I think this is the general behavior of tech-literate people vs
non-toch-literate people... While the latter prefer a simple interface
with buttons to work with, the former usually speed up things by working
with scripts and parsing a lot of entries at once. The Add dialog is
probably just fine, Peter, for any average user... But I would really
not recommend leaving out the import feature (xml or txt) for version
2.0, seemingly you have at least a few geeky users out there (myself
included).
Mvh.
Randi
Den 08-03-2011 03:11, Murray James Morrison skrev:
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]
<mailto:[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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