Description:
Vocabulary Cards is a versatile flash card application for Palm OS powered devices.
Do you still want to carry a large, bulky and heavy stack of flash cards with you?
If the answer is NO and you own a Palm powered device: Vocabulary Cards is your alternative!
This application is a powerful replacement for these tiny flash cards made of cardboard.
Features include:
Create dictionaries with up to 65.000 flash cards.
Manage your dictionaries.
Beam your dictionaries to friends who also own a Palm device.
Import cards from a Excel spreadsheet.
Import cards from Memo.
English, german, french and spanish versions available.
Learn algorithm is a modified version of Sebastian Leitner's box method.
Expanded learning modus: Drill (optional).
Three different algorithms for card selection: oldest first, older than a defined time period or random.
Number of cards to be selected can be defined for each tray.
Two display modi: Fullscreen and split card.
Soft buttons and menu can be switched off.
Statistics about your learning progress.
Already created cards can be edited and deleted.
Acustic feedback when next tray is chosen (optional).
Function to reset all or only selected cards to first tray.
Application can be controlled by hardware buttons and/or soft buttons, even on old devices.
Full support of 5-way navigator or Jog dial (starting with version 0.4.3).
Download the german, french and and spanish versions from the projects homepage: http://www.dolphin-world.de/software/vc-download.php
If you want a version localized in your language: it is quiet easy to translate the text. Just contact me.
You are encouraged to send bug reports or feature requests. I am very interested in getting a feedback on stability, handling/usage and ergonomy.
Update Description:
v1.0.1:
Bug fix: When an error has occured the default dialog after a reset is now the mainscreen. Should prevent reset loops.
Bug fix: Added an error handling routine in import from tool dialog to prevent a reset when no import database was found.
Bug fix: When updating from a card box older than one version sometimes the last step was skipped.
Bug fix: When an info/edit dialog is called from incomplete/marked/search dialog and then the program is exited the return path was not defined. To be secure now the return path is always the main screen.
Bug fix: Update card box and preferences skipped sometimes profiles. Backport from 1.1.2.
Bug fix: When a card currently in a drill lesson was edited to "incomplete" the card was not removed from the drill loop. Now it will be detected and replaced.
New feature: Changed the words and stats struct for future card tag support.
New feature: Changed gender and set dict info routine to prevent altering of card tags when a database from a 1.1.x beta is used.
Translation fixes.
Shortcut for Card box in main menu for english translation was missing.
For a complete changelog see: http://www.dolphin-world.de/software/vc-changelog.php
Reviews:
***** [Apr 6, 2006] by perros
Has never crashed on my palm. Excellent program. Make sure you get the excel template to create vocabulary lists with words/sentence. A must have if you are learning a second language, or third.
**** [Jun 10, 2004] by Carl (Geneva, Switzerland)
Good idea but crashes my Treo600 (PalmOS5) when I tap on prefs.