Hi everyone, I just came across a plugin for anki:
http://batterseapower.github.com/pinyin-toolkit/
It looks like it has a quiet ambiteous goal - it wants to revolutionize your Chinese learning. Some features seem to be pretty cool (autocoloring pinyin etc.) however I have some trouble on getting it to work.
Has anyone tried it/managed to get it working?

HerrPetersen Wrote:Hi everyone, I just came across a plugin for anki:
http://batterseapower.github.com/pinyin-toolkit/
It looks like it has a quiet ambiteous goal - it wants to revolutionize your Chinese learning. Some features seem to be pretty cool (autocoloring pinyin etc.) however I have some trouble on getting it to work.
Has anyone tried it/managed to get it working?

I've been using this for a while now. Of course I've managed to get it working...just change the deck properties..."( 　ﾟ,_ゝﾟ)ﾊﾞｶｼﾞｬﾈｰﾉ"

So what is your take on it?

HerrPetersen Wrote:So what is your take on it?

It's alright but by no means perfect, I only use it for vocab drilling, right now I am doing sentences from smart fm, but when I finish those, I will make my own cards later by ripping audio and video from chinese tv, and then I will type out the sentence, I see it as it stands right now as useful for not having to look up most definitions when you plug words in, because itll do that stuff automatically, it needs more customization in my opinion to be really useful.

It's useful. That's what I used when I made the decks of characters learned in school in Taiwan. I tweaked the model a little bit because I didn't like all the colors and all that.