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GitHub Repo for WordRefAnkiNoteCreate: https://github.com/jglotzer/WordRefAnkiNoteCreate As a committed user of both Anki  as well as wordreference.com  I've always wanted to have an easy way to create new Anki Cards. Creating Anki Cards (or more accurately, Anki Notes, as a Note consists of two sides while a Card is only one side.) can be a laborious, manual process, depending on how complicated or aesthetic you want the card to be. Most of the information one might want can be found at  wordreference.com , it's just not organized and/or formatted in a way that makes sense for the way I happen to use Anki. This is because, quite commonly, words have multiple meanings and I want each meaning to be listed once on each side of the created Note. Also, having appealing fonts and colors is a plus. Anything you can do to make the information "stick" in your brain is going to be helpful with this sort of memorization. Here's an example of what the  wordreference.com  s...

Long story short - have a windoze PC for Zwift (gaming) and the WiFi got progressively worse - went from intermittently working to never working. Sometimes the windoze dialogs would show the wifi adapter as disabled, other times not disabled but the network center would say "no internet" access.  Really no reason at all to suspect the wifi signal (all other devices in house work) or really the PC hardware.  Solution is to disable the  Wake on LAN feature in the wireless adapter but especially Wake on Magic Packet Wake on Pattern   (Can look here to see what these settings look like).  When I clicked disable on the last two I could see the internet spring to life in real time.  Interestingly, many, many years ago I wrote a blog post on Wake on LAN (this was for wired not wireless) that was also a problem. My take is if you see "Wake on ..." when it comes to Networking - be afraid, be very afraid. It's maybe useful in some specific use cases but for "normal...