Smartphones can handle quite a lot, power wise, but because space is limited, if an app is very powerful you can't have menus for everything without making it look cluttered and difficult to use. The solution is to use gestures to provide multiple functions from each selection, button, or view. That is what And Bible does.
Gestures are what you do with your fingers on the screen. Most folks understand tapping (or clicking) an icon or button and using the back or home button. But there are other gestures that can apply to a button, section of the screen, or whole screen. Following are the most common gestures.
You can see all of these in use on the And Bible main screen. This is a preliminary catalog of gestures that apply to different items.
A few gestures apply to the device screen in general.
When multiple documents are loaded there are document icons at the bottom right of the screen. Tapping will restore that document/window if minimized or minimize it if already displaying. See Document icons later.
When a window is active you can tap and move up or down to scroll through the document.
When a window displays the text of a Bible a number of gestures are available to speed the navigation.
When a window displays a commentary, the text covered is displayed at the top. Usually, the commentary refers to the synchronized Bible verse, though it could refers to a section of multiple verses. The gestures vary from the Bible text windows but they are intuitive.
Note on synchronization: When the Bible window is synchronized with a commentary, when you navigate with one window the other window goes to the matching verse.
The controls and icons at the top of the screen are generally intuitive. They change the verse, the Bible version, or the commentary for the active window, but there are other gestures you can use for them.
The most common use of this element is to Tap to select a new passage if a Bible is displayed, or section for other documents. This is how you select different maps if you are looking at an atlas. There are three other gestures you can use on this element.
When some Bible versions are shown, Greek or Hebrew letters make up the next "icon". This refers to the Greek and Hebrew words in Strong's Concordance that are represented by the text. Tapping, the most common gesture will rotate between showing strong references as an underline, showing strong references as numbers, or not displaying either.
Alternately, you can long press on the icon to show a menu to select the mode you want.
The Bible icon lets you select a different version of the Bible from a dialog menu that uses abbreviations. Alternately you can long press to select a Bible document from the document screen with more information about that version.
Like the Bible icon, the Commentary icon lets you select a different commentary from the menu. Long press to select a commentary document from the document screen with more details.
The three vertical dots at the top right is commonly called the Options menu. That is where you select a variety of options, including formatting that apply to the all windows. (Actually, if a particular window overrides the option, it is ignored). The only gesture is a click.
The window menu is a faint button icon at the top right of each active window. It has options to maximize, minimize, close, pin, or synchronize that window. This menu also allows you to override the main program settings for formatting. While you can tap to select options, there are other gestures you can use here.
After you maximize the window there is an icon at the bottom right corner that lets you restore it to the original size.
I call the icons for each window document at the bottom document icons, though technically they may be window icons. You may remember that windows are either pinned, unpinned, or special windows. Pinned windows are shown independently and you can view as many as you want. Unpinned windows share a visible window so only one is visible at a time. They are grouped together and displaying one minimizes the currently active window.
If you know of other gestures that may be useful let me know and share it. Yes there are other gestures that can be used in other sections of the app; this only covers the main screen.
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A bookmark in And Bible doesn't really bookmark your place in the text, as a physical bookmark would. It might be better described as a label assigned to a verse. The best indicator of this bookmark is the highlighting or underlining of the text. So, let's make a bookmark and see what else you can do with it.
Select a verse in the Bible window like Luke 1:13. Tap on the verse and notice that a popup window is shown with several options.
For a simple bookmark, tap on the first icon. When you do the bookmark is created and displayed in the background. The foreground dialog box now gives you an opportunity to edit the label assigned to this bookmark or select a new one.
Tap on Select or edit labels and check the box next to Blue. This changes the selected label and assigns the new label's color. When you close both dialog boxes you now see is that verse highlighted in blue, the color of the label.
Many years ago I used to color code my bible with highlighter based on topics or word studies. Bibles have also been published that color code different concepts in this way. That's one thing you can use bookmarks for. But the label Blue doesn't really mean anything, so let's change that.
