Hi Peter,

A lot of Mnemosyne users (at least the ones who respond in this forum) are
tech-literate. They write Python scripts, are smart, etc.

I can only speak for the mundanes, i.e. the non-tech-literate users :-) The
current Mnemosyne entry dialog box is fine. I actually do the opposite of
what someone mentioned above. I have a .txt list of Chinese vocab I
periodically add to as I encounter new words. Then, when the list gets long
enough, I open Mnemosyne and add the vocab directly, one by one.

Didn't know about the entry shortcuts. Didn't think to tile my Mnemosyne and
Notepad windows together. I suppose if I knew that, that would save some
time. Maybe put that information into a Did You Know tip on startup?

--murrayjames


2011/3/7 Peter Bienstman <[email protected]>

> On Saturday, March 05, 2011 01:25:55 pm normunds wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Well, you can still run 1.x side-by-side just for import purposes if you
> need
> 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.
>
> OK, so this really sounds then like something in Mnemosyne that could be
> improved to help you with your workflow. I suggest that you try the same
> with
> 2.0 in due course, and if it's still too slow, just let us know.
>
> > 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.
>
> There are two ways this could be achieved with Mnemosyne 2.0. Either write
> a
> script to edit your SQL database and add these links, or (way cooler I
> think)
> write what's called a Filter which will dynamically add these links to your
> displayed cards as soon as they come up for review (leaving the SQL
> database
> as it is).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
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