So here's an idea by hypothetical example: You're browsing this forum, and someone is giving advice, and mentions a Japanese word or phrase. This string is a link or otherwise contains metadata of some sort--it acts as a vessel for Anki information. You 'activate' the word by clicking it in some way and it adds a card to your Anki deck w/ audio/expression/reading/meaning/whatever. Kind of like an ed2k link? Mixed with a plugin of some sort? Any ideas on how in the future this might be accomplished? Perhaps a site like bombperson has for storing the information in a common format/location?

Anyway, I realize it's a sloppy idea, but.

Sounds like an awesome idea. You could click on the link (or just select and right click) and it would automatically search on a site like smart.fm or anki-resource and import matching sentences into an anki deck. I would imagine you'd have to write a firefox addon to do it.

That'd be a big timesaver. I like it.

This would be such an awesome idea. Like bombpersons said probably would be in the form of a firefox addon. I know it would save me a lot of time. Right now I just quickly type up unknown compounds/words in a little notepad labeled 漢字単語 which I put into anki on a later date (when I'm not feeling lazy).

Just use rikaichan. It has a feature which will dump the currently shown word to a file with its definition, and you can import that into Anki later.

resolve Wrote:Just use rikaichan. It has a feature which will dump the currently shown word to a file with its definition, and you can import that into Anki later.

That's not much different from what I already do, selecting words and looking them up, then adding to a text list. I'm looking for something where you instead of copy/pasting/rikaichan-ing or whatever, you click and add a card to Anki (if Anki's open, if not it opens Anki then adds the card). Something like that. ;p

Sounds like a great timesaver, if anyone gets around to making such a plugin.

Perhaps instead of a link per you could just select some text and have the plugin look it up. So you can use it on other sources which do not have the 'metadata'.

zodiac Wrote:Perhaps instead of a link per you could just select some text and have the plugin look it up. So you can use it on other sources which do not have the 'metadata'.

Ya, I'm sure it would be easier at the moment to try and think about the process and possible sites and current software we have in selecting and formatting information and making them into cards, then streamlining/automating it as much as possible with scripts and integrated programs and whatnot.

One thing I conceptualize is, if there's a plugin, it'd act both ways: Imagine there's a kind of dictionary like what's at csse/breen with the definitions and pronunciations, but the definitions contain information like the kanji/searched for word has a tag that it's the 'expression', the bracketed kana is marked as 'reading', the definition is 'meaning', and the newly implemented 'audio' is, well, 'audio'. The plugin, when you type a word and select 'export' or something, looks up this information and formats it into some kind of anki:// link data, that when someone else clicks on with the 'import' aspect of the plugin, creates and adds an Anki card with that format. Edit: Of course, one wouldn't require the other, but they could speed things up.

And obviously if it was a different/customizable Anki-friendly dictionary at bombperson's site, you could have your own card formats and media information, etc.