I have a suggested improvement for the "Mark Kanji as known" in the dictionary pop-up. I think the words are a little bit hard to understand at first glance.
1. How about making the text green when you know the kanji and have the text say "You know this kanji". With unknown kanji mark the text red with the text "You don't know this kanji".
2. I still think it would be an awesome idea to have one place where you could type down all the kanji you know (like the input box for furiganainjector for firefox), so that you could easily include and exclude kanji from your known list, instead of having to mark textbooks or each kanji you know separately. (Right now I made lessons with the kanji I know to get all the kanji I know collected in one place so I can mark them as known, but I think it would be much easier to just have a simple input box you can add and remove kanji in.) I don't know how much work this would take on the programming side, though.
There will probably be an easier way to access the 'kanji library' in the future to do some of the things you're suggesting (especially #2), it's just not at the top of my priority list. I think the kanji history in settings is great, but it doesn't (yet) extend out to custom made materials.
I'm trying to restrict green/red to the meaning of 'correct/incorrect' as much as I can, so I'd be hesitant to use it there. I've got no beef changing the text, though.
Here's the rub: I'm *trying* to keep it so it's in the format where the entire piece of text is a link - if that makes sense.
In other words, I'm trying to avoid something like:
I know this kanji: <link>
where <link> would say yes/no. (trying to keep the links uniform, and none of the others are like that). So...if the link says
"I know this kanji", there'd be some ambiguity as to if that means clicking the link would mean you do know it, or if clicking the link would mean that you don't know it, but are clicking it to say you do.
There's some unfortunate ambiguity there which I haven't been able to completely resolve.
Just to put my two cents in here, I use the 'mark kanji as known' link all the time, and I think the way it is right now is much better than the way it used to be. That's not to say that it couldn't be improved at all, but just that at the moment I find it totally clear what will happen when I click that link, so I can't think of any way to change it that won't make it more confusing in some way.
Yes, what you are saying makes total sense! Ignore my post. :) I guess my head is just a little slow at processing the "Mark kanji as known / unknown" - but if there will be a place in the future to see all the kanji you have marked as known - this whole problem will just go away for my sake :)
oh, I see what you're saying. Well, if you go into 'My Term Center' it'll give you a list of all the terms you've ever seen on the site, and you can look at just kanji in there. Admittedly it's not terribly efficient to look through them all when you have a million of them. But for instance I marked 鼠 randomly because I just like it, not because it's in any of my lists, and when I went in and looked at my kanji term center, even that came up.
Yeah - I see what you are saying as well. Thanks for the tip. I know about the term center, it is neat, I should use it more.
For me the problem is kind of the opposite direction. The school I am in - we learn about 10 new kanji each day, which is not directly related to the vocabulary we learn each day. That is why I want to input all the kanji from my kanji lessons somewhere in a list (without having to make a quiz, and then marking all the kanji in the quiz as known) - because I can not always remember if I have learned a kanji or not... It wasn't a problem before when I only knew about 100 - 200 kanji, but I am starting to loose control over what kanji I have actually studied (and what kanji I have just seen around and I sort of can read when they are in a word I know,) now that I am getting up to 400 - 500 kanji and above. Right now I have a list digitally on my computer, so it would be so swell to have that list here on renshuu as well.
But the kanji center is a minor thing - I am already super-impressed with renshuu.org - I am pretty sure it helped me get an extra 10 - 20 % on my exam last week!
