I've been searching the forums for a while to see if I am missing something obvious with no luck...

I've been using Skritter for a couple of years previously on a touch screen Windows laptop/tablet hybrid and now on an iPhone (I love skritter and chose the iPhone over other smart phones purely for skritter).

One thing I used to love on the web version was the ability, while studying, to delve into info on a word/character to find out things such as words that contain that character etc. I know that through the Pleco connection this is possible on the ios app but what I really miss is being able to add words to a 'miscellaneous' list with one click. Now I have to copy a new word, stop studying, load the list section in the app (can take a long time using my slow mobile connection in china: around 20 seconds usually), load the miscellaneous list(another 10 to 20 seconds), click 'quick add' words (a phrase I find a little ironic!) and then paste them there (this doesn't always work for me)...

I've tried work arounds like copying into notes and uploading groups of words together rather than doing them 1 by one that kills my study flow.

I also read a lot of Chinese content on apps and Safari and on the laptop I could quick add using a google chrome plugin.

Is there something I'm missing? Is this the only way for me to 'quick add'? It's driving me crazy!

I'm on the road a lot and the iPhone is my main resource for reading/watching/listening to Chinese (or at least noting down new words on the fly) and quick adding would be fantastic!

Any ideas?

My prefered method of adding on the web version is to press Shift-A anywhere on the website.

I don't add on my phone, but if I did, I guess book marking skritter.com/vocab/quickadd would be the quickest way...

It's true, we don't have a good method for doing word adding from the iOS device. It's something we should improve, but we haven't had the time to design anything for it yet, as doing the client-side list editing is a pain. Perhaps we'll just require an internet connection and send it to the server. Would you want an "add" button in the backsides info view, near the ban and star?

ocastling, just leave the quick-add screen tab always open in safari on your iPhone. Then quick-adding is really just a double-tap to safari away. you don't need to copy paste either, I suggest enabling simplified-pinyin to your language options on the phone, then when you just type the pinyin into the quick-add box and the all the 妹 characters pop up. This also has the advantage of showing you all the characters in order of frequency... So if you're wondering if you're adding a really obscure radical... it will be obvious if you have to scroll through 500 different "shi" before you see the one you're looking for.

The feature you speak of would indeed be sweet... but it's not too hard to work around

@ Byzanti, thanks for the tip, I now have the quick add page as a bookmark on my home screen - great short term fix

@ Nick: actually, I think the ability to add from Pleco would be my perfect solution - then I could look up the word/character through the current integration with Pleco and add words from there, do you know if Pleco is considering an add to Skritter function anytime soon?

@ timwebber - yes, the quick add is quite convenient. RE: using the pinyin input to judge frequency - not a bad idea! 2 points that may have an effect on this: 1. individual characters: I want to see their frequency in other words; however the pinyin input method may not show them as they are not common by themselves. 2. I use my phone for work and so text/email in Chinese a lot; as such my simplified pinyin input on iPhone prioritises a huge number of very obscure business terms and personal names!

Mike at Pleco is preparing to build the send-vocab-list-to-Skritter function, but we haven't quite finished the part of the Skritter API that he needs in order to do so. It's a top priority on our end, though.

加油!! This would be an excellent addition! It would save quite a lot of fiddling with saving to TXT file, sending to another program (because sometimes it is hard to select all and copy large lists in Pleco), and then cut and pasting into Skritter.