Auto-add to a wordbook while capturing
If you’re working on a single batch of vocabulary — say a chapter of a book, a restaurant menu, or one episode’s worth of subtitles — set a target wordbook before you start capturing. Every word you save will land there automatically, with no extra taps.
Set the target wordbook
On the Capture screen (the one with the big Take photo and Choose from gallery buttons):
- Tap the small round bookmark button below the two main buttons. The tooltip reads “Capture into a wordbook”.
- Pick an existing wordbook from the list, or create a new one on the spot.
- A pill appears above the main buttons: “Collecting to wordbook: [name]”. That’s your confirmation — every save from this point lands in that wordbook.
The bookmark icon also changes from outline to filled-style, and its tooltip switches to “Capturing into a wordbook”, so you can tell at a glance even without the pill.
How saves work while it’s active
While the wordbook is set, anything you save from the OCR result screen (tap-to-translate, then Save) goes straight into that wordbook. You don’t have to pick the wordbook each time.
You can still add an entry to additional wordbooks from the entry’s detail screen — the active one is the default, not the only choice.
Turn it off
Tap the X on the “Collecting to wordbook” pill. The pill disappears and saves go back to being unassigned (you can still add them to wordbooks manually after the fact).
A note about the camera screen
If you open the camera and have an active capture wordbook set, the same bookmark button is visible at the top — but greyed out. This is on purpose: changing the target mid-capture would be confusing. Finish or cancel the current camera session first, then change it on the Capture screen.