Some of you may find this useful:
edit pad
I use it to make vocabulary cards of new words I encounter throughout the day. Just type up all the words in a list, turn on rikaichan, mouse-over each word and press 's' to save the meanings to a file. Then inport to anki or some other SRS. In this way, I can add over 100 recognition vocab cards in less than half an hour.

nadiatims Wrote:Some of you may find this useful:
edit pad
I use it to make vocabulary cards of new words I encounter throughout the day. Just type up all the words in a list, turn on rikaichan, mouse-over each word and press 's' to save the meanings to a file. Then inport to anki or some other SRS. In this way, I can add over 100 recognition vocab cards in less than half an hour.

Why write them on editpad to start with, why not just use rikaichan immediately where you find them?

Though I guess it saves time for the words found outside of the computer. However, I personally feel the whole "looking up in the dictionary yourself" time reinforces the words and I feel just using rikaichan to get it immediately might make you less intimate with the words. And if you want sentences, which most people do, you will need to look those up anyway.

tobberoth Wrote:Though I guess it saves time for the words found outside of the computer. However, I personally feel the whole "looking up in the dictionary yourself" time reinforces the words and I feel just using rikaichan to get it immediately might make you less intimate with the words. And if you want sentences, which most people do, you will need to look those up anyway.

Indeed I use this for words I find from books/manga/newspapers or when using the computers at work (which don't have firefox installed). I think having to write the words on paper and then seeing them again when I make vocab cards after getting home helps reinforce them. I don't bother with sentences anymore.

What kind of file do you save to?
I have some issues with word processors and word pad type programs, so can you tell me which programs can be used to make said file?

I checked it, and it also can be used for counting words and characters when you don't have other tool at hand for those purposes.

Thanks for the link.

@yukamina

I save to a .txt file (UTF-8). If I open it in TextEdit (OSX), the japanese appears garbled, but it's fine when imported into anki. Anki can only import UTF-8.
Let me know if you have any problems.

Thanks. I got it to work with wordpad in Vista. It's messed up in wordpad, but like you said, it works in anki. In my previous attempts I gave up before trying to import it to anki, because the text was garbled.