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Pentesilea   August 24th, 2009 12:47a.m.

Can you please refer me to a step-by-step instruction on how to add single words from a vocabulary list to a scratch list or cram list? I can't figure it out - mabe my english in´t good enoughr ;-)

george   August 24th, 2009 11:23a.m.

Hey Pentesilea, my bet is your English is fine, it's our design that stinks. Scott and I are working right now on improving every last vocabulary page, and hopefully things will be much easier to understand in the near future. (Would you mind helping us out with that effort? I can email you some mockups and you could tell us what you think.)

Adding words to the scratchpad is easy, just type or paste the character you want into the "Add Word" field. It's right above the vocabulary zone, it's just a text field with a standard button. Here's a screencap with the add word area highlighted: http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/989/addword.jpg.

Adding to a cram list requires a little more configuring. Go to practice>cram. On that page, click the "Add new list" button, enter or copy and paste the items you want to learn. After you're done, click the "Add list button," the list should process, after which you can click the "Study" button to the left of the list.

If you have any other questions please feel free to email me directly: george at skritter.com and I can help you out.

Thanks for giving Skritter a try!

Doug (松俊江)   September 2nd, 2009 10:12a.m.

Having the search box act like an IME would be cool - there are some chinese websites that do this. If there is an API/toolkit that could do it easily it would likely be worth it (for those newbies who have not yet installed and/or configured an IME).

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