s0200311 wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021 18:07
I am a student who is on a chromebook so I cannot use excel, sadly. I would use google sheets, but it lacks some of the capabilities I want: Search bars that will take out the rows that do not include search terms, something dictionary like? I don't know. I just know I cannot use sheets.
I am new here. I have attempted inventing 3 languages before, but without an accurate database I have failed.
These days I only do plain text files, using a good text editor (say, Notepad++ on Windows), if you can believe it. I just use "punctuation" (well, markup) that makes searching easier. For example:
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:: mbil ;;
vi. <brag>, <boast> [ne: about something]
vi. <be content> [ne: with one's own efforts]
{speech}{value}
This way, if I want to search a meaning, I just use Ctrl+F with the kind of word I'd use in a gloss, so, <brag>. And I also try to tag words for semantic fields, in this case {speech} (referring to speech acts, like "conversation", "yell") and {value} (referring to words involving evaluation, like "love" and "dislike"). "[ne:" here means that the following information inside the brackets is added with the preposition "ne".
With the double colon and semicolon surrounding the headword, I can also search for words beginning or ending in a certain sound, say, if I want all words ending in -il, I just do a search for "il ;;".
I don't know what text editors you have access to in a Chromebook. In theory you could do it in Google Docs though, but text editors are nicer due to being faster at what they do, as opposed to a full-blown very visual document editor. EDIT:
This article gives 10 text editors you can install in it.