In the top right options menu (three vertical dots), select label settings. Click on Blue and change the text at the top from Blue to John the Baptist. Go back to the passage and tap on the verse and notice the label change.
Now go to verse 57 and tap on that verse. Only this time press the (+) button and notice that the next verse is also selected. Then tap on verses 59 and 60 so that all four verses are now shown with a gray background. Now select the bookmark icon. This time you can select the John the Baptist button. When you close the dialog boxes you will see all of the verses highlighted in the label's color.
To see what you have marked in this chapter you can select the commentary icon at the top and select My Notes and see the verses you have bookmarked/labeled in this chapter. Only the first line of the passage is shown, but if you tap on it the passage will expand to show the rest of the verse.
Now skip over to Luke 3:1 and select the first two verses, but instead of tapping the bookmark icon select the Note icon. Tap on the label and select the John the Baptist label and then enter some text like "This is when John the Baptist first starting preaching".
At this point you should notice that there is a note icon at the end of the passage just marked there. Click that and you will see the text you just added.
Notice that the note screen has a number of formatting options which will not be discussed here. Most are intuitive. The last option with the cross is a hyperlink button. Use that to enter a verse reference that will open the verse when clicked.
You can see the verses with My Notes for this chapter also. If you want to see all verses labeled as John the Baptist you can go to the main menu and select Study Pads and the label John the Baptist. Each label is associated with a Study Pad which provides additional features but that will need to be discussed later as well.
Now that you have the basics, go back and click one of the bookmarks. There are several options available from the dialog.
Beginning in the top row.
While you use this icon initially to create the first bookmark you can click it again and add another bookmark using a different label. Each one will be displayed with its designated color.
Just as you've added the first note, you can add notes to new bookmarks. The notes will be displayed with the associated bookmark.
The My Notes icon is another way to display the My Notes window with your bookmarks and notes for the chapter.
The share button enables options to share the verse. The share options may vary depending on your device and apps installed. This can also be used to Copy the text to the clipboard
The verse and label is displayed in the middle section and it has its own options.
The information icon shows the bookmarked verse(s), displays options to edit, share, delete, or Open in My Notes, and gives details about when the bookmark was created and updated.
The expand button contracts or expands the dialog box if there are other bookmarks associated with the verse.
In the title bar there are other options. You may remember the gray circled + is how you expanded the selection. The four arrow icon next to it will expand or condense the display. The ? provides help, and a link to a short tutorial about bookmarking. Close the bookmark with the gray X.
]]>This is a demonstration of the process using my tastes as a guide. Before you get started you will need to do a little setup. If you want to follow along without messing with your existing windows, documents, etc. you can simply create a new workspace and use that for this exercise.
When And Bible first opens, or when a new workspace is created there is a single window. Presently if you only have one window and create a new window And Bible uses the existing window formatting to create the new window. What I am doing is modifying the main window while leaving the added window much like the default. In order to preserve the standard formatting for the second window, the first thing you need to do is create a new window. Ideally the second window would be for supplemental reading, i.e. commentaries, so you may want to select a commentary for this window.
Secondly, since we're going to select a font that is not normally installed, go to Download Documents. Select Add-ons as the type, and download FontPack. With two windows showing select the top window.
The third thing I would do for this exercise is turn off bookmarks. Do this by going to the three dot vertical menu, select All text options, and untick Show bookmarks near the bottom.
Be careful to select the correct menu for All text options. The menu from the top will apply changes to all windows. Each window has a faint icon in the top right corner. Changes from that menu will apply changes to only that window.
Before changing individual windows you can change the defaults for each window in this workspace. For now, the only thing I'm changing is the line-spacing. Also under All text options, select line spacing and lower it to 1.4x. Obviously you would want to make other changes here to where the text is readable to you. If the text is too faint you may want to change to "sans serif medium" or "sans serif black".
As a graphic designer I've always been told that a serif font is much easier to read for long text. Since I want it to look like I'm reading a physical Bible I want to make it really easy to read, so I'll use a larger font size.
