stephenmk
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2 years ago This functionality already exists somewhat in Yomichan. Go into your Yomichan settings and enable "Advanced" options (the button is in the lower-right corner). Then scroll to the "Anki" section of the settings. Set the "Show card tags" option to "always" or "non-standard" depending on your preference. This will display the tags attached to existing notes when you look them up in Yomichan. Now you just need to add a "core5k" tag to all of your notes in Anki (this can be done all at once by selecting them all within the Anki browser).
You could also add "new" tags to the cards and remove the tags after you learn the cards, although that would be a bit tedious to do manually. Personally, when I had this problem, I would just keep my new cards in a separate deck outside of Yomichan's scope.
When you look up a word that's already in your deck with Yomichan, it shows a little book icon in the top right corner.
What I propose, is to show a little indicator next to it, if the card in question is NEW (not learned yet).
Why? I think this would be very useful for beginners - we often start off by importing core decks (most common 1,000 words and sometimes even more, I use a 5k deck myself) and it will take in some cases many months before we finish reviewing all the cards.
A lot of the time, I'll look up a word I don't know and notice the Anki indicator, but be unsure whether I have forgotten the word or simply haven't learned it yet. I have to browse the deck to find out. It seems like a tiny issue, but I think this change would lessen the confusion while looking up unknown words.