Texts

Version 1.2.0 adds the ability to import and read web content in your target language (requires at least iOS 13). This example will show how to import an interview with the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges published in the Spanish newspaper El País into motî.

🎥 Video version

Safari

Open Safari and load the page you want to import.

Borges en su casa

This is Borges en su casa, an interview with the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges published in the Spanish newspaper El País.

Share

Open the Share menu.

Read in motî

Select “Read in motî” at the bottom of the provided list of options.

Open in motî

The preview contains a summary of the article, correctly detected as español, with the option to change it if needed.

From the preview, you can either decide to open the page directly in motî, or save it for later reading.

Open in motî

Let's open it directly.

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👌🏼

Looks like the text was imported successfully.

¿huella?

…a dejar una huella profunda en la literatura…

huella

A preview pops up with definitions.

1. footprint
2. fingerprint

So, to leave a profound footprint in literature

huella

Tapping on the preview opens the full entry.

puñando

puñando

1. a handful
2. a lot

Graciela Borges

Graciela Borges

Not in the dictionary, but luckily there's Wikipedia!

Wikipedia

The Wikipedia app opens if installed, or a plain WebView as fallback.

Offline

All imported texts are stored on the device, and can be read later.

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Import

Safari

Open Safari, and navigate to the article you want to import.

Open the share menu, towards the bottom of the options you’ll see the action “Read in motî”.

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Action

On the next screen, you’ll find a summary of the content, and you’ll notice that the language was correctly detected as Spanish, with the option to override it if needed.

From the preview, you can either decide to open the page directly in motî, or save it for later reading.

“Open in motî” opens the text content of the article. With an installed Spanish dictionary you will get context menus revealing more information and actions when long-pressing words in the article.

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Context menus

For example, selecting (long-pressing) huella will reveal this contextual preview, with the first three definitions as provided by Wiktionary.

Tapping on the preview opens the complete dictionary entry with all lexicographic details.

Alternatively, use “Select Context” to automatically select the sentence the highlighted word is part of, or “Add to Anki” to directly create a card in the AnkiMobile app, provided it is installed on your device.

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Proper nouns, such as names of individuals or organisations are often not included in a dictionary. In these cases motî will try to find a corresponding article in Wikipedia and link to it from the context menu. In this example it shows the Wikipedia entry of the Argentinian actress Graciela Borges mentioned in the article.