When I am reviewing words in SRS I frequently find situations where I learn a word very quickly because it’s similar to a word I know, or I find I marked a word that I had known in the past but forgotten it. In cases like this after a few reviews I do not need to keep the word in the review cycle. Currently I’m deleting these words to get them out of the SRS cycle and make space for new words. It would be helpful to have a way to mark them “known” because they are words I’ve interacted with and learned (or at least reviewed).
I can vote for this version of such a suggestion noting that it is solely talking about an SRS control, it’s not about adding a “known words” metric, or a “known y/n?” checkbox to a word’s properties. Which I would not personally vote for.
I’m just wondering what the value of this is over just deleting the word. After all you encountered lots of words when reading which you didn’t tap for a translation which could be considered “known”, but Readlang isn’t trying to track all of that. What benefit do you get by marking these as known instead of just deleting them?
That is a good question–currently I’m deleting them. The only benefit would be for words where I adjust the definition that Readlang provides. But after using Readlang more I agree it’s not a major issue.
To me, this function would certainly be an alternative to deleting words actually known, but it has other uses.
1. If I feel the algorithm is overestimating how often I need to be seeing a given word. Then it’s essentially a boost to the interval to try to fix that.
2. If I think the word is just not very important to know at the moment, sort of like the opposite of Favoriting it.
3. The original post refers to “situations where I learn a word very quickly because it’s similar to a word I know.” Maybe my take on this is not quite what Rossi.Clo meant, but there are times where (for some external reason I probably understand) I feel like my ease in answering the Blitz questions about some word, does not actually reflect how well I know the word, and it would be better to set the word aside for a while to let this “mental state” clear out.