Hi !
I would like to say I enjoy the app very much learning japanese and thai, and find it so simple and powerful.
This new version is full of good ideas! And on another aspect, as J_M3 mentionned earlier, I also worry a little as I developped a color coding on my own as well. I use it for a while now and find it quite powerful, so I am afraid this will be much harder to use it efficiently, as I can definitly not see clearly the tag color with only the thin underlining.
Therefore, if it is possible, may I suggest to make a much thicker underlining. Anyway, people not using it can discard it in the options if they don’t use, so no noise for them.
Another possibility which came up to my mind and get rid of the underlining thing, would be to be able to switch between the new “green/orange” mode and the old mode, let’s call it “customized mode” :
- the “new mode” for users willing to have an all-in-one “automatic” experience with the embedded flashcards, etc.
- the “customized mode” for users that like to keep the control and use colors to their liking and learning specificities.
BTW, maybe it is what you meant with the option “Show tags in text”, or does this option only show tags as underline?
I don’t know if it will be of any help, just in case, I am sharing my color system principle, which basically has a convergent philosophy with the new version, but with slightly more “nuances” in colors which I find very useful in my personal use. Maybe some ideas can be picked up here for future update…
- GREEN: trivial words (for examples words like “I, you, it, what”, “be, have, get” , Names, …)
- RED: Well-known words, that I want to understand perfectly but also that I want to be able to use naturally without any hesitation or mistake (i.e., “Active phase” words)
- YELLOW: Recently learned words, which I have to work on (ultimately, I want them to become RED one day). The yellow is very vivid, and these words are easy to spot.
- BLUE: Words which are not so common, that I may not need to use myself but that I need at least to understand, for example, words from the news, technical words, very bad words, very formal words, etc… (i.e “Passive phase” words).
Also note that this Coloring principle is coupled with my ANKI deck philosophy:
- RED, YELLOW words are revised with either “theme / version” sentences Notes, or very detailed Vocab Notes (with as much as possible audio extracts from my inputs).
- BLUE words are in a separate deck, with just simple note extracted from dictionnary without any audio and quite “relaxed” deck parameters (for example the note maximum interval is only 600 days for the BLUE words, as it is 200 days for the notes with RED & YELLOW words).
This way,
- Remaining WHITE words (which I can spot easily!): they are words I need to investigate (it is a new word to me, or if not, something “fell through the net” and I may need to color it / add it in my ANKI decks…),.
- Remaining PURPLE words: I don’t need to investigate on it as being above my level (unless for some reasons it is of special interest to me).
Here printscreens showing you how it looks:
Also, when some new word or unclear idiom needs further investigation in one sentence, I click on the Star so as to make the investigation later, after I finish the episode. So, the ”saved sentences” Tab is only used as an “Inbox” which I need to clear.
The other interest of this colour coding is when using the tab “Words” (cf. printscreen) for one movie or episode:
- I can assess at once its degree of difficulty, seeing each percentage
- I can work easily on the new words (i.e. WHITE words), for example say: “on this episode, I want to check and investigate on all level 3 & level 4 words which are still in WHITE”.
- I can make a dedicated seance of revision (especially of the YELLOW and BLUE words in my case) based on the episode.
BTW does this “Words” tab will remains more or less as it is now with the new update?
Thanks and Best Regards.