Study List ... many Q's + possible bug

[najevi]

I have been using Tagaini for a little less than a year. 

It seems to me that words I have added to the Study List are removing themselves from the Study List without any explicit action by me.

• Is this indeed the case?
  i.e. is there some limit to the capacity of the list and therefore some first-in-first-out style algorithm that trims the Study List in the background?
  
  
• Can I see the item count for the Study List?
  
• Can I browse the Study List in a-ka-sa-ta-na-ha-ma-ya-ra-wa style order?
  
• Can I save the Study List to an external file?
  

Regarding the User database file at C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Local/Tagaini Jisho/user.db 

I can only presume that items marked for the Study List, items with Notes and perhaps any saved searches and user preferences are stored in this file.

• Is this user.db a file that I can inspect readily?
• If so then what tool/application should I use to view it's content legibly?

I might just as easily ask all the same questions (above) about jisho entries that have Notes added to them but for now I am happy to limit my questions to the scope of just the Study List.

Regards,

[Alfonso Arbona Gimeno]

Hello.

I'm not a tagaini developer so I might be wrong but I have been using
it for a long time.


> It _seems to me_ that words I have added to the Study List are

> removing themselves from the Study List without any explicit action by
> me.
>

> * Is this indeed the case?

Are you sure that you are not mixing kanji entries with vocabulary
entries?
Sometimes they look the same but in reality they are not.

> i.e. is there some limit to the capacity of the list and therefore
> some first-in-first-out style algorithm that trims the Study List in
> the background?

I don't think there is any. As you pointed out later, the user
information
is in the database file and it doesn't have a maximum capacity apart
from
your hard disk size.



> * Can I see the item count for the Study List?

Yes. Go to the "Studied" tab and choose "Studied" leaving the other
filters
unset (minimum score set to 0 and maximum score set to 100). The number
of
results is the number of entries that you added to the study list (the
value is shown in the right corner, just on top of the list).



> * Can I browse the Study List in a-ka-sa-ta-na-ha-ma-ya-ra-wa style
> order?

I believe not directly. But you can filter so that only entries that
start
with "あ" are show (the entry itself or the reading), then the ones that
start with "い", etc.

To do so, again, go to the "Studied" tab and select "studied" with the
default filters so that it shows your whole study list.
Then in the "Text search" tab filter using "あ*" so that everything that
starts with "a" AND is in your study list is shown.
The asterisk means "anything" so the filter means "a, followed by
anything".

It's not exactly what you want but close enough. Keep in mind that this
search option includes the entry itself (usually the kanji) and the
reading (usually hiragana).



> * Can I save the Study List to an external file?

I don't know about that. There is an "export user data" under "Program"
in
the menu bar. But I haven't checked the file that it creates.

> Regarding the User database file at
> C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Local/Tagaini Jisho/user.db
>

> * Is this user.db a file that I can inspect readily?

Yes. It is a normal sqlite database.



> * If so then what tool/application should I use to view it's content
> legibly?

Under linux I use "sqliteman", don't know about windows. But keep in
mind that
this is the raw database so it contains a lot of stuff that only devs
understand and it's not intended for normal users.


Regards,
Alfonso Arbona Gimeno