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When adding words...

DaXia   October 7th, 2011 9:36a.m.

Hi!

Although this topic has been discussed before, and I understand changes have been made, there are some things that are still pretty irritating.

1. There is still no "quick" direct link to the "add words" function. Wouldn't it be more easy if the quick add link was directly on the vocab list page, without you first having to first click on the list. Or even better, put it in the my words where it used to be, because thats probably where most people go when they are looking for it.

Btw, what is quick add quicker than? If it's called "quick add", it would imply that there is another, more advanced but less quick way of adding words, but I for one don't know how to do that.

2. When quick adding words, it would be very very very helpful if you actually could edit things like translation and pinyin while adding the word!!!
I mean, when you click at edit now, you can just edit the characters, which is kind of useless, since you may as well just delete that word and re enter it if you somehow got it wrong.

I think what most people would want to edit is the translation. Some people might even want to type in custom translations in their own language.
The way it works now is that you have to first add the word, then you have to find it in the list you added it to, then edit it, which seems like a whole lot of work for just editing 1 word.
This gets even more frustrating when you add a whole bunch of words at one time, and have to try to remember which words you want to edit, unless you want to add one word at a time, but that doesn't seem very "quick" to me.

3. Actually, I forgot what I was supposed to write here...Yeye, I will edit it if I remember it later.

*edit* I remember now. It would also be very helpful if there were some ways to sort the words in the lists, like by number of strokes, by pronunciation, by time added, by time edited etc etc, because now it's very hard to find words that you haven't studied (thus not added to my words so you cant search for it), and that you want to edit.

Thanks!

DaXia   October 7th, 2011 3:12p.m.

Did the adding words thing just change a few hours ago? Because it's a lot better now!

*Edit* It's A LOT BETTER! Thanks guys!

nick   October 9th, 2011 9:06a.m.

Based on your suggestion, we're thinking of putting the Quick Add page back in the My Words tools. It's supposed to be quicker than creating a Vocab list and putting words/sections into it.

We might have something for editing words' definitions as you're putting them in. It might involve a word popup, though.

Here's the info on the quick add changes:
http://blog.skritter.com/2011/10/quick-add-bar.html
http://blog.skritter.com/2011/10/quick-add-page.html
http://blog.skritter.com/2011/10/quick-add-shortcut.html

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