I really like the idea of making the main input a saveable textarea that can hold multiple words rather than just one. Reminds me of Numi and Soulver, which do this for calculators (I never went back to a traditional calculator app after discovering them). I wonder if there's other apps that could be made more powerful by replacing the single-input with a textarea.
Why I built a dictionary app
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Re: Why I built a dictionary app
#82I too wrote a similar app for my personal problem and also served to be a good way to learn about kotlin and Android ecosystem. I also tried a rewrite in flutter and compose. The idea was to use select the word and then click meaning from context menu so that meaning occurs as notification and disappears in 15 seconds. I used Wiktionary as dataset source and app works offline. https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai…
> I also tried a rewrite in flutter
Tried? Mind elaborating? I'm working on a flutter app atm - do you mean it didn't work out? / you didn't end up liking flutter?
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#83Beautifully done! Kudos for the concept and the application of it.
Flashcards is such a natural extension for such an app and I had just pitched flashcards to someone asking me for ideas for a new Dictionary app for Math. Thank you for the validation haha
Do look into one app I especially like called Memorize on iOS using flashcards very effectively for vocab learning.
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/memorize-learn-sat-vocabulary/...
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#84Well this is... eerie. I just released Stictionary[1] on Friday. It is an offline, ad free, dictionary that remembers words you look up. It gives a word of the day and provides (admittedly underfeatured atm) flashcards to review your word lists. It includes optional syncing to keep your word lists across devices. I've been holding off posting about it while i complete the website[2]. Love to see someone else had such…
Fantastic tool, thank you! Any chance you could include usage in a sentence for each word? As a non-native speaker, sometimes it is not obvious from the description on how the word is typically used.
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#85I'm reading 'Love in the Time of Cholera' atm and was literally too afraid to look up words for fear of distraction. I can't wait to use flashcards! A favorites section might be a cool feature - for words you want to start working into conversations
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#86I cannot download it from my HK app store account.
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#87Downloaded an tested, well done!
I'm also non-native eng speaker and user case is the same, reading lot of e-books with my phone.
I would really like to have a typeahead that would help if i don't remember the word correcly or the word is not in the basic form? in the book
or does the sqllite not support LIKE 'word%' queries?
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Re: Why I built a dictionary app
#89Well this is... eerie. I just released Stictionary[1] on Friday. It is an offline, ad free, dictionary that remembers words you look up. It gives a word of the day and provides (admittedly underfeatured atm) flashcards to review your word lists. It includes optional syncing to keep your word lists across devices. I've been holding off posting about it while i complete the website[2]. Love to see someone else had such…
loooks good
when in google play?
Re: Why I built a dictionary app
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's very stupid, but I check dictionary definitions in an incognito window because I'm horrified of someday people coming across my browser history and thinking "Wow, he didn't know the definition of that ?! What an idiot!" The idea of a dictionary that tracks my searches horrifies me in a silly way. Ha!
Looking up words is not stupid. Misusing words because you assume you know what they mean, that is stupid.
> Misusing words because you assume you know what they mean, that is stupid.
But if you're sure you know what it means (albeit incorrectly), because that's what you've picked up or been taught and no-one has ever corrected or queried you, where would the impetus to look it up in a dictionary come from?
You might have a case for "deliberately misusing words [...] is stupid" but there's a long comedic and literary tradition there...