In order to split the cartoons into beginner and intermediate volumes, I need a way to classify the relative difficulty of the keywords. How am I going to solve that?
Over in the web system project, I recently talked about deciding to change horses, in terms of the underlying tech I was selecting. And now I think I’m going to do the same thing here.
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For the last six months, I’ve been using the Anki flashcard system to organize (and study) my growing collection of Norwegian noun cartoons, but Anki doesn’t really scale well to the kind of data I’m imagining for the Unforgettable series, so I had already decided to move everything over to a proper database tool. In the interests of being able to continue managing this project on my phone, I had selected MementoDB, which is a great little UI-friendly Android DB app that I’ve used for many other projects. But sadly, after 2 full days of trying to get it to work, I’m pulling the plug. Memento just has too many idiosyncracies, and the documentation is abysmal. Several kind souls on their support forum were really helpful as I tried to get past the obstacles, but I’m a programmer. I want to be able to solve my own problems by looking at the specs - not by dragging other people into the tornado with me. So I’ll continue using memento for the things it does well, but this project is not one of them.
Stay tuned and I’ll update you again once I’ve found a different solution.
