Feature suggestion

frank
 July 19, 2007, 04:39 AM posted in General Discussion

Normally, when I have an idea for a new feature or tweaks to the site, I shoot an e-mail to Eileen and try to bribe her with chocolate. This time I'm kicking it out there to you folks. Let me know what you think. More importantly, let the folks at ChinesePod know what you think!

My latest hare-brained scheme involves the organization of the lesson pages. Currently, you can organize your lessons by Popularity, Ranking, and Date, and then by Ascending or Descending. What I'd really like to see is an addition to this that would allow us to sort by the date we added it to our list.

Nothing revolutionary here, but its usefulness got driven home when I saw a comment left on a lesson I'd never seen before and I immediately bookmarked it... where it vanished into the hundreds of other lessons I'd bookmarked! GAH!

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John
 July 19, 2007, 05:27 AM

Good point, Frank. Point noted.

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lunetta
 July 19, 2007, 09:35 AM

I think others may have suggested this before but I would love a search feature for the vocabulary. I've only been around for a couple of weeks but it quickly gets difficult finding a specific word. Also it would be nice to be able to tag multiple words with the same tag instead of having to do it one word at a time. Regarding what Frank said; it would be nice to be able to do a search in your bookmarked lessons as well.

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frank
 July 19, 2007, 02:34 PM

Ohhh, tagging multiple words at a time... fantastic concept! As for the vocab search feature, while we wait for ChinesePod to get the vocab search back up, I have found this online tool to be absolutely indispensable.

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lunetta
 July 19, 2007, 03:04 PM

That's a great tool! Thanks for the link.