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chickendude / Natibo

Breathe new life into your Glossika PDF/MP3 courses!
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Change course settings later #18

Open jubalh opened 5 years ago

jubalh commented 5 years ago

When one creates a course one can:

Would be nice to be able to change these settings later on in the course.

chickendude commented 5 years ago

This is also planned, i've just been focusing on adding other functionality before getting into specifics like this. It'll be easier to add once the first full-feature release is ready.

jubalh commented 5 years ago

Nice. Actually this would be one of the more important things for me personally. Because I like to use the courses like this: When I have holidays I would like to do 10 new sentences a session. However during workweek 5 is enough. Also when the new sentences come I usually like to have Chorus enabled but for all the sentences I can already do well I would like to switch it off.

So having 'enabling chorus' and 'number of new sentences' in the individual course settings where so far we have 'pause between sentences' and 'change starting point' would be awesome!

BorisNA commented 5 years ago

I believe it would be great to have an option to enable Chorus for some number of repeats for the new sentence (or maybe for the day it was introduced), but make it daily repeats afterwards without Chorus.

chickendude commented 5 years ago

@BorisNA that's actually something i have planned, being able to customize the schedules much more (what you mentioned is exactly the use-case i had in mind), i just haven't had much time to dedicate to Natibo lately. It's a feature that i'd like to have myself so i'll try to put it on priority, for now i'm trying to clean up some of the bugs (which #37 will probably help with as well).

BorisNA commented 5 years ago

@chickendude good to hear it!

It is a wishful thinking - unfortunately I'm not in the mobile development to help - but it would be great to have the following options, that old good file-based Glossika lacks:

1) Customizable separate settings for introducing a sentence and repeating a sentence. That is, I'd like to have about 3 (or even 4) seconds and a chorus while learning the sentence for the first time, and ~ 2-3 seconds and no chorus while drilling. Or even a repeat-with-chorus drill mode vs repeat-without chorus, since it is definitely helpful in the first stages but could be overkill later in the same course.

2) Separate chunk based modes for (a) introducing a sentence, where one should read from the screen and (b) pure audio-based drilling.

What's more, I believe it would make sense to allow several sessions a day for learning and repeating - it would help when commuting, because walking and reading a new sentence from the screen is not a good option :). For example, in a single day, all manually started and stopped: learn in a train (some 10 sentences) - repeat while walking (old ones and some of these 10 new) - learn on a bus (another 10) - repeat while walking again (old + new 10 + newest 10) - etc.

3) Record you own pronunciation and automatically play it back simultaneously with the existing recording to check if intonations and the flow are correct (very useful option - I don't know if it is available anywhere in mobile apps).

I could add many more use cases / user stories, but I totally understand that you are a one-man-army. So, many thanks for what you have done already :)