Flashcard List View

[Shun]

My suggestion may already have been implemented in the big update.

In the Flashcard List View settings, could you add "Def" (definition only) as a list layout? This list layout may look confusing, but it would be great for reviewing vocabulary quickly in the direction E-->Chinese-Pinyin. When the user wishes to review vocab before a test, this is the best way to do a quick check of all the flashcards because (s)he can then see many cards at a glance and only open those (s)he is unsure of. The setting "Head" (headword only) already allows this in the direction Chinese-->E-Pinyin.

I understand that this List View might lead to confusion for beginning users. Perhaps you could place it at the end and/or issue a warning if it is chosen? I realize it's important not to add any complexity, but you already allow a great deal of flexibility in many areas of the app, so to me this would be just one more such useful capability. Thank you!

 

[mikelove]

Reasonable idea, but we're really not considering any new features for the update that we're currently working on - we can keep it in mind for the update after that, though.

 

[SongKaiwen]

Might I add to this that it would be much more convenient if the lists were sorted from new (recently added) to old.

 

[mikelove]

That one's liable to be controversial since a lot of people are trying to construct them in a particular order going through a textbook or whatever - if you want to match up against a list you have somewhere else, oldest-to-newest is best.

 

[SongKaiwen]

Fair enough. In my case though I usually find myself frantically scrolling to the bottom of my 'Uncategorized' list if I want to put recently added cards in another category.

 

[mikelove]

We may eventually add options to sort them - not just in reverse added order but also by pinyin (another popular request) - just not supported yet, and defaulting to the opposite order would be problematic.

 

[SongKaiwen]

Makes sense, thanks for taking the time to reply!