Thanks for the suggestion, I've updated the docs. (The current solution with adding a tag is actually more because of laziness than because of cleverness :-) )
Cheers, Peter On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM leinad....@gmail.com <leinad.schm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 mnemosyne-proj-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/fc2b936f-4ed1-42ed-a062-75062e6cecf7n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 mnemosyne-proj-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/CAMdxoPHiMOYJQcvK364XwEs9v%3DqVEDyVf1TdiOgOM7Z_5myUeg%40mail.gmail.com.
