Apologies!!
While Kanpeki already works to a great extent, it still needs a little some work before we can put it online. However, here are the plans so far for the software and the website. We are working as fast as we can, so please be patient while we finish up. If you have suggestions or requests for functionality, or just want to send words of encouragement, please feel free to contact us.
Future plans for Kanpeki software
We hope to be able to put the kanji look-up tool on this website by the end of May, 2007. This tool uses the kanjidic and Edict dictionary databases created by Jim Breen as well as information about components as described by James Heisig in his Remembering the Kanji series as well as stoke information, information about kanji breakdowns and sound component data that I have compiled myself.
This tool intended to help students quickly look up kanji and kanji compounds that they come across in their studies.
Next, we will post tools specifically designed to enable Japanese language teachers to incorporate component analysis teaching methods into their current curriculums. These tools will also help individuals studying on their own who want to study kanji using component analysis but don’t want to be tied to a particular order for studying kanji.
Third we will create a flexible learning and review module that won’t tie students to learning kanji in a fixed order. This will also allow students to use component analysis methods to study kanji in conjunction with their own overall curriculums for studying Japanese.
There are no specific plans for functionality and additional modules after these, but it is hoped that ideas that arise in the forums here can generate new ideas for helpful software for studying kanji.