Within the top window there is a faint icon at the top right corner which contains the window menu. Select that and the "All text options" and make the following changes
Now, to limit some of the glare from white pages, we can change the background to something with a little color. A very light tan will work for that. Under the window All text options, select Color settings, and tap on the Background color swatch. Select the gold swatch, then select the first swatch at the bottom for a subtle change in color.
Since the passage is the focus of our study, I tend to expand it to take most of the window. Simply drag on the dividing line to adjust the size of each window.
Admire your work so far.
We could stop here but there is another window we can format to make our study more consistent. In the commentary window find a verse reference (in blue) and tap on that. This opens a special window. Since it is another passage, I find it helpful to set that window to One verse per line as well.
Now And Bible looks like this:
Everybody's taste is different, but now that you know how to design your windows, make all the changes you want. If you want more windows remember that the new window icon creates new windows based on the selected window.
Once you are finished, you can use the workspace as a template for other workspaces. Simply select the Workspaces... from the main menu, then tap on the three vertical dots, and select Copy as new. Name the new workspace and save changes
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When you first install And Bible you are prompted to download documents to use with it. If you have already installed it and started it, you won't see this again. If you really want to see it you can uninstall and then install again. This is the first use view of And Bible.
If you are concerned about available phone space you can select Download Documents and select a single Bible resource. Otherwise select Easy Start to download a recommended set of documents. You can always go back to the menu and download other documents. The documents include Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, maps, and other documents. This screenshot shows the list of documents installed into And Bible.
Pressing the back key you may see a dialog about the latest features. For now press Dismiss and you will see the Bible displayed starting at John 3:16.
Note: If you have been using this app before, there may already be things on your screen. You can create a new workspace to use with this tutorial by using the options menu (three dots), Workspaces, (+) for new workspace, name it and then follow along. To get back to your original workspace, select it from the Workspaces menu.
As you are probably aware, navigating a cell phone apps depends on how you use your fingers. To avoid unpleasant surprises, learning what happens when and how you touch or swipe is important. Many of these gestures are intuitive. The rest need to be made intuitive to get the most from this app.
With John 3:16 displayed here you can scroll throughout the selected book of the Bible. These are gestures that you can use if you are reading a version of the Bible. Some of these gestures will not work on other document types. We'll look at the options in dialog boxes later.
So now look at the rest of the screen. The top left has the three line (sandwich) menu. Next to that is the verse selection dialog. The headphone icon next to it will enable the device to read the text to you. The next icon with the Greek letters enables the display of links to Greek and Hebrew words.
The Bible icon allows you to select an alternate Bible version. When it is first installed it may only have two versions and if a Bible is displayed pressing the icon switches between them.
The icon with the books is where you select a commentary to display.
Finally the three dots at the top right is where you select options and change some of the settings for the app.
Do the following as an exercise to get accustomed to the icons.
You notice the window changes each time. Of course you won't want to continually switch back and forth. You may want a separate window for commentaries or other documents.
At the bottom right corner of the screen is the primary new window button. Press that and notice that the screen is divided into two windows and the selected document is displayed in both windows. Only one of the windows is active at a time and the icon for that window will be highlighted to indicate that. Now with the bottom window selected, select a commentary. The commentary for that verse or section will then be showing in the bottom window.
By default, windows are usually synchronized, so as you scroll through the text the commentary follows. Also, note that when two or more windows are displayed there are associated icons at the bottom right of the screen, each representing a window and document. Later you will see how the icons can be used to rotate between different documents (versions, commentaries) in the same window. In that case the icons will be grouped together, but before we get into that let's look at some special windows.
With two windows on screen you should also notice the faint icon to the top right of the window. That is the options menu for that window. Select that, then select All text options, and next to Footnotes and x-refs, click to enable and go back. Depending on the Bible version selected you may now see number or capital letter superscripts within the text. These are links to footnotes and cross references for the version.
When you tap on one of these letters a dialog box is displayed with additional information.
