Click word when reading -> reset progress for flashcard

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I searched the forum a bit but couldn’t figure out if this behavior is covered somewhere. It seems to me that when I click on a word while reading a text, that action suggests I don’t know the word well and its SRS progress for flashcards should be reset as if it were new. As it is, sometimes when I’m reading an article, I click on a word but then don’t get quizzed on it anytime soon (which I actually want to be, since I didn’t know it well). The SRS thought I already knew it well, which maybe I did at one point but now it’s been too long. Any way to set this behavior?

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Another, more general / flexible, way to handle this would be if the “actions” available for checked words (in the words tab when reading a text) could include “reset progress”. Then after reading a text, I could simply check all the words and reset their progress.

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Yes, I can imagine using an option that let me reset all progress on all words from one text, let’s say.

Something awkward when reviewing flashcards is when it draws a word I drilled once many months ago. If I feel like I don’t really know the word, I feel incentivized to deliberately answer the question incorrectly so that I don’t go a year without seeing it again. That’s a little odd.

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This is now live, working the way you originally described. Clicking a word you’ve already saved now counts the same as pressing “I forgot” in a flashcard session: the interval resets to 0 and the word comes straight back into the ready-to-test pile, so you’ll be quizzed on it soon rather than in a year. Words you’ve saved but never practised yet are unaffected, since there’s no schedule to reset.

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Hi Steve, how does this work with the auto-highlight “All Your Words” mode [and actually “Ready to Learn” too]? Normally clicking a word to then click “I remembered” is a way to say that actually we did know the word, and avoid a flashcard rep. But if opening the dialog already means “I forgot” then the two things probably don’t cancel out in effect.