What is it for?

Watch in this video. Suppose you're learning a language, how do you remember new vocabulary? There're beliefs that the best approach is to read a sentence which has a new word in it.

For example, you want to remember a word car. You open an online dictionary and see these examples:

• I have a car of BMW brand.
• You drive your car too fast.
• What color is your car?

What would you do with these? I would save them to my vocabulary Google Sheet and read them on the next day. But copy-pasting each sentence isn't cool, especially on your smartphone =(

This browser extension allows you to have those sentences to look like this in your browser:

• I have a car of BMW brand. [Save]
• You drive your car too fast. [Save]
• What color is your car? [Save]

Where [Save] is a link. When you click it, the sentence is saved to your Google Sheet. Isn't that cool? =)

I like it! But what do I do with those sentences in a Google Sheet?

There's a nice Google Sheet add-on that will automate the learning process. Once you've saved the sentences, you'll periodically receive emails with them to recollect. More details how the Google Sheet add-on works, what it does and how often does it send emails can be found in the add-on description.

What online dictionaries are supported?

The full list can be found here, among them are:

• https://www.google.com/
• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
• https://www.spanishdict.com/

Since sentences detection is based on regular expressions, it would be quite fast to add support of other dictionaries.

How to get it?

For desktops

• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome

For Android

Google Chrome's extension is supported by the following browsers on Android (read this manual how to install it):

• Kiwi Browser
• Yandex Browser
• Might be supported by other Chromium-based browsers, but I've tested it only with Kiwi and Yandex.

For iPhone

Unfortunately, iPhone doesn't support browser extensions. But Vocabulary 90 add-on supports adding sentences through a Google Form (see screenshots here). Currently, it's the most convenient way of adding sentences for iPhones.

How to install

How to install the extension and how to setup a target Google Sheet for it, please read here.

How to build the source code

Requirements

1. Ubuntu or other Linux distribution.
2. jq v.1.5.1 (sudo apt install jq) - for merging manifest.json for different extension distributions.
3. zip - to create archive of extension
4. make

Building process

Run make

Built extensions will be in build/ directory.