Folders for better organization#39

Hello,
I would really love a feature which would allow me to create something like a folder for verbs, adjectives, etc. the tags are a great idea, but with extra folders organizing large amounts of vocabulary would be easier.
Thank you for creating such a good app and considering your users suggestions :)

This would be a great feature indeed!!!

This is exactly what I would need! I have a lot of vocabulary and tags help, yes, but I would love to sort it in folders by source like “textbook 1”, “textbook 2”, “reading” etc for better overview.

Thanks for sharing your use cases, Juliette, Fabrix, and Lisa.
We will think about how this could be implemented.

Just a short update:
We have now released Wokabulary 6, which was completely re-designed and re-engineered. It still does not include folders, but we took the idea of folders into account while building the app.
With the new app foundation, it will be easier to add new features and folders are definitely something we are looking into now. (Especially since it is such a popular topic here.)

We really, really need folders now, I’m currently using several ‘languages’ to keep my vocabularies managable on the new Wokabulary6, but it really isn’t enough. In a perfect world, all our vocabulary would just be in one place, but tags end up cluttered and overwhelming since they don’t nest and then we have to sift through a sea of tags to test ourselves on specific things and if we’re learning the language from several sources we want to be able to organise it in such a way that a word can be sorted into relevant groups (by lesson, by a chapter, word types, etc) without ending up in a sea of tags. This is especially important for formal language learners using specific sources and a curriculum or syllabus where we want to be able to test ourselves on a lesson or a term or a word type or a certain chapter of one of many textbooks, it becomes such a headache with the tag system. Having 50 tags on the go isn’t an achievement, it’s an unfortunate necessity that should be avoidable.

What Olive Potts has written should have been “THE” priority in the develpment of Wokabulary 6 but such requests still remain unheard.

Thank you for explaing your use cases!
And, of course we hear you!

The spaced repetition system and the use of tags are the core elements of Wokabulary.
We chose the organising of words with tags over organising them with folders, as each word has more than one characteristic (relating to the toopic, to word type etc.)

For Wokabulary 6, we added the tag overview with the possibility to click on each tag to see the corresponding words.

While we got positive feedback, I see, that for some of you it is not sufficient. And especially the wish to use folders as a structure that follows a text book would be helpful. And also the possibility of “nesting”.
(Please add other needs besides these two if they are not covered).

So, I can assure you, we working on a good way how folders can be added to the current word organisation and filtering.

All the best,
Anna

I am so glad this is finally planned after all this time. Is there any information on when this might become usable? I won’t subscribe to 6 without this feature as it is still necessary for me to be able to use a vocabulary on my scale.

It’s not that tags being at the core of the system was ever a bad thing, but the fact that tags themselves weren’t organisable in any way and therefore would end up overwhelming the filtering interface could have been solved by allowing us to nest tags (ie, by word types, lessons/chapters in book, classes on a course, without ending up in a tag cluttered hell, which folders, for words or tags, separate lists… whatever you want to call it, I have never been able to use the app worh a vocabulary larger than 800 words comfortably (even that was pushing it). There was never a reason to withhold this sort of feature, we always understood Wokabulary was intended to be used as one large list for all words but you understand the importance of being able to divide these up for revision and testing, hence the inclusion of tags, the reluctance to just improve this system to enable users with larger vocabularies (ie, the users using the app the most) was a real setback in this being useable for my dual language degree.

ggg

Olive Potts, you are so right!

Folders for better organization have been a priority for some serious users for years (maybe not enough from the developer’s viewpoint…a shame).

I used Wokabulary 5 (macOS and iOS) for many years and I ended up using another platform. I won’t subscribe to Wokabulary 6.

I have to be honest: I’m very disappointed with how Wokabulary has become a mere flash card app. There has never been any interest on the part of the developers to make it a professional application, perhaps due to a lack of feedback or maybe just because they wanted things to go that way.

You are so right: people with LARGE vocabularies are lost. They would better find an alternative or they’d better create a spreadsheet/database file (you can find many templates for free online).

No offense, but Wokabulary is still an embryo of a vocabulary builder after so many years.

My best wishes.

@Anna
@Gabriel
Unfortunately I am in the same boat as Fabrixdelo and Olive Potts and I will have to cancel my annual subscription for the folder organisation reason. I will need to find better platform that offer useful features for people with big vocabulary data.