We all have those two-3 Kanji that look really similar, or those 2 vocab that have one Kana difference between the two but with totally different meanings, that we struggle with. I tried to make an Anki deck with these but I couldn’t figure out how to do it. If I have a deck that just has these words in them the deck either has to be 2-4 cards long and one card may pop up while the other doesn’t, or I end up with a deck 40 cards big where the card pairings won’t pop up one after another reinforcing my chance to remember the differences between them.
So I want to know is there any other tools or apps that I can make where I can pick 2-3 words/Kanji and it’ll pin those against each other so I’m forced to see the differences between them every time?
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I do this with Item Inspector, The procedure is as follows:. It requires some configuration to get Item Inspector ready for this use. This is done only once. It will be already ready for future uses.
First you need to enable the searches optional filters.
- In the settings, under the settings tab. select the Searches optional filter. Save your settings
- Refresh your browser to complete the install of the optional filters.
Then you need to configure a temporary filter
- in the settings, under the temporary filter tab
- Click on the new button to create a new temporary filter
- Type in the filter name in the Edit Filter Set Name input box… I use Exact Search
- Enable the Ask Before Filtering checkbox. This will force the temporary filter to display a dialog when invoked.
- Enable the Item Type check box.
- Enable the Exact Search check box.
The configuration is done. You can use the newly created filter to display items side by side.
- In the table selection dropdown, select the All Learned kanji table. This specifies the scope of the search to the kanji or vocab you have learned.
- In the temporary filter dropdown select the Exact Search filter (or whatever filter name you have chosen). This will invoke a dialog box requiring the fileter parameters.
- The item type multi box lets you specifies whether you want to display radicals, kanji or vocabulary.
- The Exact Search input box lets you chose the items you want to display. Type in the two items separated by a comma.
- Click Save to enact your search.
