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MYC is an app for displaying, reading, and memorizing poems, ballads, epic poems 😎, verse epics, and longer lyrical texts.

It is optimized for

• memorizing by displaying in one screen:
  • the current stanza,
  • the last two lines of the previous stanza, and
  • the next two lines of the upcoming stanza.

Other features for minimizing friction:

• Text ID system (poem ID) for quick access via QuickDraw
• Import and bulk import function for prepared text files with easy human readable syntax (Bulk Importing Texts)
• Easy change of order and numbering

Everything is hosted locally on your personal device. Your data are yours.

• You click the big red button
  • In the next screen (Poem collection), you can select the poem you want to read/memorize
    • In the display screens you navigate by tapping on the right or left half of the screen. You exit the screen by default androidback behaviour (like swipe from the edge)
  • When you just installed the app you need to add poems
    • If you tap the ＋ symbol in the lower left you will be taken to the next screen where you can enter author, title, year, and "paste the content". When finished just tap the big red save button. The poem will be assigned a number that can be changed later in the process.
    • (you navigate between screens by default android back behaviour)
    • You can also import prepared text files by tapping the import icon (that is the square with the arrow that points into the square). You will be taken to the file picker.
      • Syntax of import files is simple (Bulk Importing Texts)
      • The app detects automatically if it is one or more poems. If it's more than one poem, they will be assigned consecutive IDs
  • If you want to change numbers of the poems, you press the 123 icon in the lower right corner, it will take you to the first poem
    • Just enter any new 3 digit ID, you will automatically be taken to the next one.
    • tap "Enter", or minimize your keyboard,
    • (you can choose any other poem to alter Poem ID while in this mode)
    • tap the 123 icon again to finalize the ID's

You can use the prepared files of classic texts (in the public domain) to get started with.

• Max und Moritz by Wilhelm Busch
• An die Freude by Friedrich Schiller
• Ode to Joy by Friedrich Schiller

By default included in the app are also:

• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• Der Handschuh by Friedrich Schiller
• Der Zauberlehrling by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Texts can be imported one at a time or in bulk. The file format is simple:

Syntax:

AuthorTitle Year the content the content the content ---Author of 2nd poemTitle of 2nd poemYear of 2nd poem the content the content the content--- (further poems ...)

Example:

Schiller  Der Handschuh  1850Vor seinem Löwengarten,  Das Kampfspiel zu erwarten,  Saß König Franz,  Und um ihn die Großen der Krone,  Und rings auf hohem Balkone  Die Damen in schönem Kranz.(...)---Goethe  Der Zauberlehrling  1797Hat der alte Hexenmeister  sich doch einmal wegbegeben!  Und nun sollen seine Geister  auch nach meinem Willen leben.  Seine Wort' und Werke  Merkt ich und den Brauch,  und mit Geistesstärke  tu ich Wunder auch.(...)

This project is licensed under theGNU General Public License (GPL). See theLICENSE file for details.

Created with ❤️ byValentin