If you read novels, comics or textbooks in a language you are still learning, you follow most of it and guess the rest. The words you trip over are gone by the next chapter, because stopping to write each one down would end the reading. MindDory takes a photo of the page instead, offers the words worth keeping, and gives them back to you later, so you can carry on reading.
Because looking a word up and learning it are different acts, and reading only makes room for the first one. You meet a word, you get the gist, you keep going. By the time it appears again forty pages later, it is unfamiliar again and you look it up again.
The usual fix is a notebook or a deck, and the usual outcome is that it lasts about a week. Not for lack of discipline. Writing a card takes longer than reading the sentence it came from, so the price of keeping a word is paid in the thing you actually wanted to do.
It moves the work off the page you are on. You photograph the page, MindDory reads the text and offers the words that look worth learning at your level, and you untick the ones you already know. Nothing gets typed. You put the phone down and read on.
The words then come back on a spacing you do not have to set. You say whether a word was a fail, hard, or easy, and that is the whole of your input: a hard word comes back in three days, an easy one in a week, and the second time you call it easy it stops asking. The Scan-to-Cards page has the rest of the mechanics.
No, and it is better to say so plainly. One page at a time is the unit in every mode, there is no way to point MindDory at a book and walk away, and uploading the book as a PDF is not a way around that: a PDF is read five pages deep at most, only the first 500 words of that are used, and there is no way to ask for what comes after. One upload is worth about a page or two however long the file is.
What a novel looks like in practice is photographing the pages that are worth it. A free account gets one scan a day, which is not a reading pace. Premium allows 200 photo scans a month, roughly six or seven pages a day, inside an overall ceiling of 500 imports a month across everything.
And not every page is worth it. The ones that repay a scan are the pages where you met several words at once and would otherwise have picked two and let the rest go.
Six, and one of them is much better than the other five. Scanning works for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Czech. A page in any other language is refused, so if you are reading a Portuguese or Japanese novel this is not the tool for it yet.
English is the one that is fully built. MindDory knows a CEFR level for most of its English dictionary, so it can set aside words far below your level and offer the ones near your edge first.
In other languages it recognises fewer words, and a word it cannot judge is offered rather than dropped. So a page of a Spanish or French novel gives you a longer list to untick, not a shorter one. That is the trade, and it is the same trade in reverse: a word you do not need costs one tap, and a word you never see costs you the reason you took the photo.
Same thing. A page is whatever you are looking at: a printed page, a screenshot, a page of a textbook, slides. Reading a paperback is the case this was built for, but nothing about it is specific to paper.
For a single word met in a chat or a browser tab, typing it in is quicker. Scanning is for the page, not the word.
Photograph the page instead of copying words out. MindDory reads the text, offers the words worth learning at your level, and turns the ones you keep into cards that come back before you forget them. You do not stop reading to do it.
No. Reading works because you keep moving and take meaning from context. The problem is not that you skip words, it is that the ones you did look up disappear too. Capturing the page lets you keep them without stopping.
Yes, and that is the case it was built for. A printed page, a printout and a screen all work the same way.
One scan a day on a free account, which is not a reading pace. Premium allows 200 photo scans a month, about six or seven pages a day, inside an overall ceiling of 500 imports a month across everything.
You can upload a PDF, but one upload is worth about a page or two of text however long the file is: it is read five pages deep at most, only the first 500 words of that are used, and there is no way to ask for what comes after. For a book the unit is a page at a time, photographed as you read.
Yes, and Czech too. Those five plus English are the languages a page can be scanned in; anything else is refused. Word selection is fully built for English only, so in the other five MindDory recognises fewer words and offers a word it cannot judge rather than dropping it, which means a longer list to untick.
High enough that you can follow the page and only trip over some of it. MindDory is for the words at your edge. If nearly every word is unfamiliar, an easier text will teach you more than any tool will.