in Noji.
  • Very long text. A meaning longer than a card holds moves to its notes. The preview counts every card with text that was cut or moved.

Your streak and today’s goal

An import adds no reviews, so it never counts toward today’s goal and never changes your streak, even if you reviewed in Noji 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 Noji, and fills a field on a card only if that field is empty in Lymi, so your edits stay. Progress you made in Noji after the first import does 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 card text. If a deck with many sub-decks is too large, export one sub-deck at a time.

Lymi can’t read the file

Export the deck again from Noji in OFC format and choose the .ofc file. A 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.

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