Footnotes explain something about the text while cross references shows related passages. If you tap on a verse shown in the dialog box, the verse(s) will be shown in a separate window. That window has an associated icon as well. Each time you select a different cross reference that window is updated.
The cross reference window can also be activated with verses displayed in commentaries. In fact, the commentary TSK is all cross references.
While commentaries often provide cross references, occasionally their references are meant to show its comments on a particular topic. RWP (Robertson's Word Pictures) uses this occasionally by writing "See on x.xx". In order for that to work as intended you will need to take another step.
To see this you need to first download and select the RWP commentary. Then go to John 3:2. RWP writes in the third paragraph on the term Rabbi, See on 1:38. There you would tap on the reference and see the verse. To see what the commentary says about that verse, select the RWP commentary for that window. Scroll down and see what RWP says about the term Rabbi.
Before we go any further, you should learn how to manage windows. Each window has a window menu in a faint icon at the top right of the window. This is how to set options for the window only. The Pin option can be confusing. In this app, the pin indicates that the window will stay open when you open a new window. The new window will open next to it. You can show or minimize either one by tapping on its icon.
If you uncheck the Pin for a window that document will be minimized when you create a new window. Several documents can be displayed by that window, but only one at a time.
In this illustration there are two pinned windows and an unpinned window with three associated documents.
You can show or minimize either of the first two, or both, by tapping on the icon. In the last three, you can only display one of these at a time by tapping on its icon. If you want to get rid of a document associated with a window, simply select the window icon and tap Close.
Note: Cross references are displayed in special windows, and their menu does not have a pin option, though you can change it to a normal window. When you do, it will join either the pinned windows group or the unpinned windows.
If you want to duplicate the image above for practice, follow these steps
See more about managing windows in my post And Bible Commentary Study
]]>This is the method I use to quickly navigate the passages and commentaries while also limiting the amount of screen space I need to use. This assumes you have already downloaded some versions of the Bible and some commentaries. If you haven't done that yet, head to the sandwich menu (three lines) and Download Documents. Select the type from the dropdown on the right. I recommend the NASB, YLT, and NET versions of the Bible; and the Gill, TSK and RWP commentaries. Then go back to the main screen to continue. Follow these steps to get a feel for how it works.
1. Select and show the passage from the Bible. (Philippians 4:1)
At this point all you should see is the top menu, the passage, and an icon at the bottom right that is used to create new windows.
2. Create a new window (using icon at bottom right)
At this point there will be two more icons at the bottom of the screen, one for each window. You may not notice it but there is also a faint icon at the top of each window. When both windows are shown you will notice that they have the same content displayed.
Trouble tips: Depending on how you have used And Bible before there may be two windows separated by a line. If there is only one full screen window showing, select that faint icon at the top right and check the box for Pin. If by some chance there is still only one window, tap on the second icon at the bottom. If you play with it you will notice that tapping the icons shows/hides that window. (Technically the term for hiding is minimize.) Similarly, in version 4.0 or later, if you tap on a Bible window that is already active a popup will be shown. That's for another feature discussion so just tap the X to close it.
3. Tap on the bottom window to select it. The second icon will be lit up.
4. Now select a commentary from the book icon at the top.
This shows the Bible text in the top window with the commentary in the bottom window. By default the commentary is synchronized with the passage, so if you select the Bible and move around, the commentary shows the comments for that verse. If you select the commentary you can scroll through the comments.
That faint icon at the top right of each window has options for that particular window. One of those options is the synchronization just mentioned. Notice that you can also create new windows here too and set a few other options. At this point the bottom of the screen has two icons next to each other. Left is text, right is commentary, and the new window icon in the corner. Notice that the icons have the abbreviation for the commentary it is linked to. Whichever icon is highlighted is the active window. Tap in the window you want to select. While you can tap on the icon for that window to select it that is not necessary yet. The icons will be more important when using multiple commentaries.
When a window is active you can change the Bible version or commentary by selecting a different one from the appropriate icon at the top. For familiarity select the top window and choose a different Bible version, then select the bottom window and choose a different commentary.
