(name subject to change)

A little command line tool to help you learn your kanji. It works like flip cards - there's no actual user input like drawing a sign. It's probably far from being finished and has a few deficits in its current design but it works. It was created in a rush to prevent me from drowning in physical flip cards and since it does exactly what I need (for now), further improvements are unlikely (for now).

Currently there's only a text-based user interface. Additional interfaces are supported, just subclass ui/ui.py (see ui/urwid.py for reference).

Kanji are read from a database (see Setup) and filtered depending on your configuration and arguments. Whatever survived your filters is sequentially printed in a text area in random order.

Only previously configured fields are visible, a subsequent (configurable) keypress reveals the whole dataset. You can change the priority of the currently displayed kanji.

Once properly set up the result might look like this (screenshot with all fields revealed):

There's no installation procedure (currently). Create an alias or whatever suits your needs, e.g.:

alias kanjitest='python3 <path to kanjitest folder>/main.py'

You have to supply the script a sqlite3 database. The data of each kanji is stored in a single dictionary, associated with a textbook, an id (referring to the textbook), a priority and altogether saved as one row. There are rudimental scripts for the table structure, creating and inserting values in helpers.

• Going back the sequence of already prompted kanji (I'm not willing to remember them)
• Drop a kanji out of the current set if its properties got changed and no longer qualify for your selection, e.g. decreased priority (would be possible; it's more a choice of design - yes/no?)
• There are no UI related config files (I'm indecisive about who should manage them where. UIs are not part of the 'core' and intented to be interchangeable elements)

• Python >3.3 (3.0 < x < 3.3 is untested)
• Urwid
• A terminal emulator with proper uft8 support as well as a decent font and anti-aliasing