jamesrwaugh / kyoro

Kyoro automatically imports Japanese sentence cards for Anki from a given kanji or word

Kyoro

Kyoro is a configurable AnkiConnect-based command line tool that helps builds Japanese sentence cards in Anki quickly, by taking a term on your clipboard (not yet), or by the CLI, and generating a set of sentence cards the term appears in.

Features

• Multiple sentence or vocabulary card generation
• Minimizes time spent fetching sentences, vocab, readings, audio, and clicking Anki menus when immersing
• Automatically includes audio for each card imported
• Native where possible, text-to-speech otherwise.
• Sentence cards are a candidate for large-scale i+1 optimization with other Anki tools such as MorphMan

Usage

TBD

Use Cases

1. While reading Japanese in digital medium, such as a VN, I want to highlight a word, press a hotkey, and SRS the word for later.
2. After coming across a new word, I want to spend minimal time doing manual labor to get Anki cards created for the word.
3. I have a large corpus of text and I want to SRS it, but the setup time is infeasible.

Kyoro vs. Yomichan

Yomichan is a popular tool that also supports importing Anki cards for Japanese words, phrases, and kanji.

So, are the two projects different? First, Yomichan is not a tool built for Anki import--it's a pop-up dictionary which also supports Anki import.

Advantages of Kyoro

1. Multiple sentence card import: Import N different cards using a piece of vocabulary
2. Vocabulary card import: Import a single card with N different sentences on it (Yomichan can only include one)
3. Works on text outside of the browser
4. Automatable: Being CLI, it can be used to convert bulk sets of Japanese into sentence cards.
5. Includes audio for the entire sentence, not just a single word.
6. Optionally allows user verification of sentences before importing, i.e, to not import vocabulary above the user's level.

Advantages of Yomichan

1. Ability to customize data in imported card fields
2. Customizable dictionaries