Catalogue

The workshop for words: every language together, as tiles or a table, with filters, search and actions on hundreds of words at once. It opens from the “Edit in the catalogue” button on the Words page.

Left column: what to show

The filters add up: a deck + a stage + “missing” + tags + a search narrow the list together.

• Decks — all words, one whole language or one deck; decks are grouped by language under a flag. Click a language’s name for all its words; the arrow left of the flag folds the group. Click a language or a deck again to drop the filter. The “⋯” menu by a deck has the same actions as on Words, plus “Open in «Words»”. “+” makes a new deck (a name and a language pair).
• Stage — new, learning, almost, learned, waiting (due for review today) and not sticking; each with its count.
• Missing — words with no audio, no audio for the meaning, no image. The block appears only when there are such words.
• Tags — where a word came from: a lesson, a text, a video, or your own labels; several tags can be picked together.

With “Waiting” picked, the pile’s cuts appear under it: last 2 days, this week, older — the same ones the review session offers. Words that are not sticking are not counted here: they are under “Not sticking”, and their tile says “to training” instead of “today”.

Search and view

• Search looks in the word, the translation, the example and the dictionary entry.
• Two view buttons: tiles (picture, word, translation, stage, when next, frequency) and table.
• Sorting the tiles: newest first, by frequency, by word, by translation, by interval, by lapses, due soonest. In the table, the column headers sort.
• “+ Word” adds a word in the panel on the right; with a deck picked, the word goes into it.

Found

• Found N — how many words match the filters.
• select all loaded — select everything shown, to apply an action to all of it.
• Export N words — exactly what was found, to a file (see “Import and export”).
• With the “no audio” or “no audio for the meaning” filter there is also “Voice all N”: speech synthesis gives sound to every word found, one after another, with a counter.

Tiles load 60 at a time — “Show more” at the bottom.

Picking words

• Click — pick one word (click again to drop it);
• Ctrl+click (⌘+click on a Mac) — add a word to the pick or take it out;
• Shift+click — pick everything between the previous one and this.

One word: editing

One picked word opens on the right in the same panel as a new one: deck, the word with its pronunciation and frequency, the translation, the sound of the word and of the meaning (synthesise, record your own voice, upload a file, remove), an example, a picture, the dictionary entry. Every field is described in the “Add a word” article. “Save” or “Delete” at the bottom.

Several words: bulk actions

With two words or more picked, the panel shows how many and whether they are one language pair, and the actions:

• Move to deck — only to decks of the same language pair; words of different pairs are not moved together. There is no pause for single words: to pause words, move them into a paused deck (marked «paused» in the list);
• Tag — type a name; + adds the tag to all, − removes it;
• Generate audio and Voice the meanings — only for those without it; you can see how many;
• Export — to a spreadsheet, Anki or an archive;
• Reset progress — the words start as new, their review history goes (the app asks first);
• Delete — permanently, with the history (it asks too).

An action on “all loaded” can touch thousands of words: it runs in parts, but as one.

Table

The table shows every word found as one list — you scroll it rather than load more. Click a column header to sort by it, again to reverse.

“Columns” — which to show: translation, stage, next review, deck, tags, frequency (on at first), and also lapses, interval, date added, sound & picture. This browser remembers the choice.

Dragging

• A tile or a row can be dragged onto a deck on the left to move the word there. If the word is picked together with others, all the picked ones move.
• Decks of another language pair are greyed while you drag — they cannot take it.
• A deck can be dragged up or down — the same order as on Words, and the order of new words.

On a phone

A table, bulk actions and dragging are awkward on a phone, so the catalogue first offers to go back to Words, where a single word is fixed in its card. “Open anyway” opens the catalogue.

Questions

How is the catalogue different from Words?

Words is one language, to see how it is going and choose what to learn. The catalogue is every language, to find and change many words at once.

How do I give sound to every word without it?

On the left, “Missing → no audio”, then “Voice all N” above the list.

Does my teacher see my catalogue?

Only if you gave access to that language pair (Settings → Teachers and students). Then the top of their view says whose catalogue it is and what they may do in it: only look, add, or also edit.

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