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A question for people who use lists. We've added the following behavior[1] to the lists a couple of months ago:
"The interface now remembers the most recent list to which you assigned a sentence and sets that as the default when you want to assign another sentence to a list."
Has anyone found this useful? Or on the contrary, has anyone found this unpractical?
I would like to know if it will affect anyone if we revert this, that is: the first list would be the one that is always selected.
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[1] http://blog.tatoeba.org/2014/08...st-2-2014.html
I find it extremely useful, which is why I implemented it. It used to drive me crazy, especially when working on a tablet, to have to scroll through the list of lists to find the one I want.
Here's a common workflow for me: as I go through Hebrew sentences, I find ones that I want to study and save them to a list. When that list reaches 100 sentences (the maximum that can be downloaded), I start a new list. I've done this five times. I want to save the lists I've created, which collect at the top of my list of lists, so the first list is guaranteed to be one that I don't want to assign sentences to at the moment.
Note that if, for instance, you had individual lists, and were in a phase where you wanted to always add sentences to a collaborative list, you would be in the same situation of always having to choose a new list.
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An alternative to reverting the change would be to control this behavior with a setting accessible from the options. I would vote for that (and implement it), since the renaming trick won't work for everybody. For instance, a collaborative list will never appear in first position (for anyone who has at least one individual list), regardless of its name. People who always submit to a (genuine) collaborative list will thus always have to do extra work unless they have the option of remembering the last list used.
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That makes sense. I'll look into it.
Just a quick note: the behavior has been reverted. The last selected list is no more remembered.
For those who prefer the last list to be remembered, you have an option for that in the settings.