When studying a passage I like to consult several different commentaries as I work through the passage. Rather than continually selecting the other commentaries from the list, I find it easier to use the buttons to select different versions from preset windows. Continuing from the previous setup
1 Tap to select the commentary window.
2 From the icon at the top right of this window, unselect Pin.
3 Select New Window
4 Select a different commentary from the top.
There is still only two windows but another icon is added to the bottom of the screen and the second window shows the other commentary. The first icon (Bible passage) is slighted separated from the next two icons. The two commentaries share that second window. With this setup you can switch between commentaries by tapping the appropriate icon at the bottom. At this point the screen looks like this.
Things to keep in mind: Tap in whichever window you need to work with. That makes it the active window. Tap on the icon for that window to show/hide the window. Remember, tapping a highlighted icon hides the window but if you tap it, simply tap it again to restore the window.
In order to add more commentaries to this selection area,
1 Select the commentary window
2 Select New Window
3 Select the commentary to display.
If you want to use a different commentary without adding one, you can select in from the top.
As you work with the text, you may find that a third window can be shown. Following are a couple of examples of that.
Verse references simply display cross-references for a particular verse.
1. Go to Philippians 4:8 in the passage window.
The commentary window synchronizes and shows the verse comments as seen above.
2. Select the window and choose the TSK commentary from the library icon.
3. Tap on one of the verses listed in blue text and underlined.
A third window is displayed with the verse. If you select a different verse it is displayed in that window. Again, notice that a new icon is added at the bottom separated from the two commentary icons. It represents a different window that is not synchronized with the text. Tap on the icon and the window is hidden. Tap again and it is shown again. It also has a faint icon from which you can close the window and icon permanently, though it will probably be helpful later.
Commentary references are similar except that the commentary may be showing them to refer you to what they wrote about a concept elsewhere.
1. Select the commentary window and choose the RWP commentary
If one of the buttons is linked to the RWP commentary you can use that. If not, select the commentary from the library icon. When on Philippians 4:8, the first line in the commentary includes "See on 3:1" with the verse in blue type.
2. Tap on the reference
This shows the text for that verse. It's obvious that the commentary wants you to see the note for that verse, not the verse itself.
3. With the last window active, select the RWP commentary from the library icon.
That shows the commentary section for 3:1 which includes an explanation of the Greek term used in Philippians 4:8. Once I've read that I hide the window by tapping on the icon, until I need to see another reference.
Lately I have been studying passages with six different commentaries that I go through for each verse. You can get six commentaries by 1. selecting the commentary window and 2. adding new windows until you have six. You can then select the commentaries for each window icon.
Select the first icon, select the Abbott commentary from the top; the second icon and select Barnes commentary from the top; etc. until you have selected the ones you want to use.
Now I go to a verse in the passage window, then select the first commentary icon and read that, the next icon and read that, etc. Then go to the next verse.
P.S. While I refer to the top window as the passage window and the bottom as the commentary please understand that this only how I use them. Any window can display any type of content.
This post just deals with managing a few windows. And Bible has many other features that you will likely stumble upon even as you go through this tutorial.
]]>I've heard 2 Chronicles 7:14 repeated many times over the last 10-20 years and the message that is that we should PRAY. Prayer is very important part of the Christian's life. Jesus spent many hours away in prayer to God. He needed to spend time with his father. As children of God WE need to pray. But this verse says so much more.
The setting for this statement was in Israel in a time of their rebellion. It was a promise from God that was meant for the Jewish nation. It doesn't talk specifically about other nations, or even the church, but most would agree that the principle likely applies to any people that names the name of God. Even so, there is so much more we need to notice about this statement from God.
In the United States we are faced with the oppressive rule of socialist Marxists that are pushing an immoral agenda, a society that focuses on pleasure and wealth, and a church that too often cowls to the influence of a humanistic world view. The message in Chronicles is not one to all of the people in our nation. It is specifically to His people. It is when His people are in rebellion that God is often most vehement.
