Adding examples to each note

[TerryGeng]

My personal learning habit is memorizing words with examples. I'd appreciate if example sentences could be added to the decks in this repo.

Currently, I have tried to add some examples to words of my interest manually and created a new field called examples, added a new div into the back template

<div class="expression">
  {{expression}}
</div>

and adjust the style

.examples {
  text-align: left;
  padding: 30px;
  font-size: 20px;
}

I understand that manually adding examples is not a feasible task. I have checked several public dictionary services, but sadly few of them provide APIs. Capturing the webpage seems to be the only way. But nonetheless, here are some possible options:

• https://jisho.org/, whose examples are grabbed from
• https://tatoeba.org/, which seems to be maintaining a corpus that is also accessible from
• https://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic, from which it is easier to search (regex is supported) and grab.

Of course, at the end of the day, some manual reviews are needed and, in some complicated cases, choices have to be made.

I'm just wondering if anyone is interested in this idea and are there any suggestions?

[jamsinclair]

Apologies for the late reply @TerryGeng.

Yes I had thought of this. Some of the decks I looked at sourcing pulled examples straight from jisho and tatoeba sources. The issue I saw was often the examples weren't great for learning and active recall.

some manual reviews are needed and, in some complicated cases, choices have to be made.

Yes that's inevitable. To have a great deck with examples would require a lot of curation and moderation. I would also see a benefit to having consistency among examples throughout the deck too. For those reasons, I didn't implement it.

I can automate fetching from those sites. If yourself or others would like to help curate the examples, I'd be happy to start on the feature.