(2016-06-09, 10:36 pm)Mars Prism Makeup Wrote: If I want to play vns that are on the ps1 and ps2 is it possible to use things like visual novel reader? Or is that strictly for PC titles?
Exclusively PC. Most of the more popular VNs from the PS2 are available on the PC as well.
For console titles though, your best bet is to use an OCR or look them up by radicals on jisho.org
Unless you know a lot about the console, so as to hook the text threads... If so, please publish your tool. (this is sarcasm, by the way)
RE: mass import from Rikaisama to Anki
I just save everything to a tab delineated txt file (specified in Rikaisama's settings) and import them into Anki every once in a while. I mostly read on my phone, so there is no 'straight to Anki' importing.
Of course, I don't have sound on my cards.
This import feature is very intuitive (have your deck and fields ready; import the txt file; match the fields of the txt file to the fields of the deck, if necessary), and the only effort you have to put into your deck is the formatting.
Anki cards use very basic HTML and CSS (well, so long as you're not doing anything terribly fancy), and for most things, you really only need to know / be able to copy-paste a couple different lines of code (span-style, font, etc). I agree that a color slider similar to those available in even the most basic of image editors would be really useful for those of us who don't have a million different hex values memorized (though I honestly found it kind of fun to search for the best color text to go on the easy-on-the-eyes background I have), but I'd personally prefer any GUI tools to be optional (hide or show), they'd take up a lot of room.
I do think they'd be helpful for many, though.
Just thought I'd add a bit of a counter-point to 'formatting cards is too difficult!', since everything you need to know is either in the documentation or available in any number of books or websites in the form of basic web design (HTML and CSS).
Certainly doesn't mean that there's no need for tools, though; the fact that 'better' isn't attached to 'tools' is telling.