Hi!
I got in question where I didn't expect - tried to import flashcards from a .txt to a specified Pleco's category - and found out that's impossible (or I didn't search properly).
Also in txt import there's no those nice settings like in creating a single card - in what it concerns dupes (behavior with dupes differences whether they are in category or not).
Why I needed this? Here's the user story as the title goes: I read one book intermittently on my android phone in Pleco where I add cards in Pleco's cool way, no problems here.
But sometimes I also read the same book on my E-ink reader, where I lookup unknown words in a dictionary and add them to a list (plaintext) - then I import this list into Pleco to have my entire base at hand to study.
But this list for import may contain words that are already in Pleco's flashcards (e.g. imported in the previous import session), which I included again by own fault or elsehow.
And here, there isn't the abovementioned great setting to behave separately when the dupes are in the target category or elsewhere - dupe candidates are compared with all the Pleco's flashcard base. While I'm ok with importing dupes when they result in different categories, I don't want to have them in the same category. But how can this be achieved? Yes, I can be more accurate and keep the record which new words I added and which I haven't. But it's much more appealing not to care about this and just import the vocab in bulk and be sure that Pleco will manage all the rest, getting rid of unneeded dupes and keeping the right ones. Given that there already are the great settings for it to be done. But they only reside in another section (not the one concerning import).
And also there's no dupe check when copying/moving from one category (e.g. from the default Uncategorized) to another category (the target one where you'd want to keep the resulting flashcards) - and that's why I'd need to be able to set the target category for import - this way I'd be able to allow dupes if the original card is somewhere else and skip (or update existing) if the original card is in the target category.
UPD: while I have been writing the above text, a partial solution came to my mind: add the first line to the txt for import with target category name. But I won't remove the question hence there might be way better solutions )) Also this method doesn't resolve the need for different behavior for dupes depending they're in a target cat or elsewhere.
I got in question where I didn't expect - tried to import flashcards from a .txt to a specified Pleco's category - and found out that's impossible (or I didn't search properly).
Also in txt import there's no those nice settings like in creating a single card - in what it concerns dupes (behavior with dupes differences whether they are in category or not).
Why I needed this? Here's the user story as the title goes: I read one book intermittently on my android phone in Pleco where I add cards in Pleco's cool way, no problems here.
But sometimes I also read the same book on my E-ink reader, where I lookup unknown words in a dictionary and add them to a list (plaintext) - then I import this list into Pleco to have my entire base at hand to study.
But this list for import may contain words that are already in Pleco's flashcards (e.g. imported in the previous import session), which I included again by own fault or elsehow.
And here, there isn't the abovementioned great setting to behave separately when the dupes are in the target category or elsewhere - dupe candidates are compared with all the Pleco's flashcard base. While I'm ok with importing dupes when they result in different categories, I don't want to have them in the same category. But how can this be achieved? Yes, I can be more accurate and keep the record which new words I added and which I haven't. But it's much more appealing not to care about this and just import the vocab in bulk and be sure that Pleco will manage all the rest, getting rid of unneeded dupes and keeping the right ones. Given that there already are the great settings for it to be done. But they only reside in another section (not the one concerning import).
And also there's no dupe check when copying/moving from one category (e.g. from the default Uncategorized) to another category (the target one where you'd want to keep the resulting flashcards) - and that's why I'd need to be able to set the target category for import - this way I'd be able to allow dupes if the original card is somewhere else and skip (or update existing) if the original card is in the target category.
UPD: while I have been writing the above text, a partial solution came to my mind: add the first line to the txt for import with target category name. But I won't remove the question hence there might be way better solutions )) Also this method doesn't resolve the need for different behavior for dupes depending they're in a target cat or elsewhere.
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