The “star” system for pictures, videos, music files, emails, and so on is well established in the digital world, and we use it completely intuitively: you click a star icon and then filter by that star. In the Mnemosyne Android app, however, there is no star icon—only a button labeled “Star Card,” and all it actually does is add the tag “Starred.” I honestly find this solution pretty clever, minimalist, and logical, but unfortunately not intuitive at all. When I search for “star” in the card browser, nothing shows up, and because I already use lots of tags, I never would have guessed that a new tag called “Starred” had appeared. I couldn’t find a single word about this in the documentation either. Only after asking an LLM did I learn what “Star Card” does, and then I thought: why didn’t I figure that out myself?
It dawned on me that my brain has hard-wired the star system to the appearance of a visible star I can filter by—just like in browsers or file managers where you mark favorites. That’s why the mental leap to a tag-based solution didn’t happen. Because this isn’t mentioned in the documentation, I’m writing this post to ask that the behavior of the “Star Card” button (i.e. it simply adds the tag “Starred,” after which you can filter in the card browser by selecting it in the tag tree) be added to the main documentation on the website. It would save newcomers—and apparently experienced users like me—a lot of head-scratching. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/fc2b936f-4ed1-42ed-a062-75062e6cecf7n%40googlegroups.com.
