+1 for great idea.

Would you also be able to make an adding and timing system for my declaritive learning system too?

That would be awesome!

I'm looking at using the program called "Autohotkey".  This would allow me to record a series of keyboard and mouse inputs to perform a repetitive task.

I'm playing around with it right now.  What I'm trying to do; if you highlight text it will then do the rest of the work for you:  Copy the text and then open the anki "add card" dialogue.  It will then paste the copied text into the new card and then close the window so you can continue reading.  This is a really basic starting point, but it's very flexible so you can get it to do a lot more.


I think that the big benefit of the program is that it's easy to use, so anyone can make a custom macro to do there own specific task.

I'll post an example soon so you can get an idea of what it does.  Then you can start working on customizing it for your own needs.

Yeah, I'm a little unclear about what the benefits of this over, say yomichan or wrightrak's rikaichan mod (granted there is an extra step involved in this one...but a minimal one)

The way I make my cards, I'm not sure you'd be able to do something automated...I generally have a word on one side, and a sentence with it and/or definition on the back.

Ok, here is an example of what the program can do.  This is just the starting point; you can make it do as much as you want it to do for automating repetitive tasks.

1.  Download this small program:  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=764KXF98
2.  Open the program (it will run in the taskbar)
3.  Open only the following programs:

Web browser (or some reading material source), Anki, and an Anki "Add Items" card.

4.  Select the text you want entered into Anki
5.  Hit ctrl+alt+a

Last edited by foodcubes (2011 May 11, 7:04 am)

I've been looking for something like this for over 3 weeks and absolutely no luck. Now I find about this thread and the link is dead :'( ! Fkoda !!! 

Foodcubes, guys, any one who downloaded the program, would you PLEASE :'( upload it somewhere ? Or email me a copy at (psycho.bignose@hotmail.com), I'll upload it myself afterwards 'cause I'm sure other people would want it !

*cross fingers*

Last edited by psychopatate (2013 January 31, 3:32 pm)

There's also EPWING to Anki. If you have some EPWING dictionaries floating around, it will take a vocab list you feed it (among other parameters) and generate a mess of sentences for you. Or whatever it can parse from the EPWING file. It's here somewhere on the board.

EPWING to Anki only works with specified Japanese-English and Japanese-Japanese dictionaries, as far as I know. So it would only be useful for learning Japanese.

I see many people are interested !
Honestly, such a program is a real jewel. Not that it's so difficult to manually add vocab and sentences, but if it's possible, why not let the computer do it ? It DOES save a lot of time ! The more you read, the more useful it will be !
It sucks to be ignorant in computers I'd love to able to create useful programs the way I like ! (And I WILL, someday !) then share them

Foodcubes, I'm praying you'll come back :')

Last edited by psychopatate (2013 February 01, 7:48 am)

ryuudou wrote:

Does Yomichan not accomplish what you want?

Good question -- not as far as I know? Never got my head around Yomichan, but I suppose it's only for Japanese/English.