Vocabulary tracking

VocabSieve has a built-in feature to track your vocabulary. This is done by logging events on words, each of which carries a certain amount of points. When a certain amount of points are reached, the word is classified as known.

By default, 100 points is needed for a non-cognate word to be classified as known (25 points for cognate word) the points on each type of event (weights) are the following:

Event	Default score	Note
Seen	8	Paper assumes 12 exposures is needed to acquire a word
Lookup	15	Max one lookup event per day
Mature Anki card target word	80
Mature Anki card context	30
Young Anki card target word	40	VocabSieve distinguishes between two types of Anki cards, which by default correspond to “mature” and “young” carrds in Anki, but this can be changed to arbitariy criteria by changing the query string
Young Anki card context	20

Using Anki data requires matching fields in each of your Anki note types. You should mark the field as “<Ignored>” if you do not wish to use the field or the note type as a whole.

Once you have set up vocabulary tracking, you can view a list of words VocabSieve thinks you know by going to Statistics -> Known words tab. After ensuring that you know almost all of the words listed in the text box, you can now use the features relying on vocab tracking, such as the book analyzer and auto imports from texts.

Importing content

To tell VocabSieve what you’ve read/watched/listened to, you need to import the files into the database by using Track -> Content Manager. You can import ebooks, text files, and subtitles this way.

Manual marking

If you have a lemmatized frequency list, you can also manually mark words off the list using Track -> Mark words from frequency list.

Clicking on a word toggles its known status.

Green background: Known

Red border: Manually marked as unknown

Bolded score: Modifier is set (manually marked as known or unknown)