Hello, all.

I carry my phone around all the time, and whenever I run into any word I don't know, I flag it in Kotoba!, and then later I email my word list to myself and input the words into my SRS.

My problem is that I only put Japanese into my SRS, so I have to put each word in the Kotoba! list into weblio or goo or whatever to the Japanese definition. This kind of sucks for high volume.

I have the 大辞泉 app on my iPhone, which I love, but you can't export its bookmarked words in any way.

So, in short, does anyone know of any Japanese-only dictionary apps that will allow me to email a saved list of words and definitions?

Thanks

I did a casual look for the same thing a while ago and didn't come up with anything. All it takes is one update though, so hopefully I missed something or there is one now.

If you end up stuck with Kotoba! for the sake of e-mail abilities, you might want to consider switching to Midori, though it's a pretty small hop and it's possible there are better pay options. It gives an option to CSV or Plain text the e-mail like Kotoba! but as a dictionary there are a few detail features that make it a little better, with almost no downside. It has the ability to write kanji w/o the chinese keyboard (ie built into the software), although it is sometimes quirky and stroke sensitive it lists 8 options and has an undo last stroke button. I still occasionally revert to Kotoba! for the multi-radical search. The other feature I've found to be of use is that every 漢字 has a list of compounds sorted by (newspaper?) frequency, so 今 has 今年 listed first, 昨今 listed last. Each list is usually 20 entries or so. When I come across a 漢字 that is new to me I often want to learn a couple of compounds for it instead of just one. This shows apprx how (as per newspaper frequency) uncommon the original word I looked up is and if I pick a word from near the top of the list as a second word to learn I can feel assured I'm not learning something obscure. It also marks which of the compounds are in your bookmarks. Anyways, these are the main features that I appreciate over Kotoba, aside from the fact that it crashes far less for me (though I haven't yet gotten the most recent iPhone update).　Worth noting all the words you've bookmarked in Kotoba will obviously not be marked in Midori, so that's annoying...

Don't want to jack the thread, if someone would like to hear more about midori please link to a more appropriate thread and I'll respond there. This was meant as a, "if you don't find j-j with e-mail abilities, consider moving past Kotoba!". 頑張って！

Gotcha. Thanks for the tip. I suppose we'll just keep on waiting...

大辞林 will let you quickly post the word and definition to twitter (it automatically snips long definitions to fit). It also has history, so you can go back and do words later if you look up a whole bunch. I find that it works quite well for me.

CJ

On a similar note is there any way to get manually loaded PDFs to be parse-able by the ipod/phone? I've used the web browser and clicking/highlighting words has the J-J dictionary pop-up option, which is very nice. But all the PDFs, even if they are text-selectable, seem to not work in terms of having lookup-able content. Any pointers, anyone?

K.

kodorakun Wrote:On a similar note is there any way to get manually loaded PDFs to be parse-able by the ipod/phone? I've used the web browser and clicking/highlighting words has the J-J dictionary pop-up option, which is very nice. But all the PDFs, even if they are text-selectable, seem to not work in terms of having lookup-able content. Any pointers, anyone?

K.

Do you use iAnnotate for reading/organizing PDFs?
I've never had a problem with it.

@chamcham -- iAnnotate is for the iPad only, isn't it? I was just looking at it -- looks sweeeeeeeeet... but I have an iPod touch.

EDIT: I browsed around, it seems many users are pissed off about the non-support for word selection, highlighting, etc via iBooks. It will be nice once this gets included because with the sweet-ass integrated J-J dictionary and the abundance of ebooks available in text/PDF form this will be a very nice, portable, feature-full e-reader (along with anki mobile, audio, video, ... ipod is my study swiss army knife.)

cjon256 Wrote:大辞林 will let you quickly post the word and definition to twitter (it automatically snips long definitions to fit). It also has history, so you can go back and do words later if you look up a whole bunch. I find that it works quite well for me.

CJ

Ah, cool. That gets me a lot closer to what I want. Thanks.

[Katsuo]

kodorakun Wrote:On a similar note is there any way to get manually loaded PDFs to be parse-able by the ipod/phone? I've used the web browser and clicking/highlighting words has the J-J dictionary pop-up option, which is very nice. But all the PDFs, even if they are text-selectable, seem to not work in terms of having lookup-able content. Any pointers, anyone?

When pdfs are opened in GoodReader for iPhone, then text can be selected and looked up in the built-in dictionaries (iOS5).