Selecting many exercises

Every row of a deck’s page has a checkbox, and the bar under the filters works on what is ticked: tag twenty exercises at once, move a lesson’s worth into a deck of its own, start a chapter over, or cram just the ones for tomorrow’s test.

1. Choosing what to select#

A checkbox

selects one exercise.

Shift with a click

selects everything between the last one you ticked and this one — on a checkbox or anywhere on a row. The same on a row that is already selected deselects the range instead. The tip under the bar reminds you: Shift-click a checkbox or exercise row to select or deselect a range.

Select all

selects every exercise of the deck, shown or not, and Deselect all lets everything go.

Select shown

adds only the rows the filters show — pick the tag food in the filters, then Select shown, and you have the food.

Deselect shown

is its opposite: it lets go of the rows the filters show, and whatever they hide stays selected. Select all, then the type Flashcard in the filters and Deselect shown, and you have every exercise but the flashcards.

Select by tag

asks for a tag — every tag of the deck is offered — and Select matching makes the selection exactly the exercises with it (what was selected before is let go). A deck with no tags says This deck has no exercise tags yet.

3 selected, beside these buttons, always says how many there are.

A range follows the rows as they are shown, so with a filter on it takes only what you see between the two clicks — and an exercise the filter hides keeps whatever state it had. The selection itself lasts: changing the filters, adding or removing tags, copying, even leaving the page and coming back in the same tab leaves it as it was. An exercise that is deleted drops out of it.

2. What to do with them#

The buttons stay dimmed until something is selected.

Copying and moving to another deck#

Copy to deck… and Move to deck… ask for the Destination deck: every other deck of the same language (with none, you are told to Create another deck in this language first).

Copies keep their tags and start with fresh scheduling, as the copy dialog puts it; Scheduling and tags travel with moved exercises, as the move dialog does. The pictures and recordings they name are copied into the other deck’s folders, under another name if that deck already has a different file of the same name — exactly as a copy from a document. A copy is not checked against what the other deck already holds. In the other deck they count as just added, so a new one waits after the new exercises already there.

A pair travels whole. When both sides of a linked pair are among the selected exercises, they arrive as a linked pair in the other deck, front first. A side chosen without the other arrives linked with nothing — a link never crosses from one deck to another — and a move of one side leaves the other, in this deck, linked with nothing too.

After a move of the selection you are taken to the other deck, with the moved exercises selected there, and told how many moved — so you can go on working on them where they now are. Each row also has its own Copy to deck… and Move to deck…, for one exercise: moving a row that is part of the selection takes you along in the same way; moving one that is not leaves you where you were.

Tags#

Add tag…

asks for one tag and puts it on every selected exercise. A tag may hold spaces; it is kept in lower case (Week 1 becomes week 1).

Remove tag…

offers the tags the selected exercises carry, and takes the one you pick off all of them.

The selection stays after both, so replacing an old tag with a new one is Remove tag… and Add tag… in a row, without selecting again.

Tags come into a deck with the exercises copied from a document (the document’s tags), and can then be added and removed here. They are the deck’s own: changing a document’s tags afterwards changes nothing in the deck.

Set to new#

Set to new asks Set 3 exercises to new? — Their review history and scheduling will be cleared. They will remain selected. The exercises then come back as if they had never been studied — new, with no reviews and no lapses, in their place among the new exercises (the order they were first added in). Use it to start a chapter over after a long break.

Make a follow-up chain of these…#

Make a follow-up chain of these… takes the selected exercises, in the order of the list, as the steps of a new follow-up and opens its form with them already in. A box under the steps — not ticked — offers to take the originals out of the deck once the chain is saved (their study history goes with them). It needs two exercises, and one that needs attention, one that is a follow-up and one that is a side of a linked pair cannot be a step: the button says which, and nothing opens.

Delete#

Delete asks Delete 3 exercises? — Their scheduling will be deleted too. — and Delete selected removes them and their histories for good.

When a selected exercise is one side of a linked pair whose other side is not selected, the question is asked once, for the whole selection: 3 picked exercises are one side of a pair whose other side is not picked, with the other sides listed. Delete their other sides too takes them with the selection; Delete only the selected leaves them, each linked with nothing from then on; Cancel does nothing. Select both sides of a pair, and there is nothing to ask.

Cram#

Cram exercises — which says Cram 3 exercises once three are selected — practises the selection in cram mode: all of it, in random order, with no effect on the schedule.

Export to HTML#

Export selected to HTML, beside it, makes the selection one HTML page that crams it, to put on a website for students who have no Parseh: see Cram mode.

3. Working by tag#

Put together, the tag tools make a deck easy to slice. A deck filled from several lessons, each document tagged with its lesson, can be:

1. studied a lesson at a time in cram mode — Select by tag, lesson-3, Cram;
2. split — make a deck of the same language with + New deck on the decks page, then Select by tag and Move to deck… into it;
3. started over — Select by tag, then Set to new.