Stackz 2.0 by MindDate Software =============================== 1. Purpose ---------- Stackz is a shareware flashcard organizer for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. It has many special features to learn Japanese vocabulary, but it also helps to learn any other language or any other type of information as well. 2. Concept ---------- The Stackz visualization concept makes it easy to keep the overview over the items to be learnt, even if there are several thousands of them. To achieve this goal, the words are classified according to two fundamental attributes: 1) Known/unknown: known words are on the right, unknown ones on the left. 2) Fresh/old: The color of the card indicates the time without a positive test. The learning state of an item is directly visible, and the resulting action to be taken is immediate - unknown cards must be learnt, cards whose color turned into old must be refreshed. 3. Japanese features -------------------- The Japanese IME is used to enter kanji on all supported versions of western windows. An advanced interface to both Jim Breen's EDICT and KANJIDIC files allows to browse kanji information and kanji compounds. 4. Wordlists ------------ A growing archive of available wordlists (currently over hundred lists!) is online at www.stackz.com. Words can automatically be extracted from Japanese text (typically webpages) and added to a wordlist. The integrated dictionary simplifies the creation of customized wordlists. MindDate Software info@stackz.com