Hello, I have found what I think is a little, yet relatively nice help in adding sentences, and I thought thought some of you might find it useful, (if not, then writing about your own, better way of adding sentences would be nice). When digging words from Japanese texts, I always thought it would be nice if one could read through the whole text, highlight all the unknown words/sentences (possibly translating then with Rikaichan in the process), have them automatically transfered to some easilly accesibly database, and then, having finished the reading, copy them to Anki. That way, one could parse the text as a whole and concentrate on the reading itself, instead of having to switch to anki everytime one encountred a new word.
For a long time, I couldn't find anything for the purpose, but yesterday, when repairing my Windows Gadgets, I found something even better : Yahoo widgets !...which are exatly the same as gadgets, but have different design.
Among the many useful tools (http://widgets.yahoo.com/search/?q=jenerator is good for some non-violent immersion) is one called ClipDrop (http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/clipdrop) that stores a selected number of sentences put in clipboard, displays them in a queue and then enables one to fetch each sentence by simply clicking on it. This basically makes it possible to easily make a list of sentences for Anki, while not interrupting the actual reading.
The method I now use to grab the sentences is as follows:
1) Find some Japanese text
2) When seeing an unknown word, look for its meaning and reading with Rikaichan (that way, I won't have to look later, when adding the sentence to Anki)
3) Highlight it, which copies it to clipboard (using Autocopy, a firefox plugin), which copies it to ClipDrop
4) Keep on reading and repeat the steps 2-4 until you have finished
5) Open Anki, transfer the senteces by clicking on them in ClipDrop, and edit them however you see fit
Following this method is saving me some precious time and energy and I think it may be useful for you guys as well (the Yahoo widgets only work on Windows and Mac, but those with Linux certainly use better tools anyways). If however, you know of something faster or easier then by all means says so, I'd be happy to learn about it.
P.S. What happened to the thread about stinking foreigners? Reading it kept me from going to bed.
For a long time, I couldn't find anything for the purpose, but yesterday, when repairing my Windows Gadgets, I found something even better : Yahoo widgets !...which are exatly the same as gadgets, but have different design.
Among the many useful tools (http://widgets.yahoo.com/search/?q=jenerator is good for some non-violent immersion) is one called ClipDrop (http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/clipdrop) that stores a selected number of sentences put in clipboard, displays them in a queue and then enables one to fetch each sentence by simply clicking on it. This basically makes it possible to easily make a list of sentences for Anki, while not interrupting the actual reading.
The method I now use to grab the sentences is as follows:
1) Find some Japanese text
2) When seeing an unknown word, look for its meaning and reading with Rikaichan (that way, I won't have to look later, when adding the sentence to Anki)
3) Highlight it, which copies it to clipboard (using Autocopy, a firefox plugin), which copies it to ClipDrop
4) Keep on reading and repeat the steps 2-4 until you have finished
5) Open Anki, transfer the senteces by clicking on them in ClipDrop, and edit them however you see fit
Following this method is saving me some precious time and energy and I think it may be useful for you guys as well (the Yahoo widgets only work on Windows and Mac, but those with Linux certainly use better tools anyways). If however, you know of something faster or easier then by all means says so, I'd be happy to learn about it.
P.S. What happened to the thread about stinking foreigners? Reading it kept me from going to bed.
