That said, if you intend to live in China or have Chinese heritage or you have some other reason to study Chinese --- that's great! But it's not a bad idea to consider where you're going with something before dumping thousands of hours into it. (In fact, I quit chess for the same reason...)
I was trying to edit the full hsk1-6 flashcard set to just show hsk5.
But I didn't manage to find the right tools.
Tried to manually change the file (it's a sqlite dB inside a zip file) but the db is not structured in a way I managed get my head round.
Should try again.
[0] https://github.com/Stvad/CrowdAnki
For more complex operations Anki doesn't support directly, I usually just export as text instead of dealing with the database directly.
> But I didn't manage to find the right tools.
This is by far the worst part of those decks (which I am also using). You are literally encouraged to just browse the cards and delete the levels that you're not using. It's really not user friendly.
One thing that prevented me from memorizing characters was the idea that it wasn't worth doing. However, this passage from the Self-Regulated Learning paper [0] that circulated around HN convinced me otherwise:
"We need to understand, too, that our capacity for storing to-be-learned information or procedures is essentially unlimited. In fact, storing information in human memory appears to create capacity — that is, opportunities for additional linkages and storage — rather than use it up."
2. Learning (even very basic) Chess has opened my eyes up to how interesting a "solved" game can be.
[0]: http://www.excaliburtsa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Se...