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It is a bit early to even have an alpha version of Keep Your Word 1.3, but the development process is moving onwards. Right now, 12 tickets (all of them new features) have been marked as “code completed”.

Right now, the new interface is still a bit messy, but here you can see some of the new features.

First, the insertion date of the words can be showed or hidden. That lets you sort the words list by that date.

Words have many new properties. For instance, they can be marked as learnt, they can be assigned two different images, and they can be assigned a numerical value from 0 to 5, that could be used as a “difficulty” measure, for instance.

Also, everytime a word is used in any of the exercise modes, the date is recorded. Which leads to the next new set of features: smart groups.

The list of properties that can be used to declare a smart group includes all the new values, so, for instance, one could be able to create a smart group with all the words that are not marked as learnt, that have not been in any of the exercise modes in the last two weeks, that are tagged with “food”, and that were assigned to the folder “Substantives”.

So, there is still a lot of work and there are a lot of refinements to do, sure, but Keep Your Word 1.3 is starting to be close.

FNDMobile 1.0.1 has just been cleared by the gods of the App Store. It fixes one crash, that makes me deeply ashamed, but does not add any more features.

Steve Frank writes about how a bug can be effectively reported.

I am glad that the few bugs reported in Keep Your Word where reported in a way that were easy and quick to reproduce, and so, easier and quicker to fix.

Believe me, if there is something wrong with any of our apps, we want to fix it.