> One of the projects for the GSoC is to write an import wizard for txt formats, > so that you can choose which column maps onto which field. It will not be in > 2.0, though, which will probably only support import from 1.x mem files.
Hm, that makes it all whole less usable. Especially with such a multifield setup. Will have to see how this wizard is going, or to wrap something myself. As the whole card template idea seems to be quite attractive. > If I may ask, why do you find directly entering cards in Mnemosyne not > convenient? Many people seem to enter their info first in a text file, but to > me > that seems like long detour, so I'm curious to find out why people do this. for me entering directly definitely takes longer. adding each card via UI takes a few seconds to settle alone (after I select the "initial level"), so it seems an obvious option to pre-process as a text file and then import. then it's probably also different modes of working. I usually get text file that I'm learning open, I read the text, use the popup dictionary to look up words, so I do not want to be slowed down at this point by constantly switching to and taking time to add them to mnemosyne - I just gather all I get, to move to the mnemosyne later. That way I'm sure I enter each word once, I can clean up dictionary entries if they are too long, irrelevant etc. And I get a vocabulary list at the bottom of each lesson. Once they get in mnemosyne it's hard to find or edit anything; in any case long entries. Other case/reason - I've also been using a program that generates wordlist form the text. Then again I need to recheck it manually, remove too obvious words, add those that automatic process has missed, but the whole preparation still happens before mnemosyne. I use UI only to enter a few words that I've missed in this batch mode. Possibly if you use the paper book and type the glossary entries from it, it could go directly to mnemosyne as well. But still slowing down at the end of each entry, makes you think twice, if you'd rather not prepare tab separated text file. Also when I think about sound files, images, url links (i'm talking 2.x now... I hope links will be working :-) all that is much easier to add by some semi-automated process than type all that manually with each card you add. OK, I'm not using all this right now, but once mnemosyne allows url links, I'll write some code to go through all my entries and add link(s) to external dictionary website(s). I hope it will be possible as you are talking about SQL backend, so probably it will be available by other code than that of mnemosyne/python program. All the best, have a good weekend Normunds -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
