Star words as favorites
Favorites are for the entries you want one tap away — words you keep forgetting, beautiful expressions, anything you’d want to drill outside the normal review schedule.
Under the hood, Favorites is a special always-available wordbook that’s managed for you, but in the UI it shows up as the star icon (★) instead of a wordbook chip.
Star a single entry
Two places:
- From the entry detail screen: the AppBar has a star icon. Tooltip “Add to favorites” / “Remove from favorites”. Tap to toggle.
- From the vocabulary list: every row has a smaller star at the right edge. Same tooltips, same toggle.
Filled star = favorited. Outlined star = not.
Star many entries at once
In the Vocabulary list, long-press an entry to enter selection mode, tap more entries to add them, then tap the star icon in the AppBar.
The icon is smart about the selection:
- If any of the selected entries are not favorited, the icon is hollow and the tooltip reads “Favorite selected” — tapping favorites them all.
- If all are already favorited, the icon is filled and the tooltip reads “Unfavorite selected” — tapping unfavorites them all.
See only your favorites
In the Vocabulary tab:
- Tap Filters & sort, then Filter by wordbook.
- Near the top of the menu, pick ★ Favorites (count).
The list now shows only your favorited entries. Start Flashcards in the AppBar will review just that subset — useful for a quick refresh of your hardest words.
To clear the favorites filter, open the same menu and pick All wordbooks.
When to use favorites vs tags vs wordbooks
- Favorites — your personal “watch list.” Quick, single concept, one tap.
- Tags — cross-cutting attributes you might want to filter on. grammar:verb, theme:cooking. See Using tags.
- Wordbooks — coherent groupings tied to real-life context. “Tokyo trip”, “chapter 3”. See Using wordbooks.
Use them in combination — there’s no exclusivity.