Looking closer at the passage notice that His first demand is that we humble ourselves. We may proudly demand justice in the political arena with appeals for the preservation of the freedoms our nation was founded on, but do we humble ourselves. Do we look at what we are lacking in our own lives?
It is when we have seen our own shortcomings and our real needs that we can effectively pray. Notice that there are two parts to this demand, "pray and seek my face". It's not enough to just say prayers on a regular basis. We need to seek his face, attempt to see how He is looking at us, discover Him and what He wants from us.
Joined to that demand is another demand, "turn from their wicked ways". As we humble and pray we need to consider our lives and repent of those things that do not please Him. If you think about Israel's history, God occasionally allowed ungodly nations to defeat or take over Israel. Yes, these other nations were ungodly, but it is not their wickedness that was the focus of this demand. It was initially because of God's peoples' wickedness that He allowed this to happen. If some other nation or ideology is destroying our nation, we may need to first ask what we did to deserve it.
If this judgment on our nation was because of our wicked ways, what wicked ways do God's people need to turn away from? What do we need to repent from? How do our lives stray from His calling us to Himself? Are we living our lives to please ourselves. Are we more concerned about our financial security individually and as a nation? Are we too tolerant of evil in our own neighborhoods? Are we too cowardly to face those who would take our freedoms? And, are we too dependent of our government providing for us?
I think repentance is the first thing we need to focus on when we read 2 Chronicles 7:14. Is there something we need to repent of? If this promise to Israel does apply to us, and we do humble, pray, seek, and turn, God will first off forgive our sin. That is the most important consequence of repentance. A right relationship with God is more valuable than anything else. That is the message of the gospel that doesn't depend on the Chronicles passage. But if Chronicles does apply, following that God will heal our land. Even though things look hopeless in a world full of darkness, we can have hope and assurance that God will provide. He can change the world around us, or he can protect us from that world.
]]>Well, HALFWAY is one of many words that do not have blank anagrams. With a little effort and a lot of patience I created a list of 7 letter words that do not have blank anagrams. In addition to not being able to add a blank or floater on the board, all but three hundred of them do not have any other anagrams.
I am providing this link to the list for those who have expressed an interest.
noBA.txt - Words that do not have any blank anagrams
noABA.txt - Words that do not have any blank anagrams and have no other anagrams.
]]>This is the final post in the three part series on Scrabble Word Study using card boxes. This section illustrates how you would do some of the searches that you want to add to your card boxes. You may also want to just do these searches to become familiar with the Hoot search options. This lists the card box to add to but you may choose to use standard boxes, or lists instead of what is shown.
Search Type: Letter Count
Size: 2 letters
Add to: Lists > Anagrams, "Two Letter Words"
Search Type: Hook Words
Size: 2 letters
Add to: Lists > Hooks, "Two Letter Hooks"
Hooks help you to identify places where you can add a letter to a word while forming your own word in the other direction. Hooked threes is another way to study all the "words" formed by adding a hook to a two letter word.
Search Type: Predefined > Hooked Words
Size: 3 letters
Add to: Anagrams
Search Type: Pattern > *[JQXZ]*
Size: 3 letters to 5 letters
Add to: Anagrams
Search Type: Predefined > Q not U
Size: 2 letters to 7 letters
Add to: Anagrams
Search Type: Pattern > *[VC]*
Size: 3 letters to 5 letters
Add to: Anagrams
There are two possible ways to study stems in Hoot. You can create a card box with all the anagrams of the term + blank, and you would have up to 26 cards. These are added to Lists so you can determine if you have mastered the stem in question. You can alternately just add them to the standard Anagrams card box.
Search Type: Stems, Top 6 Letter > Search
Order by: Alphagram
Tap on TISANE
Add to: Anagrams
or
Search Type: Anagrams > "TISANE?"
Size: 7 letters
Order: Alphagram descending
Add to: Lists > Anagrams, "Stem TISANE"
Alternately, you can study stems as blank anagrams (not generally recommended). This gives you one card for each stem with all the possible words. For TISANE, that would be 96 words.
