Granule User's Manual

Vladislav Grinchenko

First Edition Aug 10 2004

Second Edition Jul 9 2005

This document explains how to get the best out of granule flash card application.


Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Getting Started
1.1. Application Requirements And Installation
1.2. To Start Granule
1.3. To Exit Granule
2. Usage (Short-Term Memory)
2.1. Short-term Memory
2.2. To Create A New Deck
2.3. To Save New Deck
2.4. To Load A Deck
2.5. To Add One Deck to Another
2.6. To Import Words from Comma Separated Value (CSV) File
2.7. To Weed Out Card Duplicates
2.8. To Find And Collect New Words
3. Usage (Long-Term Memory)
3.1. Long-Term Memory And Leitner Cardbox System
4. Configuration
4.1. General Preferences
4.2. Scheduling Preferences
4.3. Sound Preferences
4.4. Geometry Preferences
4.5. Configuration File
5. File Formats And Conversions
5.1. File Formats
5.2. To Import Flashcards From Other Formats
List of Tables
2-1. DeckPlayer's Play Mode Keyboard Bindings
3-1. Expiration legend
3-2. DeckPlayer's CardBox Study Mode Keyboard Bindings
List of Figures
1-1. Main Window Dialog
1-2. Exit Granule
2-1. New Deck in Main Window Dialog
2-2. New Deck in DeckPlayer Dialog
2-3. New Deck in DeckView Dialog
2-4. New Card in CardView Dialog
2-5. Filled CardView Dialog
2-6. DeckView Dialog
2-7. DeckPlayer (front) Dialog
2-8. DeckPlayer (back) Dialog
2-9. The Answer Validation Entry
2-10. Play controls
2-11. Side control
2-12. Shuffle the Cards
2-13. FileChooser Dialog
2-14. MainWindow Dialog (Deck menu)
2-15. Open Deck Dialog
2-16. Insert One Deck Into Another
2-17. Select Import from CSV Menu
2-18. CSV Text Import Dialog
2-19. Remove Duplicate Cards
2-20. Remove Duplicate Cards
2-21. Find And Save New Words.
3-1. Card Box with 5 partitions
3-2. Card Box's Partition
3-3. Dynamic links between a Card Box and Decks
3-4. Creating New CardFile
3-5. Add a Deck to CardBox's partition
3-6.
3-7.
3-8. DeckPlayer in Study Mode
3-9. Study Mode Controls
3-10. Leitner Learning Strategy
4-1. General Preferences
4-2. Scheduling Preferences
4-3. Sound Preferences
4-4. Geometry Preferences
5-1. An Example of CSV Input File