Previously, you saved words by marking them with a colour (red, green, yellow, blue). This functionality is still available (now called ‘tags’), but the colours are shown as underlines under the word. By default, right-clicking a word no longer changes its tag colour, but you can configure this in the settings.
Old system:
This is an example text with different saved words.New system:
This is an example text with different saved words.In this update, Language Reactor can now track for you which words you know, and for the words you don’t know, it suggests if you should learn them or not. This allows the software to do some useful things. It works for about 40 languages.
- Words you know or should pay attention to are shown in WHITE.
- Words you marked for learning are shown in ORANGE.
- Infrequent words that you don’t need to learn now are coloured GREY.
These categories we call ‘Learning Stages’.
You can quickly set your approximate vocabulary size by clicking the setting icon in the dictionary. You don’t need to mark every word individually.
If you already have a lot of words saved with colours, you can bulk mark them with a Learning Stage:
- Click the ‘Saved Items’ tab.
- Click on ‘Saved Words’.
- Select the tag colour in the dropdown.
- Click the ‘select all’ checkbox.
- Select the ‘Learning Stage’ you wish to assign to these words.
Once you have done this, you might want to disable coloured underlines for tags, in the settings tab, to reduce visual noise when watching movies etc.
If you prefer, you don’t need to use this colouring system. In the settings, you can disable the colouring of words by learning state:
October 2022