Adding selected text to flash card lists

[PhilipLean]

Is there a program that will enable me to highlight (select) text and right click and select "add to flash card list" ?

I would prefer something that works in Word documents and web pages.

I have seen several good programs provide pop up translations when text is selected but it seems to take many steps to get the original word and the translation into a document.

I have explored several flash card programs bu so far I have not found that function.

It would be really neat if such a thing had the option of doing a lookup at the time or later to produce a fully formed flashcard list.

[gato]

Chinese Perapera-kun, the Firefox plugin, can save the words you look into a textfile, which you can then feed into a flashcard program.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3349

Chinese Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator

Pleco also has a similar function.

http://www.pleco.com/screenshots.html

Pleco

[PhilipLean]

Thanks,

I have just downloaded Firefox 3.0 to use with Perapera-kun. It does not run my usual Firefox 3.5.

I have not tried Pleco on a PDA, I did look at the page you pointed to, I will find out more.

I think this is on the way to a solution.

Chinese Perapera-kun, the Firefox plugin, can save the words you look into a textfile, which you can then feed into a flashcard program.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3349

Chinese Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator

Pleco also has a similar function.

http://www.pleco.com/screenshots.html

Pleco

[gato]

You can install the "Nightly Tester Tools" Firefox plugin to overcome the incompatibility problem. Once the Tester Tools plugin in installed, right click on Perapera-kun to force the install.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543

Nightly Tester Tools

[PhilipLean]

Thanks

Once the Tester Tools plugin in installed, right click on Perapera-kun to force the install.

I did that and now it works, shows the meaning.

But, I have set the save file in the menu, so far no file is appearing.

[gato]

But, I have set the save file in the menu, so far no file is appearing.

Unfortunately, you have to manually enter the directory and file name where the lookups are saved.

Assuming that you are using Windows, you could try

C:Documents and Settings[YOUR USERNAME UNDER WINDOWS]DesktopVocabList.txt

Make sure the encoding type is set as UTF-8.

Then whenever you want to save a word and its definition while doing a lookup, just press the "s" key.

[PhilipLean]

Great, now it works, I had everything but the file name.

What is the best separator colon comma tab ?

[gato]

I use Tab because that's what Pleco recognizes. Commas is probably fine, too.

You can load a comma-separated value (CSV) file into Excel for further processing, for example. CSV and tab-separated files are also recognized by flashcard programs like jMemorize.

[PhilipLean]

Thanks for everything, this doing exactly what I wanted.

[gato]

You are welcome. Happy studying!