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Keep Your Word

Freestyle vocabulary cataloger and flashcards trainer for Mac OS X.

Do you want to learn a new language? Do you want to memorize a long list of medical terms? Do you need to review your collection of flash cards while going to the office?

Keep Your Word lets you build your own dictionary, classifying and grouping the terms exactly how you want to, while helping you to learn a large vocabulary thanks to its different exercise modes.

And now, you can take your dictionaries everywhere using the new iPhone client, Keep Your Word Reader.

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Keep Your Word is designed to…

Let you build your own dictionary.

The basic item that can be added to Keep Your Word is “A Word”.

Keep Your Word supports all the character sets that your Mac supports, so you can write any word in any language supported by your Mac.

Don’t forget to tag your words, and add comments or even images to them. Later, you will understand why…

Organize and classify your words.

You can add new words to the main library, or directly to any of the default categories that Keep Your Word provides you.

Those default categories are “Adjectives”, “Substantives” and “Verbs”, but you can modify, reorder, delete or do whatever you want to them at any time.

Do some hard work for you.

If you do not feel comfortable using a hierarchical organization, just group your word using Smart Groups.

Smart Groups are quite similar to iTunes’ smart lists. You decide what you want to have in a Smart Group (words containing one character, containing one tag, created in a date range, marked as memorized, that appeared in any of the exercise modes at a given time…) and Keep Your Word groups them for you.

Find words quickly.

Never lose track of any of your words again.

Groups and Smart Groups can get very crowded, so use the built-in search field to find what you are looking for. It includes your tags and comments in the results.

Do exercises.

We tried, I swear, but we could not develop an application that could learn for you.

So, to help you learn all the words that you have so carefully added to Keep Your Word, the application provides several “Exercise modes”.

“Flash Cards” is a quick exercise, where you are shown a word in the “other” language, and you have to recognize it. Or, if that’s your style, you can be shown an image.

“Quick Quiz” is, well, a quiz. You are shown a word, and two possible meanings, and have to identify the correct one.

In the “Printed Test” mode, you can print a random list of words, in the “other” language, in “your” language, or in both, so you can do written tests.

You can also print a collection of flash cards, or all that you could need to set up a word-bingo game.

All the “Exercise Modes”, get their content from the category that is selected when you launch them. So, you can do exercises only with the words that you tagged with “food”, or the words that you added to your dictionary in the last week, or…

Images and audio.
	Assign up to two audio files and two images to any word. You can use those images in your flashcards, instead of text, and you can reproduce any audio while browsing the word list, or when studying your flashcards.