Usage

Fetch the meaning

If I would like to know what the meaning of search means in English, I moved the cursor to c under search, and press F4. The meaning will popup up under the word, as shown below. I don’t have to switch to a dictionary app and it won’t break my read-flow.

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Also, as the echo area shows, the full meaning and also the full sentence will be added to the voca-file.

Here is a real example when I was reading an article.

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Export by tags

It is useful when you want to group vocabularies and revise them altogether, for example, all the biology terms. You can do it using voca-builder/extract-by-tags function. For example,

(voca-builder/extract-by-tags "Demo")

will export all the vocabularies that are tagged by “Demo” to ~/voca-builder-temp.org.

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Export by date

You may also want to export all the new vocbaulary you learnt during one particular period, like a semaster, an academic year using voca-builder/extract-period function. For example

(voca-builder/extract-period "2015-01-05" "2015-04-01")

will export all the vocabularies that are recorded between “2015-01-05” and “2014-04-01”.

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Note you can combine these two function together.