The arrow left and right normally work well to get through words in a page or a sentence with one exception.
If an expression has all known words, the arrows land on the expression and then proceed to the next learning word.
If an expression has a word on status 1-4 it depends. Should the arrow land on the expression, it skips the “internal word” and goes to the first “learning” word after the expression.
If an expression has a word on status 1-4 and it lands on the “internal” word in stead of the expression, then it refuses to budge either way, left or right. If that happens, even clicking on a regular learning word will not help. The only remedy is a refresh of the page (F5).
Could you please correct this? It is a bit of a nuisance when expressions are on the page.
Please keep me updated when you decide to do it on approximately when.
P.S. the only statuses I use at the moment are status 1, status 3 and 4, but 4 is usually not part of an expression.
What would make sense for the language learner is always first landing on the expression and then on either “internal” learning words and subsequently on the following learning words.
Obviously, the reverse would literally be the reverse. So arrow back goes through the “internal” words first, finally the expression and then the preceding learning words.
That would make the logic easier to understand and to use.
I didn’t notice this behavior, which is unfortunate because I stopped using this feature because of its inconsistencies. Perhaps what you describe is one of the inconsistencies I experienced.
When the cursor gets caught, it forces the user to change the position of the hand on the keyboard, which is annoying. This is another proof that the developers don’t really use the app for learning on a daily basis. It would be very comfortable to be able to use the keyboard without having to change the position of our hands too much and being forced to go to the mouse or trackpad all the time.
Additionally, I don’t like that it stops on words marked 4. I use “4” for a different purpose, and it doesn’t make sense to me to have these constant interruptions. But I could be wrong.
The intention of status 4 is to count the field as known, but keep it accessible when you arrow through words. I do that for words I know, but am not entirely sure of, or I just want to keep easy access to the definition and the notes. This a feature that I appreciate a lot.
For all intents and purposes 4 is both learned and known, expressing an amount of being uncertain. Usually the status 4 words move to known after a while.
If you don’t want the arrow to respond to it, then move it to known.
You are right, grabbing for the mouse is annoying, but here the problem is, that repositioning with the mouse does not help. The arrow still does not function. You have to refresh the page.
Yes, you’re right, that’s why I said I was uncertain about the behavior of this arrow. I use “4” when the word has multiple meanings to remind myself that I know part of the word, but I don’t know other meanings, and that there are other possibilities.
The problem is that in Sentence View, for example, the “4” words don’t appear below the sentence because they are considered known. But with the arrows, they are selected as if they were not known. It’s another behavioral inconsistency. IMHO.
That is one of the reasons I move it to 4. I know the meaning, but the alternate meanings that do not occur as often, I am less sure of. Thank you for eliciting that one, I forgot to mention it.
Ah. I did not know that. I do use the definitions below the sentence, but it never occurred to me, that status 4 did not appear. Probably because status 4 means I do know their regular meaning.
No, not an inconsistency. It is a choice I have. If I want it gone, I choose known, otherwise I set it to learned and probably known. I actually really like this choice, and it is my choice. No automatics behind it.
Same goes for moving from 4 to 5: my choice. No automatics.
Oh, I meant manually, not automatically. I am very glad this is an area where I determine what happens, and no automatic process will change it behind my back. It is my choice.
As soon as I come across this 4-word and realize that I know it properly, I move it to known. Usually it doesn’t take too long to get there.
I intended to mean an inconsistency in the software’s behavior, not in your choices. Sorry for the misunderstanding. If the arrow stops at words marked “4”, then they should also appear below the Sentence View. At least that is how I interpret it.
Sometimes I wish we had another color, an independent color, like a “6” that we could just pick and use for our own methodology. Not part of the Sentence View, not part of the arrow movement. Just a color that we would use as a cue to remind us of something. In this case, I probably wouldn’t use the “4” and I would use the alternative color.