u/Blzn

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Would you use an Anki desktop widget?

Just thought about a widget or menu bar item that tells you some interesting info about your Anki deck. Like how many days in a row you've studied, a card of the day, or some other interesting data. Would you use it if such a thing existed? What would you want to see?

edit: For transparency, I'm asking because I'm considering creating a free Anki extension that could this.

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u/Blzn — 1 day ago

I made a free mac app that gives you a Zhongwen-style hover dictionary everywhere, fully offline

I love the Zhongwen dictionary extension for Chrome and wanted it across every app on my computer (iMessage, PDFs, embedded subtitles, Anki, etc). I was searching for something like this and was surprised that not many options exist. So I built this app which shows hover popups and quick translations for any Chinese text on your screen.

The app gives you three ways to look up Chinese in any app:

  • Highlight text in any app (⌘⇧Y) for a tone-colored pinyin + definition popup
  • Drag-select a region (⌘⇧O) to OCR and translate, great for embedded subtitles or screenshots
  • Hover mode (⌘⇧I) point it at a window or region and hover over words for live definitions

Everything runs locally. OCR uses Apple's Vision framework, translation uses Apple's on-device Translation framework, the dictionary is the open-source CC-CEDICT. No accounts, no servers, no analytics — it doesn't even make network calls of its own. Works completely offline.

Download / more info: hanzikey.com

edit: This post is not requesting for anything to be translated

u/Blzn — 5 days ago