When I started using Skritter I practiced writing characters that I already knew the meaning of. By now I'm slowly working my way through the HSK 1-List and I noticed how difficult it is for me to remember the connecting between character, pinyin and meaning if I only practice it by drawing the characters.

As far as I have heard, some form of pinyin-practice is planned for Skritter but until that is finished it would be great to be able to export the HSK-List (in the same order as it is added here) or your own vocabulary in some form so I could use a simple flashcard software like ZDT to practice it the other way around.

Any way to export the characters faster than copying them one at a time would be fine by me.

The Skritter folks have mentioned that an export capability is on the to-do list, but I haven't seen any indication of an expected timeline.

For now, you can do a little bit better than copying characters one at a time. Try using the Vocabulary Viewer page at http://www.skritter.com/vocabulary/viewer . This shows you all the characters and words in your vocabulary list.

You can copy and paste from this page into a spreadsheet or any other external program. The two drawbacks to this approach are:

1. It only shows the characters and pinyin, not the definitions, and

2. It only shows 20 items at a time on one page, so if you want to get your whole list, you need to go through a bunch of pages one by one.

Presumably the export functionality will deal with these issues, but for the time being, the viewer page works pretty well.

Yeah, we've got oodles to do so right now exporting data isn't on our soon to do list. However, pinyin and definition practice are on our soon to do list so hopefully it won't take too much longer to get that up and running; gotta check with Nick when he returns when he plans to start working on that.

Until then I think jpo's suggestion is the best we have at the moment. You can sort by least well known so that you fetch the ones you're currently working on the most.

However, exporting data is something that will take a relatively short amount of time to build (compared to, say, the custom list builder. Working on it!) so I might be able to squeeze it in sooner.

There is a trick. Go to "Vocabulary::Viewer"
You can now see all your words, in groups of 20.
You can highlight (select) these, copy them ( Ctrl_C)
and paste them into a unicode ready document ( eg Word ). Even in groups of 20, it only takes a few minutes to do a few hundred words ( if you have a thousand or more , you deserve to suffer ) .
After pasting them into Word , I exported them to Excel, saving the Word file in plain text - unicode format, and imporing to Excel as space-delimited.
By the way, by clicking the rightmost column label ( in Skritter now ) they will be sorted by the difficulty you are having with them.

Thanks for the update Scott. I have to say, that is the one change/tweak I am most waiting for. I keep hoping I won't have to maintain multiple sets of character lists for different programs anymore...

Great site though!

First off, I wanna say congrats to the Skritter peeps. I was kinda skeptical the "Skritter method" would work for me, but last week I gave it a try again and really like it! :)

With that said, I'm glad to see someone has already brought up ZDT and a feature to do pinyin practice.

Back when I was taking formal Chinese classes, I used ZDT every day for my pinyin/pronunciation, got really addicted to it, and somehow stopped because their later version seemed more buggish that the previous ones. ZDT development looks like to have come to a stop as well.
All in all though, ZDT has served me pretty well though, and I am really looking forward to seeing some of its features as part of Skritter.

Rock on!