Search Type: Pattern > "TISANE"
Add to: Blank Anagrams
Search Type: Predefined > Vowel Heavy
Size: 3 letters to 5 letters
Add to: Anagrams
High Fives are five letter words ending in a high point tile (FHYW). While the words are selected based on whether they begin or end in a high point tile, the query will be for all anagrams. If you want to focus just on the High Fives you could use the slide show to study instead of a quiz. Alternately, you could quiz in flashcard mode and mark the words as correct if you know the High Fives
Search Type: Predefined > High Fives
Add to: Anagrams
High Eights are terms that you may be able to play in one of the corners for big points if your play covers both TWS, and the high point tile is on the DLS. For example, ADEQUATE could net you over 300 points.
Search Type: Pattern > (???[JQXZ]*)|(????[JQXZ]*)
Size: 8 letters
Add to: Lists > Anagrams, "High Eights"
Admittedly, getting to play one of these is a long shot, but it doesn't hurt to learn some of these words. Replace JQXZ with 45 to learn
Some people advise learning sevens from a set of letters like STARLINE?. You may want to use other terms.
Search Type: Word Builder, "STARLINE?"
Size: 7 letters
Add to: Lists > Anagrams, "STARLINE? Sevens"
I often see recommendations to study words with double I's or double U's, either separate or together. An expanded version of this recommendation from Art Chester is to study double letters for each letter in CHIKUVWY. You can do this in Hoot with
Search Type: Pattern, *([CHIKUVWY])*\1*
Size: 3 - 5 letters
Add to: Lists > Anagrams, "Double Difficult"
You can also study each letter separately with *(I)*\1*
If you want to study just words with double letters together take out the middle asterisk and try
*([CHIKUVWY])\1*
or *(I)\1 for individual letters. Note that there are some letters that are never repeated together.
Before you get too far in your study you will probably want to check out the card box related settings. One of the newest ones is Flashcard mode. In this mode, you don't have to enter you answers. Instead you answer them mentally, tap on the list to see the correct answers. Then swipe up if correct, down if incorrect. To enable this Enable Flashcard mode.
Other settings are
Auto advance - advances to the next question automatically after a brief pause.
Custom keyboard - This will show a keyboard with only valid Scrabble tiles.
Loop - At the end of a list, advances to the first item.
Screen on - If using slides, keeps the screen on.
Show hooks in quizzes - Shows the hook letters before and after each word in the list.
Card box databases exist in subfolders based on lexicon, and most can be copied to other devices. One reason you would want to that is to manipulate them. The locations are fixed, so you may want to backup existing databases before copying.
In the Hoot app, Card boxes are located in Documents\Cards\<lexicon>\<type>.db
For example Anagrams in CSW19 are at Documents\Cards\CSW19\Anagrams.db
In all cases, the name and location determines what type they are. A database named Anagrams.db in the CSW19 folder represent anagrams in the Collins lexicon. Except for lists, Hoot card box databases are compatible with Zyzzyva, and the storage location follows the same pattern as Zyzzyva so you could copy one from there.
Current paths to Card box files
Hoot desktop path - based on the User Folder selected by the user. <UserFolder>\Cards\<lexicon>, typically C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Hoot\Cards\<lexicon>
Zyzzyva path - C:\Users\<user>\Zyzzyva\quiz\data\<lexicon>\
Collins Zyzzyva - C:\Users\<user>\.collinszyzzyva\quiz\data\<lexicon>\
With the update of devices to Android 11, the freedom that Hoot has to access storage is limited. With new installations on Android 11 you don't have access to the card box databases in Hoot, so you can neither upload or download databases. Of course, this restriction doesn't apply to the desktop version of Hoot. Under Android 11, the lexicon and card box databases are stored internally and removed when the app is removed.
When updated lexicons are released, it is also possible to copy a card box to a new lexicon folder and you'll be tested on the anagrams in the new lexicon. However, new anagrams may not exist in the card box for new words. For example, there are four 3 letter words in CSW19 that don't have anagrams in CSW15.
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