[Improvement] Add new personal dictionary entries

[ShiroiKuma0]

I'd like to be able to add new dictionary entries for – usually – technical terms one might search for, that are not included in any of the dictionaries.

For instance some time ago I was searching for “CRO”, i.e. Chief Risk Officer – quite a common corporate term – however non even in the financial dictionaries. Through web searches was able to determine that it's mostly used in Japan as 最高リスク責任者 so would like to add this as a dictionary entry so that when I search for it again, I'd see it.

[topherbuckley]

@mvysny does the JMDict or other dictionaries used by the app have any sort of git repo or the like where users can contribute new entries? I wonder if it would be better to add such new entries to ongoing dictionary projects like JMDict rather than everyone making their own custom local entries (I can see the benefit of both, but I think it would be nice if aedict users could potentially contribute to the betterment of dictionaries like JMDict).

[topherbuckley]

Looks like JMDict has an online interface for adding entries:

and looking at the fine print at the bottom, there is documentation about a python API for accessing the Postgresql DB. Looks like everything is hosted on gitlab

Not sure how much work this would entail to integrate into Aedict, but just an idea.

[mvysny]

Thank you everyone, and sorry for a late reply.

@topherbuckley Hmm, adding entries to JMDict directly is a very specialized operation which only a few users would use; also typing the new entry would feel much more comfortable from a device with a keyboard and a bigger screen, rather than from a mobile phone. Therefore I'd propose to not to implement this feature into Aedict; however we can add a web link to the online interface from Aedict. If you agree, please let me know what would be the best place in Aedict for the link.

@ShiroiKuma0 perhaps we can start by allowing you to create custom entries in your Notepad - perhaps you could create a special category for such entries. This way you will have visibility of all entries you've created; later I'll think of a way on how to perform search in Notepad categories. What do you think?

[ShiroiKuma0]

This for sure – I think that's usable.

The key really would be to make notepad entries searchable – so that the results would be returned when searching in the search interface.

But as a start just storing of individual entries would be great – that way you could create your professional lists you need – I often search for financial specific terms which might be peculiar and not in the Finance dictionary.