bulk fill fields, test profile help

[Bambookae]

I’d really appreciate some guidance.

1. I imported sentence cards in Traditional Chinese. Is there a way to bulk “Apply Derived Text…” to populate the Simplified field/container?

My goal:

• Save key vocabulary words in a category
• Attach self-mined example sentences to each word so they appear under “My Dictionary” under that word in the search
• Test individual words (this part works fine)
• Test Cloze-style example sentence where I type the Hanzi keyheadword (Audio for both the full sentence and the keyword -Use only the QiangTTS Male voice)

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Notes for my reference/others:

1.Save Vocab in a category on pleco
2. Import your sentence cards as a txt file in the format

/Category//Subcategory (?)
Simplified Sentence<tab>Pinyin<tab>English
with each sentence as a new row

*to the SAME CATEGORY as the vocab or to USER CREATED DICTIONARY? *

3. Go in to each vocab entry in that category, examples tab and link the relevant sentence you imported.

New Flashcard Test Profile
Select the category you want and review scheduling type
Learning -Test Types Self Graded Cloze
Half of your category will be the Sentences that will appear as invalid cards -ignore and start test ?



To try
Batch editing the whole category to generate links to sentence cards?
is there a way to batch convert simplified chinese to traditional to eliminate the below issue.
what does the text action, transform, rebuild do

 

[mikelove]

Sorry for the confusion; this is an area we're still trying to refine our UI a bit.

To connect your own cloze sentences, go into Settings / Definition screen and turn on "show example flash buttons." Then, in the Card Info screen, go to the Dict tab, Examples tab, and you should see little 'link' icons next to examples there, including for the examples in flashcards. Click on the link for each example you want to link to the card and it will then draw from those as potential cloze sentences.

 

[Bambookae]

Ok yeah I have that setting on but am still getting invalid cards so not sure what I'm doing wrong. Will wait for the update

 

[mikelove]

Sorry, are you getting invalid card errors even for cards that you have specifically linked to dictionary examples?

 

[Bambookae]

It's my bad, no doubt it's obvious.

I don't know how I should organise anything. To clarify:
1. By linking the sentence to the entry card I now have 'Flashcard Examples" and "Flashcards" Both showing the same sentence? Is this right? Why is there 2?

2. When I try to do a review should I make sure the category only contains the entry card types to avoid invalid cards? If I move the sentences to just be listed under a user dictionary, will this break the flashcard reviewing?

3. Also some cards seem to be invalid because they have no linked sentence even though there is one available. For example in the picture below you can see i have an entry 鸡尾酒 and example 他喜欢点酸一点的鸡尾酒，像mo ji tuo那种。 but under the 鸡尾酒 entry it doesnt come up as an option

 

[Bambookae]

Ok for 3. I've just seen that'll be because of the traditional/simplified issue. Any help on 1. and 2. will be greatly appreciated, thanks!

 

[mikelove]

1) Sorry, yeah, the 'flashcard examples' thing is supposed to be 'favorites' and have a heart toggle icon (which would be much more sensible) but we haven't finished that little bit yet. So the one on the top is the important one.

2) That won't actually matter, 'invalid' at the moment basically just means that there's no linked example sentence in your flashcards and there's also no linked example sentence from any of our dictionaries.

#3 is not actually traditional/simplified, basically the problem is that we've found that simply relying on "any example that comes in up in Examples" for clozes is too unreliable because too many of them are irrelevant to the word or have it as part of another phrase or are in some other way not a good source to study the word with. So with built-in dictionary example sentences it only uses a) examples that actually appear in the entry or b) other examples we've explicitly flagged in the database (generally for entries that don't have any examples in the entry).

The problem is that with words like 升啤酒 that aren't necessarily covered in a dictionary with example sentences, we don't really have any other source for examples except examples that you have explicitly favorited with that link button, so that's why you currently have to do that.

I think going forward we will probably fall back on searching example sentences *in your flashcard database* for clozes that contain the word even if they haven't been picked explicitly. That's not ideal for the reasons I mentioned above, but if it's an example sentence that a user specifically added to their flashcard database then they can't very well blame us that it came up in a Cloze test. Examples that you favorited would still take priority, and we would still encourage anybody serious about cloze testing to take the time to pick specific sentences that center the word you're learning in a way that makes sense to you, but if you just want to dump a bunch of vocabulary and a bunch of examples into Pleco flashcards and have it figure out how to put them together, this would do that.