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Study settings for individual lists

KingWang   March 17th, 2013 3:00a.m.

I notice you can change your 'Study Settings' so that you are working on any combination of writing, tone, reading and definition at a given time. However, unless there's an option I've missed, the same setting has to be applied to all lists you're studying. It would be really useful to be able to customise this on a list-by-list basis. I'm currently studying the radicals list alongside a couple of HSK lists, and really just want to learn the meanings and not the pronunciation of the radicals, which doesn't strike me as particularly useful, but would like to learn everything for the HSK words.

Thoughts?

Alan   March 18th, 2013 5:31p.m.

Some radicals are also characters, and some of those can be used as standalone words. Also, some radicals give sound hints to the characters composed of them. For both these reasons, learning the sounds of the radicals is probably worthwhile.

Skritter only has one copy of each character in your master list, no matter which vocab list it was added from, so this doesn't sound really possible.

If there are any annoying pronunciations that you don't think are worthwhile, maybe just give them a perfect grade a few times; they will go away pretty quickly.

nomadwolf   March 19th, 2013 10:50p.m.

My understanding is that when a word is added, all "relevant" parts are added to your "currently studying" list. So, in theory this is possible, and when you get to that word in another list, it would add all of the remaining parts.

That said, the Skritter philosophy is generally to have minimal options, so I'm skeptical they would implement this, but it's worth to ask!
You can always ban parts that you don't want to study (but only from web version)

nick   March 22nd, 2013 12:02a.m.

The per-list parts setting is actually something that's on our list, but we just haven't gotten to it yet. We do agree that it will be very useful when we get it.

DependableSkeleton   March 25th, 2013 10:36a.m.

It would be useful if we could also adjust the traditional/simplified/both setting on a per-list basis. Then I could add traditional words from my regular lists, and add simplified (or both) characters from a most-common-character list.

On a related note, it would be useful to be able to automatically add the simplified forms (or both) of the characters which appear in my words (and add only traditional words). I'm thinking of the "Automatically add characters in words" setting here.

Either one of these features would suffice for me.

[Now that I'm on the topic, it would be totally awesome if the info box for a simplified character showed *all* of the traditional characters which simplify to the given character. I appreciate this may not be feasible from a visual-design (or any...) perspective. I'm just throwing it out there.]

nick   March 25th, 2013 11:22p.m.

When we do the per-list styles, we may also do the per-list parts, yes.

I think the second suggestion is too complicated--it took me a minute to understand what it is, and "also add characters when adding words" is already bad enough.

The word popup does show all the traditional characters for the selected simplified character...?

DependableSkeleton   March 26th, 2013 11:32a.m.

I'm sorry, I meant the info box on the iOS app.

nick   March 29th, 2013 12:15a.m.

Oh, yeah. Didn't have a good visual design for it.

DependableSkeleton   March 29th, 2013 10:34a.m.

I figured as much. Perhaps if there's more than one traditional character, shrink them all down to a quarter of the size and replace the current default single traditional character with all of them arranged in a grid. This may look dumb and you probably already thought about it.

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