Hi,
I can't work out how to add my own comments to each character for when I'm practicing... so I can see my own notes about the character next to the scratch pad instead of (or in addition to) the default character description.

I'm assuming this is done when creating a custom list but I seem to be missing something.
Any advice would be much appreciated! :)

Cheers
Muzz

We're just alpha testing those features for right now. I will add you to the alpha users list and sometime later today you'll be able to do it. You just click the "add word mnemonic" or "add char mnemonic" buttons while practicing, or click the definitions to edit them.

Ah I didn't realise! Thanks very much for that :)

-nick, could you also add me to the alpha testing list?

Thanks

Yup. By the way, we're getting very close on most of these features, oh ho ho...

Is that something akin to an example, like an area in a custom list to add a sentence for contextual understanding?

Hi Nick, I tried it out and it's very good. As it's in Alpha stage I'm guessing you could use feedback.

Feedback:
1 - Biggest want is to be able to add mnemonics to characters when creating a custom list. The way it is now, I have to cycle through everything on my practice page once to add all the mnemonics and then go back and practice them after that.

2. When copying and pasting into the mnemonic box quite a few letters seem to turn into symbols such as @ or even Chinese characters when they should just English letters part of a word.

Will let you know if I notice anything else! Keep up the good work :)

@icybeam, the mnemonics are more for whatever notes or comments might help you remember the word, like looking at the components of a character and thinking about how those components hint at the meaning. Example sentences are also coming, check out this topic for more info:

http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=32608175&comments=18

@murray, I'm actually working on a new list editor right now and I'm starting to think of how stars and custom definitions and mnemonics can be worked into that. Thinking about it for a little bit, it'll be tough to work in those things without slowing down loading time and also keeping the interface as simple as possible (there's an awful lot going on in the new list viewer/editor). We'll see if we can come up with something though!

Don't know about number 2, though. Nick is gone for the weekend so he'll look into it when he gets back.

I will see about fixing this bug, Murray; thanks for the heads up.

Murray, I'm looking at the mnemonics you've made, and although I see non-ASCII characters (like — instead of --, or ’ instead of '), they seem to be displaying fine in my browsers.

Can you report what browser you're using and what encoding it thinks the page is in? (Usually it's something like Page -> Encoding. It should be UTF-8.)