After almost 5 months of super intense, daily work on half a dozen apps and algorithms (for being able to use Chinese Pinyin, to write and read in Pinyin, to work with text written in Pinyin, and to transcribe Hanzi to Pinyin) I’m kinda burned out.

Now I’m actually using my half finished software suite with its half finished apps, mainly for reading and transcribing text from Chinese characters into Chinese Pinyin. I’m quite enjoying it. I’m reading 3 books in parallel!

The only new thing I did on the software side, I added an (optional) function to completely remove the Chinese characters from the transcription table in my transcription software. This was unexpected, but a big relief. I kinda enjoyed the Chinese Characters on the tiles, but once they were gone… SO MUCH BETTER! It just feels and looks so much lighter, and cleaner.

The main screen seems to be quite well designed now, too:

Oh, and I added a dark mode, now that I actually use my own software for transcription, and sometimes late into the evenings:

However, there’s quite a few adjustments I still need to make. I guess it will cost me two full days to get the main screen finished. And then I can finally work on adding more rules, like formatting of proper nouns, or adding an alternative, better pos tag system.

But at the moment, I don’t have that in me anymore. I’m exhausted. Now I’ll continue reading, and transcribing. Wish you a good day, and all the best with your own projects!