This should be a very easy feature to implement. Sometime I am editing text importing. This always creates some fake reading progress. It would be nice to have an option to set status back to “To Read”.
For longer text a more advance option to set progress to a certain part of text could also be considered.
Wow. thank you very much for the quick implementation.
However, I noticed one issue: after the reset, the document reopens, setting the progress at the end of the first page. For shorter articles, this might display nearly 100% completion. Possible solutions could be either closing the article on reset or moving the reset option to the Actions menu.
Yeah, that’s true. I think it should wait a long enough time for you to have read the page before updating the “read to” position. It already does this for the purposes of updating your “words read today” count for the streak. I’ll add this to the backlog.
Seems to be immediate. I tried closing an article immediately after the refresh and it still gets a new progress level. The percentage is lower if I reduce size of the reading window, suggesting that the reset actually happens.
Sorry, I was unclear. I was trying to describe how I think it should ideally behave. I agree that right now it is behaving exactly as you described. I’ve added this improvement to my task backlog (big caveat is that my backlog is huge and feels somewhat like a black hole since there are so many tasks on there!)
It is definitely not the most important thing, just a nice to have. So no pressure.
I love the overall simplicity of Readlang (when compared to LingQ for example) and understand that it comes with some tradeoffs.
That’s a coincidence. I wanted to do this on a bunch of texts yesterday and found the reset option and assumed it had always been there.
Just to echo Don’s comment, I too find it slightly annoying that even after resetting, the progress is set to whatever percentage of the text was visible on screen when it was opened.
Adding the option to the library Action menu seems like a great idea, and would make it much easier to reset multiple texts.
