A great friend of mine Arne Brasseur sent me an email with a great tip on how to make my Classical Chinese flashcards in my favorite spaced repetition application, Anki more useful. Since the "models" of flashcards in Anki can contain HTML, Arne showed me how to create an "examples" link to every classical Chinese vocabulary card I have which links to a list of hits returned by searching the fantastic Chinese Text Project which contains many Chinese classics. He does this by adding the following code into one of the fields of the flashcard's model: <a style='font-size:10px; text-decoration: none; float:center' href='http://chinese.dsturgeon.net/text.pl?searchu=%(text:Hanzi)s'>examples</a> Note that "Hanzi" is the name of the field in my flashcards that contains the Chinese character for my classical Chinese flashcard. I modified this slightly and added something similar to a separate Anki deck that I review for regular Chinese characters (the 3500 most frequently used), this time linking to a list of example sentences found at the online Chinese dictionary site nciku: <a style='font-size:10px; text-decoration: none; float:center' href='http://www.nciku.com/search/all/examples/%(text:Hanzi)s'>examples</a> |