Introduction
I've been using MorphMan for years, but it was no longer maintained. I decided to update the add-on for compatibility, bundle it with my personal files, and add new features.
Credit goes to those who made MorphMan what it was before this version (https://github.com/kaegi/MorphMan and later https://github.com/ianki).
This guide explains how to use the new version, for long-time users and newcomers alike.
Why use MorphMan?
MorphMan reads the Japanese in your Anki cards and works out which words you know.
With that, you can:
- Find media at your level: anime, video games, movies, manga, visual novels…
- See which words you're missing to reach your goal
- Learn those words with your own cards, or with new cards made from real examples
- Reorder your new cards so the ones with only one unknown word come first
The next page is a quick start, to get going as fast as possible. The rest of the guide goes into detail, step by step.
Good to know
- It's free, and it will stay free. No account, no subscription.
- The Japanese dictionary (MecabUnidic, about 500 MB) is too big for AnkiWeb. MorphMan downloads it for you the first time you start it.
- It can work with other languages, but the focus is on Japanese.
About AI
I think it's becoming more and more important to say how AI was used to make a tool.
The core functions already existed, as I mention above. AI helped me code the new functions, a lot of them for the UI. It also helped me write this guide, because English is not my first language.
AI is not used at all for the Japanese in this add-on. MeCab, with the UniDic dictionary, cuts sentences into words. The meanings come from Jitendex, or your own Yomitan dictionaries.
I use MorphMan every day for my own studies, so everything is constantly being tested.
Questions
If something is unclear or doesn't work, come and ask on my Discord.
You can also open an issue on GitHub.