Jalup App – Button Customization Features
I get a lot of requests for small features for the Jalup app. I’m always listening, keeping track of ideas, and figuring out long term how I can work them into the app. One issue I face is that too many small features can lead to feature creep and overwhelming settings and configurations. So I’m always working to figure out a way to not overload the app but at the same time allow for a lot of versatility.
One helpful user recently requested a way to hide the due date while reviewing cards. Something I never thought would even bother people. I sought out to see if I could combine this with a other small requests I’ve received over the past months. After a bunch of brainstorming followed by a bunch of coding, I’ve finally come up with “Button Customization,” which is now available on both Android (1.2.0) and iOS (1.4.0) versions.
Here’s how it works
*Screenshots are from the iOS version, but it looks and works exactly the same on the Android version*
From the Settings menu, you can now change what is displayed on your Learn, Flip, Incorrect and Correct buttons:
Learn has a Nothing, Timer and Goal Countdown option:
Flip, Incorrect, and Correct have a Nothing, Timer, Goal Countdown, Due Date, and Cards Remaining option.
Ex. Setting a goal countdown of 30 new cards to learn:
Ex. Setting a 5 minute timer for every Learn session:
Ex. Setting the next due date on the Flip Button for a Review session:
Ex. In a Review session, setting the cards remaining (693!) on the Incorrect button, and a 20 minute timer on the Correct button:
Ex. In a Review session, setting 2 separate timers (10-minute and 20-minute) on the Incorrect and Correct buttons:
Maximum flexibility with your studying
The goal with this new feature is to allow for all different creative ways of studying. Maybe you want 3 separate study timers or 3 different card goals while you are reviewing. Or if you want the cleanest possible option, you can set everything to Nothing. There is a lot to play with here. In the future, I may add additional button functionality options. As always, I’m happy to hear suggestions.
I hope you enjoy it!
Founder of Jalup. iOS Software Engineer. Former attorney, translator, and interpreter. Still watching 月曜から夜ふかし weekly since 2013.
Cool update which I’m already putting to good use. I particularly like the remaining cards + timer combo for both reviewing and learning new cards *thumbs up*
Nice. I’m happy to hear people are making good use of it :)
Wrong email on the first post haha.
Is syncing on the list? That’ll be the biggest feature I can think of. Downloading and backing up the CSV files is a bit cumbersome.
The other very useful feature is an “Undo” button.
The third is a way of unfreezing currently frozen cards. On Android at least I couldn’t find a way to unfreeze cards that I had mistakenly frozen. I had to restore from the CSV file.
I don’t really have an answer on syncing just yet, but for the other two:
1. Undo button – yes, this is coming soon.
2. You unfreeze cards from search. Do a search of frozen cards (from the search page), tap on a card, and then unfreeze it.
It’d be nice to see the number of cards still left to review, from inside review mode.
Not sure what you mean. That option is available under “Cards Remaining”
I have sent you a mail about cards remaining, and another issue.