What is the URL Shuffler?

It’s a better alternative to bookmarks. Instead of storing those cool L2 sites you come across (e.g. via recommendations on the AJATT Twitter feed) in your bookmarks folder, where they will simply be forgotten, store them in the URL shuffler

The URL shuffler will pick a random page for you each time you click the “shuffle!”/”shuff!” link. Make the “shuffle!” link your homepage and you can flip through the web like flipping through TV channels. Shuffling gives a perfect balance of turnover (mixing) and conversion (actual visitation).

Note: like SRS cards, the websites are all added by you. This way you get a customized mix of just the websites you love.

Why include it in an SRS?

Because contact is the basis of content. There’ll be no fun SRS content without fun immersion. Instead of disciplining yourself to build the habit of visiting L2 websites, let URL shuffler handle it for you. Plus, you’re not bound to your main computer. Whether at home, school, wage slavery place, a friend’s house or on your iPad, you can enjoy the same rich variety of cool L2 web content.

How Do I Use It?

Use the supplied links and bookmarklets to add, remove and visit websites.

It’s just the summer of bookmarklets this year, isn’t it? This time around, it’s a little something to help you with your immersion:

Google Japan Bookmarklet
Source code:

javascript:(function(){var w=window,d=w.document,s="";;if(d.selection){s=d.selection.createRange().text}else if (d.getSelection){s=d.getSelection()}else if(w.getSelection){s=window.getSelection()}window.open ("http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&source=hp&q="+encodeURIComponent(s) +"&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=","_blank")})()


Google Hong Kong Bookmarklet
Source code

javascript:(function(){var w=window,d=w.document,s="";;if(d.selection){s=d.selection.createRange().text}else if (d.getSelection){s=d.getSelection()}else if(w.getSelection){s=window.getSelection()}window.open ("http://www.google.com.hk/search?q="+encodeURIComponent(s) +"&hl=zh-TW&prmd=i&source=lnt&tbs=lr:lang_1zh-TW&lr=lang_zh-TW&sa=X&ei=IRRQTIuHOMHXcZyklbEB&ved=0CAgQpwU","_blank")})()

Google Reader Bookmarklet (Courtesy of Google Mania)
Source code:

javascript:(function(){for(i=0;i<document.getElementsByTagName('link').length;i++){if(document.getElementsByTagName('link').item(i).getAttribute('rel').toLowerCase()=='alternate' && (document.getElementsByTagName('link').item(i).getAttribute('type').toLowerCase()=='application/rss+xml' || document.getElementsByTagName('link').item(i).getAttribute('type').toLowerCase()=='text/xml')) { var furl; var fhref=document.getElementsByTagName('link').item(i).getAttribute('href'); if(fhref.indexOf('/')===0) { furl='http://fusion.google.com/add?1&feedurl=' + document.location.href.split('/')[0] + '/' + document.location.href.split('/')[1] + '/' + document.location.href.split('/')[2] + fhref; } else if(fhref.indexOf('http://')===0) {furl='http://fusion.google.com/add?2&feedurl='+fhref; } else { var fhref2=document.location.href.split('/'); fhref2.pop(); furl='http://fusion.google.com/add?3&feedurl='+fhref2.join('/')+'/'+fhref; } document.location.href=furl;} }})();

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Here’s a little Wiktionary bookmarklet love. This will be especially useful for all you Lazy Kanji people out there.

• Wiktionary Bookmarklet

Source code:

javascript:(function(){var w=window,d=w.document,s="";;if(d.selection){s=d.selection.createRange().text}else if(d.getSelection){s=d.getSelection()}else if(w.getSelection){s=window.getSelection()}window.open("http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/"+encodeURIComponent(s),"_blank")})()


• Japanese Wiktionary Bookmarklet

Source code:

javascript:(function(){var w=window,d=w.document,s="";;if(d.selection){s=d.selection.createRange().text}else if(d.getSelection){s=d.getSelection()}else if(w.getSelection){s=window.getSelection()}window.open("http://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/"+encodeURIComponent(s),"_blank")})()


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Thanks to their new, no-frills formatting [you can copy and paste definitions without having to delete stray linebreaks], Goo have regained their status as my favorite J-J dictionary. In honor of this great event, I present to you a little bookmarklet to speed up your dictionary lookups:

• Goo dictionary bookmarklet Version A

Source code, just in case:

javascript:(function(){var w=window,d=w.document,s="";;if(d.selection){s=d.selection.createRange().text}else if(d.getSelection){s=d.getSelection()}else if(w.getSelection){s=window.getSelection()}window.open("http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/srch/all/"+encodeURIComponent(s)+"/m0u/","_blank")})()

• Goo dictionary bookmarklet Version B

javascript:var%20d=document;var%20tx=encodeURIComponent(d.selection?d.selection.createRange().text:d.getSelection());var%20subw=window.open('http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/srch/all/'+tx+'/m0u/','_blank').document;

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Friends, AJATTeers, countrymen. Lend me your ears. I come to give a bookmarklet, not an update. It’s a little bookmarklet that will make life a little easier for you when it comes to adding/mining stuff from webpages. It puts the text you highlight directly onto the “front” of your card, and pertinent information on the “back”. Enjoy.

Here it is: The Surusu Add Card Bookmarklet aka SRS+ aka ス＋. Drag this to your toolbar and enjoy faster adding. Use the time saved to watch more cartoons .

Oh, and here’s the actual code in case you’re on a weirdish platform like the iPad and you need to copy and paste directly:


javascript:var%20d=document;var%20tx=encodeURIComponent(d.selection?d.selection.createRange().text:d.getSelection());var%20url=encodeURIComponent(d.location.href);var%20title=encodeURIComponent(d.title);var%20subw=window.open('http://surusu.com/addqaui.php?front='+tx+'&back='+title+'&source='+url).document;


Finally, big ups to this Japanese site for its help. And this English one, and finally to this forum for debugging assistance.

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Men of AJATT, on to glory! See Surusu famed in story! Waves these burning words before ye: “Britain scorns to yield!”.

Hmmm…and on that note.

Surusu now supports import of decks from Anki. Current limitations:

• Only Anki “cards“ (not “facts”) exported in the form of tab-separated text file, are supported.
• As you might expect, repetition history is not imported. However, Surusu does have facilities such as the warp button, whereby you can set very long intervals in a single click, allowing you to basically say: “I know this card very well, don’t show it to me for a long while”. This keeps well-memorized cards out of your hair so that you can spend more of your time on the cards you know less well.

In other news:

• Surusu now also supports rudimentary “undo” of repetition scores. If you accidentally give the card the wrong score, simply click on the link to its data page (shown at the top of the current page together with interval information), and “reset” it.
• Surusu decks can now be deleted and merged as well as renamed. However, delete and merge are irreversible, one-time operations, so use them with care. At present, there is no deck trashcan, i.e. no undo for deck mergers and deletions.