When you want to see all sorts of useful information about a given word, where do you go? The word popup of course! Click a word in a list or press the magnifying glass icon while studying, and you'll get a big popup with everything there is to know about the word. Because of its importance and how many things we've added to it recently (and wanted to add), we decided the list system overhaul would be a good time to redesign it from the ground up.The main changes are visual. There are now three main parts to it: the core information, the study status, and related words and characters.
You'll find things like the reading and the definition in the core information, as well as study aids such as your chosen example sentence and mnemonic. Things you can edit are marked with a pencil icon, which you can click to make changes. Other bits of information, such as how difficult/rare the word is and for Chinese, what traditional or simplified versions are related to it, are all there as well.
In the study status area you'll find all the information relating to your learning, such as what parts you're studying and when they're due and how well you know them. This is also where you'll see what lists the words have been added from, and where you can edit the ban settings on a individual part basis.
And finally the column on the right side of the popup is where you'll find all sorts of words and characters that are related to the one you're looking at. For a word, you're just shown the individual characters it contains, but characters show a great deal of information, such as the decomposition and lists of words and characters that contain the character. And with the new setup, you can view the complete list for each, not just the first four words as was the case in the old version.
The word popup has also been refitted with everything you need for the new list system. As mentioned before, there's the new ban button, and there are also new quick add buttons to replace the ones that used to add words directly to your queue. These give you all the information and control you need to expand your studies just the way you like.
Coming up next: editing lists and automatic updates.
