I am missing some fundamental piece of knowledge re flashcards. Please help.

[dightonjw]

I'm hoping there is a way to accomplish this simply.

I often watch mandarin language videos on YouTube. Usually, I understand a good bit of what I hear but there are always unknown words. To remedy this, I've been doing the following:

1. Utilize the realtime speech recognition on iphone to capture the entire text of the video.
2. Copy the text into Pleco.
3. Sort the words according to the order they appear in the text.
4. Dump the words to a new category.
5. Create a flashcard test that only pulls from the new category.

The problem is that categories share MANY words, which means I'm stuck studying trivial words that I already know.

How can I either:
A) Filter a category to include ONLY words that don't already exist in a another category.
B) Filter the flashcard test to only test me on words that I'm not already studying in a different test.

 

[Shun]

Hi, you can do B) in a Legacy test:



I didn't see this in any of the new test types.

Cheers, Shun

 

[mikelove]

Easiest way to do this at the moment would be to tap on the filter button at the bottom right corner of 'words', and add a condition 'has flashcard' 'no'. That will limit the list of words to just new ones, which you can then dump to flashcards. You could also be more specific if there are some flashcards you would be OK with adding, e.g. a 'flashcard score' 'times reviewed' '=' '0' 'ever' 'any profile' in which case it would only exclude words in flashcards that had actually been reviewed once.

For a new-version profile, you could do 'cards from' 'custom conditions' and then add two 'flashcard categories' conditions, one to require the category you want and one to exclude the categories you don't.

That being said this probably should be an option in the 'dump' command so we'll think about adding that (maybe put a little menu with 'dump all' 'dump new cards' eventually 'dump to file' etc), thanks for flagging it.